NBER profile: Christopher R. Knittel.

Christopher R. Knittel is a Research Associate in the NBER's Environmental and Energy Economics; Industrial Organization, and Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Programs. He is also the William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics in the Sloan School of Management at MIT, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT, and Co-Director of The E2e Project at MIT, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago.

Knittel's research focuses on environmental and energy economics, often approaching research questions from an industrial organization perspective. His work is interested in how consumers respond to changes in product attributes, how firms interact in these markets, and what these mean for policy. In addition to his work in environmental and energy economics, he has worked on banking markets.

Knittel is the co-editor of the Journal of Public...