Biography

Erin Mansur is an associate professor of economics at the Yale School of Management and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests are in the fields of industrial organization and environmental economics, focusing primarily on questions regarding energy markets and energy policy. In particular, he studies questions concerning: strategic firm behavior in restructured electricity markets; the interaction of imperfect competition in polluting markets and environmental regulation; consumer behavior in energy markets; and various other topics in environmental and energy economics. Professor Mansur's current research examines how different market organizations affect firms’ ability to trade in restructured electricity markets; how firms in restructured electricity markets incorporate cost shocks—especially changes in pollution permit prices—into their production decisions; whether local tradable permit markets reduce emissions or exacerbate environmental justice concerns; and the productivity and environmental costs of electricity blackouts in China.

Professor Mansur’s publications have appeared in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Urban Economics, Energy Journal, Contemporary Economic Policy, and Environmental Science and Technology. He has held previous positions as an assistant professor with a joint appointment at SOM and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, a visiting research associate at the University of California Energy Institute, and a research assistant at Resources for the Future. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. in biology, with minors in economics and philosophy, from Colby College.