Meet the Researchers
Joshua Blonz
[email protected]
Education
- Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California - Berkeley, 2017
- B.A., Economics, Pomona College, 2008
- Energy Pricing Policy, The Financial Consequences of the Energy Transition, Natural Hazard Risk
Principal Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2024 - presentSenior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2020 - 2024Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2019 - 2020Postdoctoral Scholar
Resources for the Future
2017 - 2019
- Smart Thermostats, Automation, and Time-Varying Prices
Joshua Blonz, Karen Palmer, Casey J. Wichman, and Derek C. Wietelman
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (Forthcoming) - The Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
Joshua A. Blonz
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20210208
See also » FRB Working Paper (2019) - The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels
Josh Blonz, Brigitte Roth Tran, and Erin E. Troland
NBER Working Paper Series (2023)
https://doi.org/10.3386/w31072 - Making the Best of the Second-Best: Welfare Consequences of Time-Varying Electricity Prices
Joshua A. Blonz
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1086/720566 - Electricity Demand as a High-Frequency Economic Indicator: A Case Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Hurricane Harvey
Joshua Blonz and Jacob Williams
FEDS Notes (2020)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2781 - Social Safety Nets and US Climate Policy Costs
Joshua Blonz, Dallas Burtraw, and Margaret Walls
Climate Policy (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2011.644073 - Climate Policy’s Uncertain Outcomes for Households: The Role of Complex Allocation Schemes in Cap-and-Trade
Joshua Blonz, Dallas Burtraw, and Margaret A. Walls
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2010)
https://doi.org/10.2202/1935-1682.2533 - Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing Policies in the Electricity Sector
Dallas Burtraw, Margaret Walls, and Joshua Blonz
U.S. Energy Tax Policy (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921865.002
conference
May 2024Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference
Money and Power: How Economies of Scope in Financing Shape the Green Energy Transition
seminar
October 2023Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels
seminar
October 2023Maryland AREC
The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels
conference
October 2023New York Fed Environmental Economics and Policy Conference
The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels
conference
June 2021AERE Summer Conference
The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels
conference
January 2021AEA Annual Meeting
Exporting Carbon: US Coal Demand, International Leakage, and Implications for Climate Policy
conference
June 2020AERE Summer Conference
Exporting Carbon: US Coal Demand, International Leakage, and Implications for Climate Policy
seminar
October 2019US EPA
The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
conference
September 2019The Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop
The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
conference
July 2019NBER EEE Summer Institute
The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
conference
June 2019AERE Summer Conference, Lake Tahoe
The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
conference
March 2019UC Berkeley POWER Conference
The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
conference
March 2017UC Berkeley POWER Conference
Making the Best of the Second-Best: Welfare Consequences of Time-Varying Electricity Prices
conference
June 2016AERE Summer Conference, Breckenridge CO
Energy Efficiency Savings in Low-Income Households: Evidence from the California Savings Assistance Program
Referee
- AEJ: Economic Policy,
- JPE: Micro
- Journal of Public Economics
- Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
- Management Science
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
- Energy Journal
- Nature Energy
- Nature Sustainability
- Nature Climate Change
- Economic Letters
- Energy Economics.