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Charles D. Kolstad
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| Charles Kolstad is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is jointly appointed in the Department of Economics and the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. For the decade prior to joining UCSB in 1993, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He has been a visiting professor at MIT, Stanford, the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the New Economic School (Moscow). He received his PhD from Stanford (1982), his MA from Rochester and his BS from Bates College. |
| Most of Prof. Kolstad's research has been in the area of regulation, particularly environmental regulation. Recently, he has also done work in environmental valuation theory. He is particularly interested in the role of information in environmental decision-making and regulation. Currently he has a major research project on the role of uncertainty and learning in controlling the precursors of climate change. His past work in energy markets has focused on coal and electricity markets, including the effect of air pollution regulation on these markets. With over 100 publications, he has published in a variety of journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Land Economics and The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM). |
| Prof. Kolstad is the editor of Resource and Energy Economics, has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics & Management (JEEM), and is currently on the editorial board of Land Economics and JEEM. Oxford University Press has recently published his undergraduate text, Environmental Economics. He also co-edited the North-Holland book Measuring the Demand for Environmental Quality. |
| Prof. Kolstad is the president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE). He has also served on AERE's Board of Directors. He is a member of the USEPA's Clean Air Act Compliance Analysis Committee and has served on numerous other advisory boards, including the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the USEPA Science Advisory Board. |
