Paul Joskow
Paul L. Joskow | |
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Born | Political economics Environmental economics | June 30, 1947
Doctoral advisor | John Joseph Herbert McGowan Alvin K. Klevorick Richard R. Nelson |
Doctoral students | Nancy Rose[1] Judith Chevalier[2] |
Influences | Ronald Coase Oliver E. Williamson |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Paul Lewis Joskow (born June 30, 1947) is an American
In his research and teaching, Joskow focuses on industrial organization, government regulation of industry, competition policy, and energy and environmental economics.[5]
Educational career
Upon completion of his PhD in economics at Yale University in 1972, Joskow began his career at MIT July 1, 1972 in the Economics Department. While teaching here, he received numerous awards[5] - including honors from the Public Research Institution (1993), University of Florida, Best Paper Award (1993) International Association for Energy Economics, Edward A. Hewlett Award for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (1995), and the Distinguished Service Award, MIT School of Humanities and Social Sciences (1998). From 1994-1998, Joskow served as the head of the MIT Department of Economics.[5]
Among his many fellowships, Paul Joskow served in international organizations of his specialties in environmental and industrial economics. These include the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut d'Economie Industrielle and the Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont in Toulouse, France, and as a chair of the National Academies Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy (STEP). Recently, Joskow has joined the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB).[6]
He served as President of the Yale University Council from 1993 - 2006. Professor Joskow is a past-President of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, a Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society, a distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[5]
Personal life and education
Joskow was born in
In 1978 Joskow married Barbara Chasen, and the couple currently reside in both Boston and New York City. They have one daughter, Suzanne Zoe Joskow, born in 1983. She graduated from Yale College in 2005 and now works in Hollywood, California.
His nephew is the blogger Matthew Yglesias.[9]
Selected publications
Joskow has published six books and over 125 articles in numerous journals and books.[10]
- Joskow, Paul Lewis (1972). A Behavioral Theory of Public Utility Regulation. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, United States—Connecticut.[5]
- Electric Power in the United States: Models and Policy Analysis (with Martin Baughman and Dilip Kamat), MIT Press, 1979.[5]
- Controlling Hospital Costs: The Role of Government Regulation, MIT Press, 1981.[5]
- Markets for Power: An Analysis of Electric Utility Deregulation (with Richard Schmalensee), MIT Press, 1983.[5]
- "Publicly Owned Electric Utility Profits and Resource Allocation: Comment," Land Economics, August, 1971.[5]
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
- Paul Lewis Joskow graduated Cornell University Pi Beta Kappa (1968).
- Joskow is a Woodrow Wilson fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Institute of International Relations, Princeton University.
- Following a fellowship at National Science Foundation (1969-1972), Joskow joined the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1985-1986)
- Joskow joined the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a fellow (1991), before receiving the following awards:
- Distinguished Service Award, Public Utility Research Center, University of Florida (1993), International Association for Energy Economics, Best Paper Award (1993), and Edward A. Hewett Prize (with Richard Schmalensee and Natasha Tsukanova).
- Later in his career, Joskow received the Yale Medal (November 2005) and Gordon Y. Billard Award (MIT - 2006).
- Joskow received the Distinguished Fellow Award, American Economic Association (2013)[5]
Other involvements
Joskow is a Fellow of the Yale Corporation, the governing body of Yale University;
Notes
- MIT. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- MIT. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
- ^ "Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Elects New President" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-18. Retrieved 2010-10-19.
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- ^ Joskow. "MIT Economics: Paul Joskow".
- ^ NERA Mourns the Loss of Firm Co-Founder Dr. Jules Joskow (July 12, 2012). "[1]" NERA Economic Consulting.
- ^ Joskow, Paul L. (September 29, 2009). "Boom Times at Francis Lewis High". The New York Times.
- ^ "Matthew Yglesias » Communicating with the Far Future". Archived from the original on 2009-11-21. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2008-05-01.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Yale Bulletin and Calendar". Archived from the original on 2012-11-02. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
- ^ "Boston Symphony Orchestra". Archived from the original on 2011-08-06. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
- ^ "Home". amacad.org.