Nicholas Muller

Lester and Judith Lave Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy

Tepper School of Business

BIO

Nicholas Muller is the Lester and Judith Lave Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy and works at the intersection of environmental policy and economics. His interdisciplinary research projects focus on distributional weights in benefit cost analysis, calculating air pollution damage from wildfires and economic activity, measuring the costs associated with deployment of carbon capture and storage systems in the United States, and analyzing the effects of environmental policies on the municipal bond market. He teaches microeconomics, sustainable business, energy policy and economics, and environmental and natural resource economics. He has published papers in the American Economic Review, Science, Nature, and Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Lester and Judith Lave Associate Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy
    Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jul 2017 - present
  • Associate Professor (with tenure)
    Middlebury College, Economics, Middlebury (village), United States1 Jul 2014 - 30 Jun 2017
  • Visiting Associate Professor of Economics
    Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jul 2015 - 30 Jan 2016
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the Environmental Studies Program
    Middlebury College, Middlebury (village), United States1 Jul 2007 - 31 Jul 2014

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Science Advisory Board
    Environmental Protection Agency, Washington D.C., United States1 Jan 2015 - present
  • Research Associate
    National Bureau of Economic Research, Environment and Energy Working Group, Cambridge, United States1 Sep 2014 - present
  • Faculty Research Fellow
    National Bureau of Economic Research, Environment and Energy Working Group, Cambridge, United States1 Apr 2012 - 30 Sep 2014

DEGREES

  • PhD Philosophy, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
    Yale University, New Haven, United States2007
  • M.A. f Public Affairs, Environmental Policy & Public Financial Administration
    Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States2002
  • Bachelor of Science (Honors), Public Policy, Planning, and Management
    University of Oregon, Eugene, United States1996

CAMPUS

  • Pittsburgh

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 13 Climate Action
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • 10 Reduced Inequalities

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