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Christopher R. Knittel

George P. Shultz Professor of Energy Economics, MIT
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Working Papers

  • Knittel, Christopher R. and Shinsuke Tanaka. "Driving Behavior and the Price of Gasoline: Evidence from Fueling-Level Micro Data." In submission.
  • Knittel, Christopher R. and Samuel Stolper. "Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use." In submission.
  • Abito, Jose-Miguel, Christopher R. Knittel, Konstantinos Metaxoglou, Andre Trindade. "Coordinating Separate Markets for Externalities." In submission
  • Knittel, Christopher R., Konstantinos Metaxoglou, Andre Trindade. "Does the U.S. Export Global Warming? Coal Trade and the Shale Gas Boom." In submission
  • Burlig, Fiona, Christopher R. Knittel, David Rapson, Mar Reguant, Catherine Wolfram. "Machine Learning from Schools About Energy Efficiency." In submission.
  • Archsmith, James, Kenneth Gillingham, Christopher R. Knittel, and David Rapson. “Attribute Substitution in Household Vehicle Portfolios.” Revised and resubmitted, The Rand Journal of Economics.
  • Jacobsen, Mark, Christopher R. Knittel, James Sallee, and Arthur van Benthem. “Sufficient Statistics for Imperfect Externality-Correcting Policies.” Conditionally accepted at The Journal of Political Economy.
  • Allcott, Hunt and Christopher R. Knittel. “Are Consumers Poorly Informed About Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments.” Forthcoming The American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
  • Bartik, Alexander W., Janet Currie, Michael Greenstone, Christopher R. Knittel. “The Local Economic and Welfare Consequences of Hydraulic Fracturing.”  Revised and resubmitted to The American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
  • Chen, Bo, Christopher R. Knittel, Don MacKenzie, Stephen Zoepf. "Racial and Gender Discrimination in Transportation Network Companies," In submission.
  • Chen, Chia-Wen, Wei-Min Hu, and Christopher R. Knittel. "Subsidizing Fuel Efficient Cars: Evidence from China's Automobile Industry," In submission.
  • Lucas Davis and Christopher R. Knittel. "Are Fuel Economy Standards Regressive?" Forthcoming in Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  • Hashmat Khan, Christopher R. Knittel, Konstantinos Metaxoglou, and Maya Papineau. “How do Carbon Emissions Respond to Business-Cycle Shocks?" In submission.
  • Knittel, Christopher R., Konstantinos Metaxoglou, and Andre Trindade. “Natural Gas Prices and Coal Displacement: Evidence from Electricity Markets.” In submission.
  • Busse, Meghan, Christopher R. Knittel and Florian Zettelmeyer. “Stranded Vehicles: The Incidence of Gasoline Taxes Through the Lens of Vehicle Values.”
  • Busse, Meghan, Christopher R. Knittel and Florian Zettelmeyer. “Did `Cash for Clunkers' Deliver? The Consumer Effects of the Car Allowance Rebate System.”

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