Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor | Faculty Director, Energy Institute at Haas
Economic Analysis and Policy
Leading expert on energy economics
About
Lucas Davis is the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor at Berkeley Haas and Faculty Director of the Energy Institute at Haas. His research focuses on energy and environmental markets, and, in particular, on electricity and natural gas regulation, pricing in competitive and non-competitive markets, and the economic and business impacts of environmental policy. He serves as co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to moving to UC Berkeley in 2009, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Energy and Environmental Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Public Finance
- Lucas W. Davis and Gilbert E. Metcalf. Does Better Information Lead to Better Choices? Evidence from Energy-Efficiency Labels. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
2016 - Severin Borenstein and Lucas W. Davis. The Distributional Effects of U.S. Clean Energy Tax Credits. NBER Tax Policy and the Economy.
2016 - Lucas Davis and Catherine Hausman. Market Impacts of a Nuclear Power Plant Closure. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
2016 - Lucas W. Davis and Paul J. Gertler. Contribution of Air Conditioning Adoption to Future Energy Use under Global Warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
2015 - Janet Currie, Lucas Davis, Michael Greenstone, and Reed Walker. Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1,600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings. American Economic Review.
2015 - Lucas W. Davis. Bonding Requirements for Natural Gas Producers. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy.
2015
At Haas since 2009
2016 – present, Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor, Haas School of Business
2014 – present, Faculty Director, Energy Institute at Haas
2012 – 2016, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
2009 – 2012, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
2008 – 2009, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, MIT
2005 – 2009, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan
- Faculty Director, Energy Institute at Haas
- Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
- Co-Editor, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- White House to relax energy efficiency rules for light bulbs, New York Times, 09/04/2019
- Is selling nuclear plants for decommissioning a safety issue?, Energy Post, 07/11/2019
- As consumers, millennials might not be so different after all (even in the way they use cars), Corriere Della Serra, 05/19/2019
- Steve Forbes: Rich people don’t need your money to buy electric cars — Let’s get real about EV tax credits, Fox News, 04/27/2019
- Less is more as domestic energy consumption falls, Financial Times, 09/24/2018
- “Pay-for-luck”: Oil and gas execs out-earn their peers, Salon, 09/12/2018
- Proof of climate change: How do we cool a heating world?, Power Technology, 09/12/2018
- California aims for 100 percent clean energy by 2045, Weather Network, 09/04/2018
- Meet (Elon Musk) the new boss, same as the old, American Prospect, 08/09/2018
- Equitable electrification: Renters need access to charging stations, too, Green Biz, 07/31/2018
- Renewables won’t keep Californians cool during heat waves, Orange County Register, 07/22/2018
- Heat waves and how to cope with them, EcoWatch, 07/07/2018
- It’s wildfire season in California, and utilities want to tamp down their liability, Stateline, 06/07/2018
- Economics 101: Is energy-efficient housing a waste of money?, The National, 06/03/2018
- Is ditching fossil fuels entirely a reasonable goal?, Christian Science Monitor, 05/24/2018
- Data and Decisions, Full-time MBA Program
- Data Analysis for Management, Executive MBA Program
- Energy and Environmental Markets, Undergraduate Program