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| David Bloom David Bloom, Harvard School of Public Health David Bloom is a Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Bloom has published over 80 articles and books in the fields of economics and demography. He has been honored with a number of distinctions including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the Galbraith Award for quality teaching in economics. Professor Bloom's current research interests include labor economics, health, demography, and the environment. He has written extensively on the link between health status and economic growth; the consequences of population change on economic development; the emerging world labor market; the effects of rapid population growth; the economics of municipal solid waste; and the global spread and economic impacts of HIV and AIDS. E-mail Professor Bloom | |
| Richard Cooper Richard Cooper, Department of Economics Richard Cooper is the Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics in the Department of Economics. Professor Cooper’s primary research interests are in international economics, including both international trade and international monetary economics. His fundamental interest in the world economy leads to an interest in all environmental issues that require international cooperation to deal with effectively. His main focus in this regard is public policy toward global climate change as reflected in his recent working paper International Approaches to Global Climate Change. Professor Cooper teaches a new freshman seminar titled “Public Policy Approaches to Global Climate Change.” E-mail Professor Cooper | |
| Jeffrey Frankel Jeffrey Frankel, Kennedy School of Government Jeffrey Frankel is the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at the Kennedy School of Government. President Clinton appointed him to the Council of Economic Advisers in 1996. His responsibilities as Member included international economics, macroeconomics, and the environment. He left the Council in March 1999. He directs the National Bureau of Economic Research program in International Finance and Macroeconomics. Professor Frankel’s primary research interests are in the field of international economics. The two aspects of environmental economics in which he is most interested are the Kyoto protocols on global climate change, and the relationship between international trade and the environment. E-mail Professor Frankel | |
| Edward Glaeser Edward Glaeser, Department of Economics and Kennedy School of Government Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He is Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Director of the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston. He teaches urban and social economics and microeconomic theory. He has published dozens of papers on cities, economic growth, and law and economics. In particular, his work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. He also edits the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992. E-mail Professor Glaeser | |
| Jerry Green Jerry Green, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1970, chaired the Economics Department from 1984 to 1987, and served as Provost of the University from 1992 to 1994. Professor Green is a fellow of the Econometric Society and served on its council from 1988 to 1994. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1980, he received the J.K. Galbraith Prize for excellence in teaching. Professor Green is known for his work on the theories of incentives, rational expectations, and behavior under uncertainty. He has contributed to a number of areas in applied economics, including tax policy, finance, health economics, higher education, and patent policy. E-mail Professor Green | |
| James Hammitt James Hammitt, Harvard School of Public Health James Hammitt is Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences in the Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Hammitt's research concerns the development and application of quantitative methods—such as benefit-cost, decision, and risk analysis, game theory, and mathematical modeling—to health and environmental policy. Current topics include the management of long-term environmental issues with important scientific uncertainties, such as global climate change and stratospheric-ozone depletion, the evaluation of ancillary benefits and countervailing risks associated with risk-control measures, and the characterization of social preferences over health and environmental risks using revealed-preference and contingent-valuation methods. E-mail Professor Hammitt | |
| William Hogan William Hogan, Kennedy School of Government William Hogan is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Public Policy and Administration. Professor Hogan is research director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, which is exploring the issues involved in the transition to a more competitive electricity market. He serves as director of Graduate Studies for the Ph.D. in Public Policy and the Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government at the Kennedy School of Government. He has also served as chair of the Public Policy Program and as director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center. He is a director of LECG, LLC. Professor Hogan is involved in many research and consulting activities including major energy industry restructuring, network pricing and access issues, and privatization in several countries. E-mail Professor Hogan | |
| Dale Jorgenson Dale Jorgenson, Department of Economics Dale W. Jorgenson is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1969. He was appointed in the department of economics until 2002 when he received an appointment as a University Professor entitling him to teach across disciplinary and school boundaries. Professor Jorgenson has been the director of the Program on Technology and Economic Policy at the Center for Business and Government since 1984. He served as chairman of the Department of Economics from 1994 to 1997. Jorgenson received his Ph.D. degree in economics from Harvard and his bachelor’s degree in economics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Jorgenson specializes in economic policy issues related to long-term growth prospects for the U.S. economy. His current research focuses on tax reform, environmental policy, education policy and economic relations between the U.S. and Japan. E-mail Professor Jorgenson | |
