Matthew White Faculty Profile

Matthew White
Class of 1965 Wharton Term Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1995; MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1994

Research Areas
Applied econometrics; microeconomics; market regulation and organization

Current Projects
Analysis of electricity deregulation, market designs, and demand behavior; Empirical models of price discrimination and consumer choice.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2002-present (named Class of 1965 Wharton Term Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy). Previous appointment: Stanford University. Visiting appointment: University of Chicago

Other Positions
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1996-present; Visiting Economic Scholar, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, 2001-02

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton MBA Program, 2007; Tough, But We'll Thank You in Five Years MBA Teaching Award, 2005, 2006; Distinguished Teacher Award, Stanford University, 1997

Representative Publications
(with P. C. Reiss)
"Household Electricity Demand, Revisited." Review of Economic Studies 72:3 (2005).

"Demand and Pricing in Electricity Markets: Evidence from California's Energy Crisis." NBER Working Paper #9986, 2003.