Dr. Erin Baker, Assistant Professor
 120C Marston Hall
University of Massachusetts
160 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-2210
E-mail: edbaker@ecs.umass.edu
Phone: (413) 545-0670
Fax: (413) 545-1027
Education:
B.A. U.C. Berkeley, 1986;
M.S. Stanford University, 1998;
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002
Research Interests: Applying operations research methods to environmental and energy economics and policy; how uncertainty impacts global climate change policy in a strategic environment; the economics of distributed generation; the interplay between energy and development in Africa
Honors & Awards:
- NSF CAREER Award, 2008
- IEOR Advisor of the Year, 2005, 2006
- Runner-Up, Decision Analysis Society Student Award, INFORMS 2003
- Food Research Institute Fellowship, Stanford, 1995-1998
- Second Year Honors awarded to the most outstanding second-year mathematics student at U.C. Berkeley, 1984
Select Archival Publications:
- Baker, E., Optimal Policy under Uncertainty and Learning in Climate Change: A Stochastic Dominance Approach, Journal of Public Economic Theory. (Forthcoming)
- Baker, E., Clarke, L., and Shittu, E., Technical Change and the Marginal Cost of Abatement, Energy Economics. (Forthcoming)
- Baker, E. and Shittu, E. Uncertainty and Endogenous Technical Change in Climate Policy Models, Energy Economics. (Forthcoming)
- Baker, E., Chon, H. and Keisler, J. Advanced Solar R&D: Applying Expert Elicitations to Inform Climate Policy. Energy Economics. (Forthcoming)
- Baker E. and Adu-Bonnah, K., Investment in Risky R&D Programs in the face of Climate Uncertainty. Energy Economics, 30:465-486 (2008)
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