Meredith Fowlie

Meredith Fowlie is a professor in Business & Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she serves as Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and has held the Class of 1935 Endowed Chair in Energy since 2015. She is an affiliated professor at the Haas School of Business, faculty director of the Energy Institute at Haas since 2020, co-director of the NBER Environment and Energy Economics Program since 2021, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2013, and affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group since 2010. Fowlie earned her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2006, M.Sc. in Environmental Economics from Cornell University in 2000, and B.Sc. in International Agriculture and Development (Honors) from Cornell University in 1997. Her prior appointments include Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan from 2006 to 2009, Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley from 2009 to 2013, and Associate Professor there from 2013 to 2021.

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.