Meet the Economists
Joshua Blonz
[email protected]
Education
- Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California - Berkeley, 2017
- B.A., Economics, Pomona College, 2008
- Principal-agent problem, Energy policy
Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2020 - presentEconomist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2019 - 2020Postdoctoral Scholar
Resources for the Future
2017 - 2019
- 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) - 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 - The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
Joshua A. Blonz
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2019)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2019.071 - Essays in Environmental and Energy Economics
Joshua Blonz
Dissertations (University of California, Berkeley) (2017) - 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 - Growing Complexities: A Cross-Sector Review of U.S. Biofuels Policies and Their Interactions
Joshua A. Blonz, Shalini P. Vajjhala, and Elena Safirova
RFF Discussion Paper (2008)
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
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
- Economic Letters
- Energy Journal
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
- Journal of Public Economics
- Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- Nature Energy
- Nature Sustainability
- Energy Economics