Inventing New Policy Approaches
Professor Knittel is the George P. Shultz Professor and Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He also serves as the Sloan's Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability and directs the MIT Climate Policy Center and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR).
School:
MIT Sloan
Academic Groups & Centers:
Applied Economics
MIT Climate Policy Center
MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)
Personal website:
Knittel World
MIT News:
The changing geography of “energy poverty”
MIT researchers map the energy transition’s effects on jobs
Tracking US progress on the path to a decarbonized economy
Bridging the gap between academia and policy: MIT’s new Climate Policy Center (video)
Short bio:
Christopher Knittel's research focuses on industrial organization, environmental economics, and applied econometrics. He has produced high-impact research in multiple areas; his studies on emissions and the automobile industry have evaluated fuel-efficiency standards, changes in vehicle fuel efficiency, market responses to fuel-price changes, and the health impact of automobiles. Beyond that, Knittel has also studied the impact of the energy transition on jobs, conducted high-level evaluations of climate policies, and examined energy market structures.
Knittel is an associate editor of The American Economic Journal— Economic Policy, The Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Journal of Energy Markets. His research has appeared in The American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Industrial Economics, The Energy Journal, and other academic journals. He also is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Productivity, Industrial Organization, and Energy and Environmental Economics groups.
He joined the MIT faculty in 2011. He also serves as the director of the MIT Climate Policy Center, which will work closely with all six missions.