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Joshua Blonz

Education

  • Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California - Berkeley, 2017
  • B.A., Economics, Pomona College, 2008
Current Research Topics
  • Energy Pricing Policy, The Financial Consequences of the Energy Transition, Renewable Energy, Natural Hazard Risk
  • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2020 - present
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2019 - 2020
  • Postdoctoral 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 2024

    Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference

    Money and Power: How Economies of Scope in Financing Shape the Green Energy Transition

  • seminar

    October 2023

    Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

    The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels

  • seminar

    October 2023

    Maryland AREC

    The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels

  • conference

    October 2023

    New York Fed Environmental Economics and Policy Conference

    The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels

  • conference

    June 2021

    AERE Summer Conference

    The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels

  • conference

    January 2021

    AEA Annual Meeting

    Exporting Carbon: US Coal Demand, International Leakage, and Implications for Climate Policy

  • conference

    June 2020

    AERE Summer Conference

    Exporting Carbon: US Coal Demand, International Leakage, and Implications for Climate Policy

  • seminar

    October 2019

    US EPA

    The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem

  • conference

    September 2019

    The Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop

    The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem

  • conference

    July 2019

    NBER EEE Summer Institute

    The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem

  • conference

    June 2019

    AERE Summer Conference, Lake Tahoe

    The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem

  • conference

    March 2019

    UC Berkeley POWER Conference

    The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem

  • conference

    March 2017

    UC Berkeley POWER Conference

    Making the Best of the Second-Best: Welfare Consequences of Time-Varying Electricity Prices

  • conference

    June 2016

    AERE 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.
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Last Update: September 3, 2024