Paper List
Working Papers are listed by year and numbered sequentially. You can view an abstract for any paper by clicking on the Abstract link. You can also download an electronic copy of the full paper by clicking on the PDF link.
Please note: The most recent Working Papers are only accessible to CEEPR Associates who have logged in with their login credentials. Learn more about how to become a CEEPR Associate.
Publication Year
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
Advanced Search
Power Price Crisis in the EU: Unveiling Current Policy Responses and Proposing a Balanced Regulatory Remedy
Carlos Batlle, Tim Schittekatte, and Christopher R. Knittel, March 2022
Policies for Electrifying the Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet in the United States
Cassandra Cole, Michael Droste, Christopher R. Knittel, Shanjun Li, and James H. Stock, September 2021
Distributed Effects of Climate Policy: A Machine Learning Approach
Tomas W. Green and Christopher R. Knittel, September 2020
A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluating Renewable Energy Technology: An Alternative LACE Study on Solar Photo-Voltaic (PV)
Benny Siu Hon Ng, Christopher R. Knittel, and Caroline Uhler, December 2020
Trade-offs in Climate Policy: Combining Low-Carbon Standards with Modest Carbon Pricing
Emil G. Dimanchev and Christopher R. Knittel, November 2020
Distributional Effects of Net Metering Policies and Residential Solar Plus Behind-the-meter Storage Adoption
Andrés Inzunza and Christopher R. Knittel, October 2020
Quantifying the Distributional Impacts of Rooftop Solar PV Adoption Under Net Energy Metering
Scott P. Burger, Christopher R. Knittel, and Ignacio J. Pérez-Arriaga, September 2020
The Short-run and Long-run Effects of COVID-19 on Energy and the Environment
Kenneth T. Gillingham, Christopher R. Knittel, Jing Li, Marten Ovaere, and Mar Reguant, July 2020
Electrifying Transportation: Issues and Opportunities
Bentley C. Clinton, Christopher R. Knittel, Konstantinos Metaxoglou, June 2020
Abstract Full Paper [PDF] Research Brief Oil-Battery Price parity Too
What Does and Does Not Correlate with COVID-19 Death Rates
Christopher R. Knittel and Bora Ozaltun, June 2020
Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use
Christopher R. Knittel and Samuel Stolper, January 2020
Machine Learning for Solar Accessibility: Implications for Low-Income Solar Expansion and Profitability
Sruthi Davuluri, René García Franceschini, Christopher R. Knittel, Chikara Onda, and Kelly Roache, December 2019
Driving Behavior and the Price of Gasoline: Evidence from Fueling-Level Micro Data
Christopher R. Knittel and Shinsuke Tanaka, November 2019
Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Fuel-Economy Standards
Antonio M. Bento, Mark R. Jacobsen, Christopher R. Knittel, and Arthur A. van Benthem, September 2019
Diary of a Wimpy Carbon Tax: Carbon Taxes as Federal Climate Policy
Christopher R. Knittel, August 2020
Generational Trends in Vehicle Ownership and Use: Are Millennials Any Different?
Christopher R. Knittel and Elizabeth Murphy, April 2019
Machine Learning from Schools about Energy Efficiency
Fiona Burlig, Christopher R. Knittel, David Rapson, Mar Reguant, and Catherine Wolfram, February 2019
The Efficiency and Distributional Effects of Alternative Residential Electricity Rate Designs
Scott P. Burger, Christopher R. Knittel, Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga, Ian Schneider, and Frederik vom Scheidt, February 2019
Does the U.S. Export Global Warming? Coal Trade and the Shale Gas Boom
Christopher R. Knittel, Konstantinos Metaxoglou, Anson Soderbery, and André Trindade, September 2018
Coordinating Separate Markets for Externalities
Jose Miguel Abito, Christopher R. Knittel, Konstantinos Metaxoglou, and André Trindade, July 2018
Subsidizing Fuel Efficient Cars: Evidence from China’s Automobile Industry
Chia-Wen Chen, Wei-Min Hu, and Christopher R. Knittel, January 2018
The Use of Regression Statistics to Analyze Imperfect Pricing Policies
Mark R. Jacobsen, Christopher R. Knittel, James M. Sallee, and Arthur A. van Benthem, January 2018
Attribute Substitution in Household Vehicle Portfolios
James Archsmith, Kenneth Gillingham, Christopher R. Knittel, and David S. Rapson, September 2017
Are Consumers Poorly-Informed about Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments
Hunt Allcott and Christopher R. Knittel, March 2017
Are Fuel Economy Standards Regressive?
