Erik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Carthage College. His research interests are in environmental and energy economics, public economics, and microeconometrics. His recent research has empirically examined environmental consequences of the structure of electricity markets, how integrating renewable electricity into the electricity grid effects environmental and market outcomes, and how regulatory structure effects air pollution. Before coming to Carthage College in 2017, he was a member of the Georgia Institute of Technology economics faculty after earning a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan School of Public Policy and Department of Economics.
Publications
The Cost of Carbon Dioxide Abatement from State Renewable Portfolio Standards. Resource and Energy Economics, 2014.
Renewable Energy and Wholesale Electricity Price Variability. IAEE Energy Forum, 2016. (with Matthew Oliver)
Impacts of Solar Power on Electricity Rates and Bills. Proceedings of the 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, 2016. (with Marilyn Brown, Daniel Matisoff, Ben Staver, Ross Beppler, and Chris Blackburn)
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Firm Learning from Environmental Regulation. Energy Economics, 2016. (with Emily Galloway)
Peak Shifting and Cross-Class Subsidization: The Impacts of Solar PV on Changes in Electricity Costs. Energy Policy, 2017 (with Marilyn Brown, Daniel Matisoff, Ben Staver, Ross Beppler, and Chris Blackburn)
The Comparative Effectiveness of Residential Solar Incentives. Energy Policy, 2017. (with Daniel Matisoff)
Information Exchange and Transnational Environmental Problems. Environmental and Resource Economics, 2018. (with Johnson Kakeu)
Two Birds, One Stone? Local Pollution Regulation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Energy Economics, 2019. (with Claire Brunel)
Renewable Generation Capacity and Wholesale Electricity Price Variance. The Energy Journal, 2019. (with Matthew Oliver)
Economic Determinants of Multilateral Environmental Agreements. International Tax and Public Finance, 2020. (with Tibor Besedes and Xinping Tian)
Working Papers
Confidence! (with Juan Moreno-Cruz)
Congestion in the Electricity Transmission System Redistributes Pollution across Long Distances (with Juan Moreno-Cruz)
Measuring the Productive Inefficiency in Renewable Electricity Generation
The Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Approaches to Residential Radon Control (with Paul Courant, David Mendez, and Kenneth Warner)
In Progress
Reserve Market Impacts of New Intermittent Generating Capacity (with Emily Galloway)
Wind Energy and Negative Pricing (with Yu Wang and Shan Zhou)
Environmental Quality and Income Inequality: An Empirical Examination
White Papers
The State of Electric Power in the South (with Marilyn Brown, Miroslav Begovic, John Crittenden, Samuel Graham, and Valerie Thomas)
The Impact of Solar Penetration and Policies on PSE&G Electricity Bills and Rates, 2016. (with Marilyn Brown, Daniel Matisoff, Benjamin Staver, Ross Beppler, Chris Blackburn)