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Reed Walker

Professor | Transamerica Chair in Business Strategy | Business & Public Policy | Energy Institute | Sustainability, Haas School of Business

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Reed Walker is a Professor of Business and Public Policy and Economics at UC Berkeley. His research explores the social costs of environmental externalities, such as air pollution and how regulations to limit these externalities contribute to gains and/or losses to the economy. He is the faculty co-director of the UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab’s Climate and Environment Initiative. He is also a Research Associate at the Energy Institute at Berkeley, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at IZA. He received his PhD in economics from Columbia University.

Expertise and Research Interests

  • Energy and Environmental Economics
  • Labor Economics
  • Public Economics
     

Papers, Articles and Publications

Awards & Honors
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan Research Fellowship, 2017
  • IZA Young Labor Economist Award, 2015
Academic Background
  • PhD, Economics, Columbia University
  • MA, Economics, Columbia University
  • BA, Mathematical Economics, Colgate University