| Joseph Kalt Joseph Kalt, Kennedy School of Government Joseph P. Kalt is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy and chair of the Economics and Quantitative Analysis Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Professor Kalt has served as the Kennedy School's Academic Dean for Research and as the faculty chair of the Environment and Natural Resources Program in Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs. He served on the Steering Committee of the National Park Service Project on National Parks for the 21st Century. His research focuses on exploring the economic implications and political origins of the government regulation of markets. E-mail Professor Kalt | |
| Michael Kremer Michael Kremer, Department of Economics Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Kremer’s recent research examines education and health in developing countries, immigration, and globalization. He and Rachel Glennerster published Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases, which won the Association of American Publishers Award for the Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Medical Science in 2004. He is a 2005 recipient of the International Health Economics Association’s Kenneth J. Arrow Award for Best Paper in Health Economics. In 2006, Scientific American named him one of the 50 researchers of the year. E-mail Professor Kremer | |
| Robert Lawrence Robert Lawrence, Kennedy School of Government Robert Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment. Lawrence came to the school from the Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University and Yale University, where he received his PhD in economics. He was the New Century Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is on the advisory boards of the Congressional Budget Office, the Institute for International Economics, the Overseas Development Council, and the Presidential Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy. His research focuses on trade policy. He recently returned to Harvard after serving as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. E-mail Professor Lawrence | |
| Erich Muehlegger Erich Muehlegger, Kennedy School of Government Erich Muehlegger is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. His research interests include industrial organization, economic regulation, and environmental policy. His current research investigates the role environmental regulation of gasoline content plays in gasoline price volatility and the extent to which price spikes in gasoline markets could be mitigated by uniform regulation. His other research interests include deregulation of electricity markets, environmental implications of economic developments and public policy implications of behavioral economics. He received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and lives in Allston, Massachusetts. E-mail Professor Muehlegger | |
| Felix Oberholzer-Gee Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard Business School Felix Oberholzer-Gee is an Associate Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich. Professor Oberholzer-Gee’s research examines how business strategies can be adapted to the wider business environment and to country-specific institutions. He extensively studied the impact of business regulation on firm strategy and company performance. He has also looked at the influence of nongovernmental groups on company strategy and tactics, most notably in his work on NIMBY (“Not in My Backyard”) problems. His current projects include a study on voluntary company programs to reduce carbon emissions and a project on renewable energy. E-mail Prof. Oberholzer-Gee | |
| Ariel Pakes Ariel Pakes, Department of Economics Ariel Pakes is Steven McArthur Heller Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where his research has been in industrial organization, the economics of technological change, and econometric theory. Pakes is a fellow of the Econometric Society, whose Frisch Medal he won in 1986. He delivered the Fisher-Schultz Lecture at the World Congress of the Econometric Society, in 2005 in London. Pakes is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an Editor of the RAND Journal of Economics and an associate editor of Economic Letters and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He is a research associate of the NBER and a member of the AEA Committee on Government Statistics. Pakes has been chair of the AEA Census Advisory Panel and Associate Editor of Econometrica, the Journal of Econometrics, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, and Economics of Innovation and New Technology. Before coming to Harvard in 1999, he was the Charles and Dorothea Dilley Professor of Economics at Yale University (1997-99). Pakes received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1980. E-mail Prof. Pakes | |
| Theodore Panayotou Theodore Panayotou, Kennedy School of Government Theodore Panayotou is the director of the Environment and Sustainable Development Program at the Center for International Development, the John Sawhill Lecturer in Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. He specializes in natural resource management and environmental economics as they relate to economic development. He has served as senior economic and environmental advisor to governments in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Central and South America and consulted with international organizations such as the World Bank, UNEP, WHO, UNDP, UNCTAD, OECD. In 1991, Panayotou received the Society for Conservation Biology’s Distinguished Achievement Award in recognition of his efforts to utilize economic analysis as a tool of environmental conservation. E-mail Dr. Panayotou | |
| Richard Peiser Richard Peiser, Harvard Graduate School of Design Richard Peiser is the Michael D. Spear Professor of Real Estate Development at the Graduate School of Design. Professor Peiser's primary research has focused on developing an understanding of the response of real estate developers to the market place and to the institutional environment in which they operate, particularly in the areas of urban redevelopment, affordable housing, and suburban sprawl. A planner and entrepreneur-developer as well as an expert in real estate finance, he has also demonstrated an interest in spatial and design issues as well as in the economics of land development. He has been active in the Urban Land Institute, where he is now a Trustee and of which he has authored numerous publications on his policy-oriented research. E-mail Professor Peiser | |
