Erich Muehlegger

Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Kennedy School
Office Address
Littauer-116
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 25
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-7735
Email: Erich_Muehlegger@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Kate Mikels (617-496-0290)
Erich Muehlegger

Profile

Erich Muehlegger is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy, the faculty chair of the Regulatory Policy Program, and a fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and the Harvard 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 environmental 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 research studied market impacts of state and local environmental regulation of gasoline content.

 

Courses

Fall

  • API-105 Markets and Market Failure with Cases
  • API-201 Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods
  • BGP-200 Strategy, Competition, and Regulation

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Research

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

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Doyle, Joseph J., Erich J. Muehlegger, and Krislert Samphantharak. "Edgeworth Cycles Revisited." National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, NBER Working Papers 14162, July 2008.
    • Chiou, Lesley, and Erich J. Muehlegger. "Crossing the Line: The Effect of Cross Border Cigarette Sales on State Excise Tax Revenues." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-012, February 2008.
    • Gallagher, Kelly Sims, and Erich J. Muehlegger. "Giving Green to Get Green: Incentives and Consumer Adoption of Hybrid Vehicle Technology." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-009, February 2008.