University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Contact Haas
 

Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory
Catherine Wolfram Catherine Wolfram

Associate Professor
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation
Barbara & Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
1-510-642-2588
Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address
Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment
Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/wolfram/
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/eap/, http://ceei.berkeley.edu/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

 

Education

  • A.B., Economics, Harvard University
  • Ph.D., Economics, MIT

 

Positions Held

At Haas since 2000
2008-present Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation
2006-present Affiliated Faculty, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
2005-present Associate Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business
1997-2006 Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
2000-2005 Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business
1996-2000 Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University

 

External Service and Assignments

  • Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Board of Editors, The Energy Journal
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics

 

Selected Papers and Publications

  • "Do Markets Reduce Costs? Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Restructuring on U.S. Electric Generation Efficiency" with Kira Fabrizio and Nancy Rose, American Economic Review, forthcoming.
  • "Inefficiencies and Market Power in Financial Arbitrage: A Study of California?s Electricity Markets," with Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell, and Christopher Knittel, Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming.
  • "Coordinating on Lower Prices: Pharmaceutical Pricing under Political Pressure," with Sara Fisher Ellison, RAND Journal of Economics, 2006, Vol. 37 (Summer): 325-341.
  • "Regulating Executive Pay: Using the Tax Code to Influence Chief Executive Officer Compensation," with Nancy L. Rose, Journal of Labor Economics, 2002, Vol. 20 (April): S138-S175.
  • "Why Do Manufacturers Issue Coupons? An Empirical Analysis of Breakfast Cereals," with Aviv Nevo, RAND Journal of Economics, 2002, Vol. 33 (Summer): 319-339.
  • "Has the "Million-Dollar Cap" Affected CEO Pay?" with Nancy Rose, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2000, Vol. 90 (May): 197-202.

 

Honors and Awards

  • Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Evening MBA Program, 2008
  • Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
  • Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, EWMBA Program, 2006
  • Americal Statistical Association / Energy Information Administration Research Fellow, 2004
  • National Science Foundation Award for Beginning Academics, 1999
  • American Compensation Association Emerging Scholar Program, 1997
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1995

More Info

Problems? Contact wwwathaas.berkeley.edu
Faculty Directory: Alphabetical Listing
Faculty Directory: Listing by Department

Top of page

Maintained by Haas School Marketing and Communications Office. Faculty members can contact us to update the page.