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Associate Professor of Economics

Professor Mansur's research focuses on energy and regulation economics. In particular, he studies questions concerning: strategic firm behavior in regulated markets; strategic firm behavior and the environment; consumer behavior in regulated markets; and various other topics in environmental and energy economics. Professor Mansur's current research examines how different market organizations affect firms’ ability to trade in wholesale electricity markets and how these firms incorporate cost shocks, including changes in the prices of pollution permits, into their production decisions.

Selected Articles
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"Averting Regulatory Enforcement: Evidence from New Source Review" (with N. Keohane and A. Voynov), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, forthcoming

"Is Real-Time Pricing Green?: The Environmental Impacts of Electricity Demand Variance" (with S. Holland), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming in Vol. 90, 2008

"Measuring Welfare in Restructured Electricity Markets" Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming in Vol. 90, 2008

"Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition: An Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets,” (with J.B. Bushnell and C. Saravia), American Economic Review, Vol. 98, 2008

“Climate Change Adaptation: A Study of Fuel Choice and Consumption in the U.S. Energy Sector,” (with R. Mendelsohn and W. Morrison), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 55, 2008

"Reformulating Competition? Gasoline Content Regulation and Wholesale Gasoline Prices" (with J. Brown, J. Hastings, and S. Villas-Boas), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 55, 2008

"Do Oligopolists Pollute Less? Evidence from a Restructured Electricity Market" Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 55, 2007

"Upstream Competition and Vertical Integration in Electricity Markets" Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 50, 2007

"The Short-Run Effects of Time-Varying Prices in Competitive Electricity Markets" (with S. Holland), The Energy Journal, Vol. 27, 2006

"Consumption under Noisy Price Signals: A Study of Electricity Retail Rate Deregulation in San Diego" (with J. Bushnell), Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 53, 2005

"Examining Policies to Reduce Homelessness Using a General Equilibrium Model of the Housing Market" (with J. M. Quigley, S. Raphael, and E. Smolensky), Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 52, 2002

"The Environmental Effects of SO₂ Trading and Banking" (with D. Burtraw), Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 33, 1999

"Costs and Benefits of Reducing Air Pollutants Related to Acid Rain" (with D. Burtraw, A. Krupnick, D. Austin, and D. Farrell), Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 16, 1998

Working Papers
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"Prices vs. Quantities: Environmental Regulation and Imperfect Competition"

"The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations" (with S. Olmstead)

"Market Organization and Efficiency in Electricity Markets" (with M. White)

Education
PhD University of California, Berkeley, 2002
BA Colby College, 1995