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Christopher Knittel is the Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Prior to MIT Sloan, Knittel taught at the University of California, Davis, and at Boston University. His research focuses on industrial organization, environmental economics, and applied econometrics.
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.
Knittel holds a BA in economics and political science from California State University, Stanislaus; an MA in economics from the University of California, Davis; and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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"Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use."
Knittel, Christopher R., and Samuel Stolper. The Economic Journal. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper.
"Assessing the Distribution of Employment Vulnerability to the Energy Transition Using Employment Carbon Footprints."
Graham, Kailin and Christopher Knittel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 121, No. 7 (2024).
"Designing Climate Policy Mixes: Analytical and Energy System Modeling Approaches."
Dimanchev, Emil and Christopher R. Knittel. Energy Economics Vol. 122, (2023): 106697. SSRN Preprint.
"An Economic Analysis of the Self-Preferencing Debate."
Caminade, Juliette, Juan Carvajal, and Christopher R. Knittel. Competition Vol. 32, No. 2 (2022): 30-43.
"Exporting Global Warming? Coal Trade and the Shale Gas Boom."
Knittel, Christopher R., Konstantinos Metaxoglou, Anson Soderbery, and Andres Trindade. The Canadian Journal of Economics Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022): 1294-1333. CEEPR Working Paper.
"The Role of Output Reallocation and Investment in Coordinating Externality Markets."
Abito, Miguel, Christopher R. Knittel, Konstantinos Metaxoglou, and Andre Trindade. The International Journal of Industrial Organization Vol. 83, (2022): 102843.
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