@knittelmit.bsky.social - Christopher Knittel

20 Feb 2026 21:31 +0000

Wait…..US companies are saying that they deserve a refund now that the tariffs were deemed unconstitutional……but……but…..I thought CHINA paid the tariffs!!!!???? Now we will get to learn lots of people actually understand economics.

16 Jan 2026 22:25 +0000

I am excited that my energy economics and policy class is part of a really cool MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP). Learn more here: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/page/dedp-micromasters-program Enroll now! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

04 Dec 2025 15:02 +0000

New paper out today in Nature Energy! We evaluate how Congressional proposals for policy-driven transmission expansion would shape U.S. electricity costs, emissions, and reliability. Big implications for climate and grid planning. rdcu.be/eS7lj #EnergyPolicy #Transmission #CleanEnergy https://rdcu.be/eS7lj

03 Dec 2025 14:42 +0000

Electricity affordability is a major concern. A new paper with grad student Fischer Espiritu Argosino shows renewable policies aren’t driving price increases once you control for confounders. https://ceepr.mit.edu/workingpaper/renewables-and-electricity-affordability-untangling-correlation-from-causation/ #EnergyAffordability #ElectricityPrices #Renewables #PolicyResearch

18 Jun 2025 23:30 +0000

Any #Warsaw recommendations? Food and tourism.

30 Mar 2025 16:19 +0000

First they came after the undocumented immigrants' speech, who had few constitutional protections, and I did not speak out— because I was not undocumented.

21 Mar 2025 12:51 +0000

From my awesome co-author Jen Alix-Garcia: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5203312-trump-administration-environment-attacks-economy/

06 Jan 2025 15:57 +0000

Submit your interesting paper to the Spring @nberpubs.bsky.social EEE meetings. The great #PaulinaOliva and @stevecicala.bsky.social ky.social are sure to pick an amazing set of papers. DEADLINE IS IN 9 DAYS!! March 27-28, 2025 https://conference.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=EEEs25

05 Dec 2024 23:23 +0000

You should listen to this podcast! You can skip the most recent one, but the others are worthwhile! #energysky #econsky #climatesky https://energy.mit.edu/podcast/the-next-four-years-of-us-energy/

03 Dec 2024 21:58 +0000

My amazing post doc, Juan Senga, presenting our work using a revealed preference argument to estimate the non-engineering costs associated with building transmission at the #CEEPR workshop.

03 Dec 2024 14:50 +0000

Looking forward to our #CEEPR fall workshop in DC. A great lineup of papers and our largest registration ever! 1/3 academics, 1/3 industry, 1/3 policy makers. https://ceepr.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-MIT-CEEPR-Fall-Workshop-Agenda.pdf #energysky

28 Nov 2024 22:07 +0000

Frying a turkey in a log cabin in the middle of a New Hampshire forest? What can go wrong!? At least there isn’t an open flame. Happy #Thanksgiving everyone!

26 Nov 2024 19:18 +0000

A quick calculation on #Trump's #tariffs. We import ~$900B from Ca and M. 25% tariff. Assume a 75% pass-through (low?), that's a $1,000 tax on the avg US household. We import $430B from China. 10% tariff => $250/HH. Here comes a $1,250/year tax on US households? #TrumpTradeWar

25 Nov 2024 14:57 +0000

Hey #energysky #econsky #academicsky, If you haven't tried, try #Google's #NotebookLM podcast feature. Just upload a paper and hit go. I plan to use these for my class. It seems to do a decent job at AI generating the podcast. https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/db41f575-7c95-48ab-9ca1-9528ff0a17c8/audio

25 Nov 2024 02:42 +0000

My son and I always behave myopically at hotpot. The ride home is always painful.

21 Nov 2024 17:56 +0000

Excited to share our new paper: "Using Information to Curb Racial Discrimination" with Don MacKenzie, Michiko Namazu, @ozaltun.bsky.social, @dansvirsky.bsky.social, & @stephenzoepf.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w33118 #EconSky #EnergySky #TechSky #ResearchSky https://www.nber.org/papers/w33118

18 Nov 2024 17:23 +0000

@mitsloan.bsky.social was kind enough to write out our recently published paper in #ScienceAdvances on energy poverty and the disconnect with where #LIHEAP allocations go. Work continues; please let me know what you think! #energysky #climatesky #econsky #policysky https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/energy-poverty-hits-us-residents-more-south-and-southwest-study-finds

18 Nov 2024 00:44 +0000

My son’s first #Steelers game. It was a good one. My brother (pictured) and I were on the season-ticket waitlist for 24 years….

15 Nov 2024 20:38 +0000

Off to Pittsburgh!!! Go #Steelers.

14 Nov 2024 19:47 +0000

My ancestors that lived here in the <1500s would be proud. But Knittel means “rude person” in old German, so their neighbors might not have cared. [contains quote post or other embedded content]