Rate My Professor Meredith Fowlie

As an applied economist, Fowlie works at the intersection of industrial organization, energy markets, and environmental economics. Her research investigates market-based environmental regulations, particularly emissions trading programs, the demand side of energy markets, and energy use in emerging economies. Select publications include “Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program” with Michael Greenstone and Catherine Wolfram (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018); “Market-based Environmental Regulation and the Evolution of Market Structure” with Stephen Ryan and Mar Reguant (Journal of Political Economy, 2016); “Distributing Pollution Rights in Cap-and-Trade Programs: Are Outcomes Independent of Allocation?” with Jeffrey Perloff (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013); “What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California’s NOx Trading Program” with Stephen P. Holland and Erin Mansur (American Economic Review, 2012); and “Emissions Trading, Electricity Industry Restructuring, and Investment in Pollution Control” (American Economic Review, 2010). She is Associate Editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, serves on the California Independent Emissions Market Assessment Committee, and is a member of the Environmental Defense Economics Advisory Council and the Brookings Institution Center on Regulation and Markets Advisory Council.