Lucas W. Davis and Christopher R. Knittel, December 2016
Running Randomized Field Experiments for Energy Efficiency Programs: A Practitioner’s Guide
Raina Gandhi, Christopher R. Knittel, Paula Pedro, and Catherine Wolfram, July 2016
Will We Ever Stop Using Fossil Fuels?
Thomas Covert, Michael Greenstone, and Christopher R. Knittel, February 2016
The Local Economic and Welfare Consequences of Hydraulic Fracturing
Alexander W. Bartik, Janet Curie, Michael Greenstone, and Christopher R. Knittel, February 2016
Natural Gas Prices and Coal Displacement: Evidence from Electricity Markets
Christopher R. Knittel, Konstantinos Metaxoglou, and André Trindade, October 2015
How do Carbon Emissions Respond to Business-Cycle Shocks?
Hashmat Khan, Christopher R. Knittel, Konstantinos Metaxoglou, and Maya Papineau, August 2015
The Pass-Through of RIN Prices to Wholesale and Retail Fuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard
Christopher R. Knittel, Ben S. Meiselman, and James H. Stock, July 2015
Strategic Policy Choice in State-Level Regulation: The EPA’s Clean Power Plan
James B. Bushnell, Stephen P. Holland, Jonathan E. Hughes, and Christopher R. Knittel, November 2014
The Welfare Impact of Indirect Pigouvian Taxation: Evidence from Transportation
Christopher R. Knittel and Ryan Sandler, February 2013
The Origin of US Transportation Policy: Was There Ever Support for Gasoline Taxes?
Christopher R. Knittel, January 2013
Did “Cash for Clunkers” Deliver? The Effects of the Car Allowance Rebate System
Meghan R. Busse, Christopher R. Knittel, Jorge Silva-Risso, and Florian Zettelmeyer, November 2012
Who is Exposed to Gas Prices? How Gasoline Prices Affect Automobile Manufacturers and Dealerships
Meghan R. Busse, Christopher R. Knittel, and Florian Zettelmeyer, November 2012
The Simple Economics of Commodity Price Speculation
Christopher R. Knittel and Robert S. Pindyck, April 2013
Ethanol Production and Gasoline Prices: A Spurious Correlation
Christopher R. Knittel and Aaron Smith, July 2012
Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation
Christopher R. Knittel, December 2011
Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies
Stephen P. Holland, Jonathan E. Hughes Christopher R. Knittel, Nathan C. Parker, August 2011
Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation
Christopher R. Knittel and Ryan Sandler, August 2011
Caution, Drivers! Children Present: Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health
Christopher R. Knittel, Douglas L. Miller, and Nicholas J. Sanders, July 2011
Research Commentary: Evaluating the Impact of the BIG WIRES Act
Audun Botterud, Christopher R. Knittel, John E. Parsons, and Juan Ramon L. Senga, January 2024
Research Commentary: FERC Order 2023: Will it Unplug the Bottleneck?
Les Armstrong, Alexa Canaan, Christopher R. Knittel, and Gilbert E. Metcalf, December 2023
Research Commentary: Comments on Draft Revisions to OMB Circulars A-4 and A-94
Paul Joskow, Christopher Knittel, Deborah Lucas, Gilbert Metcalf, John Parsons, Robert Pindyck, and Richard Schmalensee, July 2023