| Forest Reinhardt Forest Reinhardt, Harvard Business School Forest L. Reinhardt is a professor at Harvard Business School. Most of his articles and papers analyze problems of environmental and natural resource management, focusing on the relationships between firms' market and non-market strategies. He has written numerous classroom cases on these and related topics, used at Harvard and other schools in MBA curricula and executive program training. Professor Reinhardt's current research concentrates on the relationships between business and the environment, particularly in the energy industry and in the food and agribusiness sector. He is interested in the relations between environmental regulation and corporate strategy, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources, and the economics of environmental protection. E-mail Professor Reinhardt | |
| Steven Shavell Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School Steven Shavell is the Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law and Economics, Director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School. He received a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1973, joined the Department of Economics at Harvard University in 1974, and moved to the faculty of Harvard Law School in 1980. His major research interests are in economic analysis of tort, contract, property, and criminal law, and in legal procedure and litigation. He has published numerous articles in professional journals and four books, most recently Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2004). E-mail Professor Shavell | |
| Robert Stavins Robert Stavins, Kennedy School of Government Robert N. Stavins is the director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the Kennedy School. He is the chair of the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science Advisory Board and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Professor Stavins' research has focused on diverse areas of environmental economics and policy, including examinations of: design and implementation of market-based policy instruments; innovation and diffusion of energy-efficiency technologies; effects of cost heterogeneity on the performance of incentive-based instruments; competitiveness effects of regulation; factors affecting land use change; positive political economy of policy instrument choice; costs of carbon sequestration; and factors affecting urban water demand. E-mail Professor Stavins | |
| Lawrence Summers Lawrence Summers, Kennedy School of Government Lawrence Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. He served as president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006. An eminent scholar and admired public servant, Mr. Summers has taught on the faculty at Harvard and MIT. He has served in a series of senior public policy positions, including political economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Chief Economist of the World Bank, and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Mr. Summers's many publications include Understanding Unemployment (1990) and Reform in Eastern Europe (1991, coauthored with others), as well as more than 100 articles in professional economics journals. He also edited the series Tax Policy and the Economy. In 2000, Mr. Summers was invited to present the American Economic Association's prestigious Ely Lecture, in which he addressed "International Financial Crises: Causes, Preventions, and Cures." In 1993 he received the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40. In 2002, Mr. Summers was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Mr. Summers received his B.S. from MIT and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. E-mail Professor Summers | |
| Michael Toffel Michael Toffel, Harvard Business School Michael Toffel is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research focuses on voluntary environmental programs initiated by industry associations, government regulators, and non-governmental organizations. His recent work seeks to identify which of these programs legitimately distinguish adopters as having superior environmental performance -- and why -- and whether these programs lead to improvements in these areas. He is also examining whether socially responsible investment (SRI) ratings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) actually predict companies' social performance. E-mail Professor Toffel | |
| Richard Vietor Richard Vietor, Harvard Business School Richard Vietor is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and Senior Associate for the Asian Initiative. He is currently course head of the required course, Business, Government and the International Economy. He has written extensively on energy and environmental policy, deregulation, and most recently on economic competition. He continues to be interested in energy security and climate change, and does work with NGOs, companies and governments in Latin America, Europe and Asia. E-mail Professor Vietor | |
| Martin Weitzman Martin Weitzman, Department of Economics Martin Weitzman is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics. Professor Weitzman is currently working in several areas of environmental economics. He is attempting to clarify the "essence" of the global-warming problem as a problem of economic growth, and to extend the scope of national income accounts to include activities related to resource depletion and environmental change. Yet another area of interest is the economics of biodiversity. Previous work examined instrument choice under uncertainty. His seminal article in this field, Prices vs. Quantities in The Review of Economic Studies, is one of the most frequently cited journal articles in the field of environmental economics and continues to provide fertile ground for new research. E-mail Professor Weitzman | |
| Richard Zeckhauser Richard Zeckhauser, Kennedy School of Government Richard J. Zeckhauser is the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government. Zeckhauser pursues a mix of conceptual and applied research. His ongoing policy investigations explore ways to promote human health, to help labor and financial markets operate more efficiently, and to foster informed and appropriate choices by individuals and government agencies. Zeckhauser's current major research addresses the performance of institutions confronted with inadequate commitment capabilities, incomplete information flow, and human participants who fail to behave in accordance with models of rationality. Financial markets and health risks are the subjects of his major empirical investigations. E-mail Professor Zeckhauser |
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