Biography

Erin Mansur is an associate professor in the department of economics at Dartmouth College and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining Dartmouth in 2010, he taught at Yale University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. His research has appeared in several journals including in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Law and Economics, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. His research interests are in the fields of industrial organization and environmental economics, focusing primarily on questions regarding energy markets and energy policy. Recent research examines how environmental regulations affect profits, how regulations affect manufacturing employment, how the organization of electricity markets affects economic efficiency, and how resource adequacy, like blackouts, affects productivity.