JOURNAL ARTICLES

Bringing rigour to energy innovation policy evaluation, with Cameron Hepburn and Niall Farrell, 2020. Nature Energy, 5, p. 284-290. Available without a paywall here.

Information Searching in the Residential Solar PV Market, with Harrison Fell and Ben Sigrin, 2020. The Energy Journal.

Pass-Through as a Test for Market Power: An Application to Solar Subsidies, with Arthur van Benthem, 2019. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(4), p. 367-401 (previously NBER Working Paper No. 23260).

Addressing the soft cost challenge in U.S. small-scale solar PV system pricing, with Eric O’Shaughnessy, Greg Nemet, and Robert Margolis, 2019. Energy Policy, 134.

Encouraging Innovation that Protects Environmental Systems: Five Policy Proposals, with Cameron Hepburn and David Popp, 2018. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 12(1), Winter, p. 154-169.

How to Make Your Post-Merger Reorg a Success, with Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood, 2018. Harvard Business Review [online article only]

Solar photovoltaic self-consumption in the UK residential sector: new estimates from a smart grid demonstration project, with Eoghan McKenna and Sarah Darby, 2018. Energy Policy118, p. 482-491.

Bribes, Bureaucracies, and Blackouts: Towards Understanding How Firm-Level Corrupt Behavior Impacts Electricity Reliability, with Harrison Fell, 2017. Resource and Energy Economics, 47, 36-55. Coverage: Selected for “Research Highlights” in Nature Energy. Finalist for IAEE Best Student Paper Award (2014).

Quantifying the value of investing in distributed natural gas and renewable electricity systems as complements: Applications of discounted cash flow and real options analysis with stochastic inputs, with Doug Arent, Jeffrey Logan, Jaquelin Cochran, and Owen Zinaman, 2016.  Energy Policy, 97, p. 378-390.

Diffusion into new markets: Evolving customer segments in the solar photovoltaics market, with Ben Sigrin and Easan Drury, 2015. Environmental Research Letters, 10(8).

Implications of high renewable electricity penetration in the U.S. for water use, greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, and materials supply, with D. Arent, T. Mai, R. Wiser, M. Hand, S. Baldwin, G. Heath, J. Macknick, M. Bazilian, A. Schlosser, and P. Denholm, 2014. Applied Energy123, p. 368-377.

Shale Gas in China: Prospects, Concerns, and Potential International Collaboration , with M. Bazilian, A. Pedersen, J. Logan, K. Medlock, F. O’Sullivan, and J. Nakano, 2013. Intl. Shale Gas & Oil Journal.

CHAPTERS

To Starve or to Stoke? Understanding Whether Divestment vs. Investment Can Steer (Green) Innovation, 2023. In NBER’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 2, eds. Ben Jones and Josh Lerner, University of Chicago Press [NBER working paper]

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Energy Sector with David Popp, Ivan Hascic, and Nick Johnstone, 2022. In NBER’s The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, eds. Michael J. Andrews, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, University of Chicago Press.