Is There An Energy-Efficiency Gap? Experimental Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Plants

Date

Friday, October 2, 2015

Description

Nicholas Ryan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University. He has been a Cowles Foundation Fellow at Yale University (2014-15) and a Prize Fellow in Economics at Harvard University from 2012-2014. He received a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 and a BA in Economics summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. He previously worked as a Research Associate in the Capital Markets group at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC.  Nick studies energy markets and environmental regulation in developing countries. Energy use enables high standards of living but rapid, energy-intensive growth has caused many environmental problems in turn. Nick’s research measures how energy use and pollution emissions respond to regulation and market incentives. His work includes empirical studies of the effect of power grid capacity on electricity prices, how firms make decisions about energy-efficiency and how environmental regulation can be designed to best abate pollution at low social cost.

Location

East Lansing, Michigan, USA