Lucas Davis

Lucas Davis is the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor at Berkeley Haas. His research focuses on energy and environmental markets, and, in particular, on electricity and natural gas regulation, pricing in competitive and non-competitive markets, and the economic and business impacts of environmental policy. He serves as co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to moving to UC Berkeley in 2009, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.

Expertise and Research Interests

• Energy and Environmental Economics
• Applied Microeconomics
• Public Finance

Education

• PhD, Economics, University of Wisconsin
  
• MS, Economics, University of Wisconsin
  
• BA, Magna Cum Laude, Amherst College
  

Selected Papers and Publications

• “Does Better Information Lead to Better Choices? Evidence from Energy-Efficiency Labels”(with Gilbert Metcalf), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, 3(3), 589-625.
• “The Distributional Effects of U.S. Clean Energy Tax Credits” (with Severin Borenstein), NBER Tax Policy and the Economy, 2016, 30(1), 191-234.
• “Market Impacts of a Nuclear Power Plant Closure” (with Catherine Hausman), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8(2), 92-122.
• “Contribution of Air Conditioning Adoption to Future Energy Use under Global Warming” (with Paul Gertler), I, 2015, 112(19), 5962-5967.
• “Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1,600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings” (with Janet Currie, Michael Greenstone, and Reed Walker), American Economic Review, 2015, 105(2), 678-709.
• “Bonding Requirements for Natural Gas Producers”, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2015, 9(1), 128-144.

Teaching

• Data and Decisions
• Energy and Environmental Markets