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Jason Jay
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Senior Lecturer, Sustainability
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Namrata Kala
Economics, Finance and Accounting
W. Maurice Young (1961) Career Development Professor of Management
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Christopher Knittel
Economics, Finance and Accounting
George P. Shultz Professor
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Robert S. Pindyck
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics
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Gita R. Rao
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Senior Lecturer, Finance; Assoc. Faculty Director, MFin Program
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Andy Sun
Management Science
Iberdrola-Avangrid Professor in Electric Power Systems
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John D. Sterman
Management Science
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
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Catherine Wolfram
Economics, Finance and Accounting
William F. Pounds Professor of Energy Economics
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Joann de Zegher
Management Science
Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor
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Y. Karen Zheng
Management Science
George M. Bunker Professor
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"Design and Implementation of the Price Cap on Russian Oil Export."
Johnson, Simon, Lukasz Rachel, and Catherine Wolfram. Journal of Comparative Economics. Forthcoming.
"Digital Collateral."
Gertler, Paul, Brett Green, and Catherine Wolfram. Quarterly Journal of Economics. Forthcoming.
"Exporting Global Warming? Coal Trade and the Shale Gas Boom."
Knittel, Christopher R., Konstantinos Metaxoglou, Anson Soderbery, and Andres Trindade. The Canadian Journal of Economics. Forthcoming. CEEPR Working Paper.
"The Chinese Communist Party and Regulatory Transparency in China’s Food Industry."
Gao, Qihua, Yasheng Huang, Yuze Sui, and Y. Karen Zheng. PNAS Nexus. Forthcoming.
"Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity."
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Namrata Kala, and Anant Nyshadham. Journal of Political Economy. Forthcoming. NBER.
"The ’90s Are Over: 5 Reasons to Embrace Carbon Pricing Today."
Clausing, Kimberly and Catherine Wolfram. The Hill, March 26, 2024.
"Assessing the Distribution of Employment Vulnerability to the Energy Transition Using Employment Carbon Footprints."
Graham, Kailin and Christopher Knittel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 121, No. 7 (2024).
"Climate Tax Policy Reform Options in 2025."
John Bistline, Kimberly Clausing, Neil Mehrotra, James Stock, and Catherine Wolfram. In The Hamilton Project, Washington, D.C.: February 2024.
"Systemic Investing to Tackle the US Food Waste Challenge - The Fink Family and ReFED."
Topic: Sustainability
Yau, Alban and Jason Jay, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6956-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2023.
Keywords: Systemic Investing, Investing for Systems Change, Systems Capital, Food Waste, Backbone Organization, Funder Collaborative, Impact Investing, Sustainable Finance
"Algorithms for Difference-of-Convex (DC) Programs Based on Difference-of-Moreau-Envelopes Smoothing."
Sun, Kaizhao and Andy Sun. INFORMS Journal on Optimization Vol. 5, No. 4 (2023): 321-339.
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