Catherine Wolfram
Associate Professor - University of California Berkeley
Catherine Wolfram is an associate professor of business administration at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and co-director of the Energy Institute at Haas. She is also a researcher at the UC Energy Institute, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliated faculty member in the Agriculture and Resource Economics department and the Energy and Resources Group at Berkeley. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and on the editorial board of the Energy Journal, the Economics Journal and the Journal of Industrial Economics.
Wolfram has published extensively on the economics of energy markets. She has studied electricity industry privatization and restructuring around the world, assessing the performance of competitive wholesale electricity markets and the effects of restructuring on generation efficiency. Her recent work considers the effects of environmental regulation, including climate change mitigation policies, on the energy sector.
She received a PhD in economics from MIT in 1996 and an AB from Harvard in 1989. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was an assistant professor of economics at Harvard.
