Frank A. Wolak
Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies
Contact Info:
wolak@zia.stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~wolak/
Page in Stanford Directory
Phone: 650-723-3944
Office: Landau 363
Office hours: By appointment
Interests
- Research: Empirical industrial organization, econometric theory, natural resource and environmental economics
- Current Research: Empirical studies of regulated and formerly regulated industries, and energy natural resource, and environmental economics
- Teaching: Industrial organization, econometrics, and natural resource and environmental economics
- Professional Affiliations: NBER Research Associate, Visiting Scholar University of California Energy Institute
Recent Publications
(1) “Quantifying the Supply-Side Benefits from Forward Contracting in Wholesale Electricity Markets,” Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007
(2) “Structural Econometric Modeling: Rationales and Example from Industrial Organization,” Handbook of Econometrics, 2006
(3) “The Changes in Household Demand for Postal Delivery Services: 1986-2000,” Journal of Econometrics, 2008
List of Stanford Working Papers
Current Courses
| Autumn | ECON 250 Environmental Economics |
| Winter | ECON 271 Intermediate Econometrics II ECON 158 Regulatory Economics |
| Spring |
Education
Ph.D., M.S., Harvard University; B.A., Rice University