Research Interests:
International political economy; the Russian energy sector
Faculty
Philippe Aghion
FAS
Research Interests:
Links between growth and market structure; combining theory and microeconometric analysis; contracts, including contracts in natural resources
William Alford
HLS
Research Interests:
Chinese law and legal history; legal aspects of international trade and technology transfer
Graham Allison
HKS
Research Interests:
U.S. national security and defense policy; security aspects of energy and environmental issues
George Baker
HBS
Research Interests:
Management incentives; leveraged buyouts; organizational economics; relationship between a firm's ownership structure and its management
Ashley Brown
HKS
Research Interests:
Alternative strategies for the transition to a more competitive U.S. electricity market
Matthew Bunn
HKS
Research Interests:
Nuclear theft and terrorism; nuclear proliferation and measures to control it; and the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle
William Clark
HKS
Research Interests:
Interactions of environment, development and security concerns in international affairs, special emphasis on the role of science and technology
Richard Cooper
FAS
Research Interests:
International economic policy; economic stabilization and debt in developing countries; international approaches to climate change; carbon taxes; China
Rafael Di Tella
HBS
Research Interests:
Institutional development; role of beliefs in economic organization; capitalism and poor countries
Alison Frank
FAS
Research Interests:
Social history, economic development, and environmental change; environmental history of the Adriatic and of the Alps; the history of the oil industry
Jeffrey Frankel
HKS
Research Interests:
International finance, monetary policy, regional blocs, trade, commodities, climate change policy, and international environmental issues
Jody Freeman
HLS
Research Interests:
The design of governance institutions, regulatory tools and decision making procedures; climate related institutional design
Edward Glaeser
HKS
Research Interests:
Urban and social economics; microeconomic theory; green cities
Jerry Green
HBS
Research Interests:
Economics of incentives, principles of equity for use in collective decision making and the use of data on choice to evaluate economic well-being
James Hammitt
HSPH
Research Interests:
Management of long-term environmental issues with important scientific uncertainties, such as global climate change and stratospheric-ozone depletion; characterization of social preferences over health and environmental risks
Ricardo Hausmann
HKS
Research Interests:
Issues of growth, macroeconomicstability, international finance, and the social dimensions ofdevelopment
William Hogan
HKS
Research Interests:
Designing the market structures and market rules by which regional transmission organizations, in various forms, coordinate bid-based markets for energy, ancillary services, and financial transmission rights
John Holdren
HKS
Research Interests:
Energy and resource options in industrial and developing countries, global environmental problems, impacts of population growth, and international security and arms control
Sheila Jasanoff
HKS
Research Interests:
Science and the courts; environmental regulation and risk management; comparative public policy; social studies of science and technology; science and technology policy
Dale Jorgenson
HKS, FAS
Research Interests:
Information technology and economic growth, energy and environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics
Calestous Juma
HKS
Research Interests:
Biodiversity and sustainable development; science and technology policy
Jerold Kayden
HKS, GSD
Research Interests:
Law and the built environment; public-private urban development
Robert Lawrence
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Interests:
Trade policy; the global biofuels industry.
Henry Lee
HKS
Research Interests:
Electricity and water privatization, environmental management, global climate change, and the political economy of energy
Jonathan Levy
HSPH
Research Interests:
Development of models to quantitatively assess the environmental and health impacts of air pollution from local to national scales, with a focus on urban environments
Noel Maurer
Harvard Business School
Research Interests:
How governments protect (or fail to protect) property rights, and how private actors can defend their property rights against predatory governments or in the fact of political instability. Teaching includes a course on the politics and economics of the energy business.
Michael McElroy
SEAS, FAS
Research Interests:
Chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, including interactions with the biosphere; evolution of planetary atmospheres; global carbon cycle
Erich Muehlegger
HKS
Research Interests:
Industrial organization; economic regulation; and environmental policy
Felix Oberholzer-Gee
HBS
Research Interests:
Competitive strategy, international competition, and non-market strategy; wind power
Ariel Pakes
FAS
Research Interests:
Industrial organization, the economics of technological change, econometric theory; equilibrium responses to policy and environmental changes; hedonic cost functions for automobiles
Theodore Panayotou
HKS
Research Interests:
Natural resource management; environmental economics as they relate to economic development
Forest Reinhardt
HBS
Research Interests:
Relationships between market and non-market strategy; the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources; the economics of externalities and public goods
Peter Rogers
SEAS
Research Interests:
Consequences of population on natural resources development; conflict
resolution in international river basins; impact of global change on water
resources; development of indices of environmental quality and
sustainable development
Daniel Schrag
FAS, SEAS
Research Interests:
Geochemical oceanography; stable isotope geochemistry; paleoclimatology; climate change; carbon sequestration; energy technology
John Spengler
HSPH
Research Interests:
Pollutants/contaminants in indoor and outdoor environments; improving air quality for the design of healthier housing
Robert N. Stavins
HKS
Research Interests:
Environmental economics, natural resource economics, and related public policy; innovation and diffusion of technology; market-based strategies for future climate policy; international climate agreements
Matthew Stephenson
HLS
Research Interests:
Administrative and environmental laws; public regulation, agencies and courts
Cass Sunstein
HLS
Research Interests:
Administrative law, Behavioral law and economics, Constitutional law, Environmental law, Labor and employment law
Michael Toffel
HBS
Research Interests:
Corporate environmental management, environmental policy, and information disclosure policy and strategy.
Richard Vietor
HBS
Research Interests:
International energy issues; regulation of natural gas, nuclear power,
air pollution and hazardous wastes; strategy and deregulation in
airlines, railroads, telecommunications; financial services
Martin Weitzman
FAS
Research Interests:
Environmental and natural resource economics, green accounting, economics of biodiversity
Richard Zeckhauser
HKS
Research Interests:
Performance of institutions confronted with inadequate commitment capabilities, incomplete information flow and human participants who fail to behave in accordance with models of rationality
