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Catherine Wolfram

Catherine Wolfram

· William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Applied Economics

Active 1994–2026

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Citations8.4k
Papers21153 last 5y
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About

Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a professor of Applied Economics. She has previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and has held roles such as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury. Wolfram has published extensively on the economics of energy markets, analyzing topics such as rural electrification programs in the developing world, energy efficiency programs in the US, environmental regulation impacts, and market restructuring effects in the US and UK. Her current projects focus on the intersection of climate, energy, and trade, including work on carbon border adjustment mechanisms and oil market sanctions. She received her PhD in economics from MIT in 1996 and an AB from Harvard in 1989. Wolfram was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2025.

Research topics

  • Economics
  • Engineering
  • Business
  • Public economics
  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Political Science
  • Microeconomics
  • Economic growth
  • Electrical engineering

Selected publications

  • Inflation Reduction Act: Origins, Policy Implications, and Research Gaps

    Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · 2025-06-01 · 6 citations

    articleSenior author

    The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the largest federal climate legislation in the United States so far. The breadth and complexity of IRA’s energy and climate provisions raise new questions about its economic and environmental effects. This article summarizes IRA’s potential policy implications based on existing analysis and highlights research gaps. After providing an overview of the act and its political economy context, we summarize projected effects of IRA on emissions, energy system chang…

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  • The Global Effects of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms

    National Bureau of Economic Research · 2025-04-01 · 6 citations

    reportOpen accessSenior author

    We study carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) policies, as currently being implemented by the EU and UK.Policy discussions have cited three motivations and one concern.CBAMs can improve domestic competitiveness in regulated markets, reduce emissions leakage to unregulated markets, and encourage other countries to tax carbon.But CBAMs may particularly disadvantage lower-income trading partners.We evaluate these forces with a quantitative equilibrium model and plant-level data on aluminum and…

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  • Circle Homeomorphisms with Square Summable Diamond Shears

    International Mathematics Research Notices · 2024-07-22 · 3 citations

    articleSenior author

    Abstract We introduce and study the space of homeomorphisms of the circle (up to Möbius transformations), which are in $\ell ^{2}$ with respect to modular coordinates called diamond shears along the edges of the Farey tessellation. Diamond shears are related combinatorially to shear coordinates and are also closely related to the $\log \Lambda $-lengths of decorated Teichmüller space introduced by Penner. We obtain sharp results comparing this new class to the Weil–Petersson class and Hölder cla…

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  • Donor Contracting Conditions and Public Procurement: Causal Evidence from Kenyan Electrification

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023 · 3 citations

    1st authorCorresponding
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  • Climate Policy Reform Options in 2025

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 2 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior author
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Awards & honors

  • Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2025)

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