Erich Muehlegger

Associate Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School,
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Office Address
Taubman-342
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 6
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-7735
Email: Erich_Muehlegger@harvard.edu
Assistant
Rosita Scarfo (617-496-1739)
Erich Muehlegger

Profile

Erich Muehlegger is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a fellow of the National Bureau of Economics Research, the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and the Harard University Center for the Environment. His research interests include industrial organization, economic regulation, and environmental policy. One set of ongoing research projects study the effect of regulation on illegal activity including estimating the effects of regulatory innovation on fuel tax evasion and modeling cross-border cigarette excise tax avoidance. A second set of projects focus on environment regulation of energy industries, including estimating consumer preferences for fuel economy, simulating automaker response to fuel economy regulation, and estimating the relative efficacy of different hybrid vehicle incentives. He received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, where his resesarch studied market impacts of state and local environmental regulation of gasoline content.

Courses

Fall

  • API-201-C Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods
  • BGP-200 Strategy, Competition, and Regulation

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journal/Scholarly Articles
    • Lin, C.-Y. Cynthia, and Erich J. Muehlegger. "On the Use of Heuristics to Approximate Competitors’ Private Information." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 86 (February 2013): 10-23.