Professor White studies how to measure the performance of markets, and how public policies and regulations affect the marketplace.  He is an award-winning instructor in Wharton’s MBA program, where he teaches economic analysis of firms and markets.

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Recent Papers and Current Projects

· Market Organization and Efficiency in Electricity MarketsWith Erin Mansur (Yale Univ.)

· Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort:  Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?  With H. Kunreuther (Wharton) and H. Yin (Michigan)

· Evaluating Welfare with Nonlinear Prices.   With Peter Reiss (Stanford Univ.)

· The Economics of Time Zones.

· Final version of  Friend or Foe?  Cooperation and Learning in High-Stakes Games.  Forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009.

· Final version of  What Changes Energy Consumption? Prices and Public Pressures.   
Rand Journal of Economics, Autumn 2008.

· Final version of Household Electricity Demand, Revisited.   Review of Economic Studies, July 2005.

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