Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics and Public Policy

Meredith Fowlie, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

CLOSUP-affiliated researcher Meredith Fowlie, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, works at the intersection of empirical industrial organization, environmental economics and public policy, with a specific focus on policy interventions designed to reduce the environmental impacts of energy production and consumption.

Fowlie's recent work on the electricity sector includes an award from CLOSUP's Policy Research Grant program. More information on that specific project is available here.

Fowlie's research in this domain focuses on interactions between electricity markets and emissions permit markets. Her current work includes research on how variation in permit allocation rules influeces the short run electricity production decisions of firms. An important part of Fowlie's work involves empirically testing the theoretical underpinnings of environmental regulation. This work includes an assessment of whether a necessary condition for efficient coordination of environmental regulation is being met (with Chris Knittel and Catherine Wolfram), testing for an effect of initial emissions permit allocations on firms’ emissions decisions in equilibrium (with Jeffrey Perloff), and an investigation of whether emissions reductions achieved under market based regulation exceed what would have been achieved under more traditional, more prescriptive regulatory regimes in California (with Stephen Holland and Erin Mansur). More information on these and other projects Fowlie has undertaken is available on her web site.