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Frank A. Wolak is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and energy, with significant contributions to electrical and electronic engineering as well as renewable energy, sustainability, and environmental issues. Their work also intersects with economics and econometrics, pollution, and automotive engineering.

The scientist's research encompasses a diverse range of topics including smart grid energy management, electric power system optimization, and energy, environment, and transportation policies. They also address energy and environment impacts, energy efficiency and management, optimal power flow distribution, and electric vehicles and infrastructure.

Among the recent papers authored by Frank A. Wolak are:

  • Market Design in an Intermittent Renewable Future: Cost Recovery With Zero-Marginal-Cost Resources, 2021, IEEE Power and Energy Magazine
  • Long-Term Resource Adequacy in Wholesale Electricity Markets with Significant Intermittent Renewables, 2022, Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy
  • (Machine) learning from the COVID-19 lockdown about electricity market performance with a large share of renewables, 2020, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • Estimating cooling demand flexibility in a district energy system using temperature set point changes from selected buildings, 2023, Applied Energy
  • Can Forward Commodity Markets Improve Spot Market Performance? Evidence from Wholesale Electricity, 2023, American Economic Journal Economic Policy

Frequent collaborators include Ian H. Hardman, Blake Shaffer, Megan Bailey, Christoph Graf, and Mark C. Thurber. These coauthors have worked with Wolak on multiple publications reflecting ongoing scholarly partnerships.

Publication venues where Wolak has frequently contributed are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • American Economic Journal Economic Policy
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Applied Energy

Their book publications include titles released by Springer International Publishing and World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. Notable books are The Future of Electricity Retailing and How We Get There (2021) and A Household-Level Model of Demand for Electricity Services and Welfare Analysis of Electricity Prices in Rajasthan (2021).

Best Publications

  • Measuring Market Inefficiencies in California's Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market

    Severin Borenstein;James B. Bushnell;Frank A. Wolak

  • Structural Econometric Modeling: Rationales and Examples from Industrial Organization

    Peter C. Reiss;Frank A. Wolak

  • The Impact of Market Rules and Market Structure on the Price Determination Process in the England and Wales Electricity Market

    Frank A. Wolak;Robert Patrick

  • Measuring Industry Specific Protection: Antidumping in the United States

    Robert W Staiger;Frank A Wolak

  • Measuring Industry Specific Protection: Antidumpting in the United States

    Robert Staiger;Frank A. Wolak

  • An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Hedge Contracts on Bidding Behavior in a Competitive Electricity Market

    Frank A. Wolak

  • Measuring Industry Specific Protection: Antidumping in the United States

    Robert W. Staiger;Robert W. Staiger;Robert W. Staiger;Frank Wolak

  • Structural Econometric Modeling: Rationales and Examples from Industrial Organization

    Peter C. Reiss;Frank A. Wolak

  • The Impact of Market Rules and Market Structure on the Price Determination Process in the England and Wales Electricity Market

    Frank Wolak;Robert H. Patrick

  • Measuring Unilateral Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Markets: The California Market, 1998-2000

    Frank A. Wolak

  • Testing inequality constraints in linear econometric models

    Frank A. Wolak

  • Estimating the Customer-Level Demand for Electricity Under Real-Time Market Prices

    Robert Patrick;Frank A. Wolak

  • Expecting the Unexpected: Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market Design

    Severin Borenstein;James Bushnell;Frank A Wolak;Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins

  • Do Residential Customers Respond to Hourly Prices? Evidence from a Dynamic Pricing Experiment

    Frank A. Wolak

  • An Exact Test for Multiple Inequality and Equality Constraints in the Linear Regression Model

    Frank A. Wolak

  • Collusive Pricing with Capacity Constraints in the Presence of Demand Uncertainty

    Robert W. Staiger;Frank A. Wolak

  • AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF HEDGE CONTRACTS ON BIDDING BEHAVIOR IN A COMPETITIVE ELECTRICITY MARKET *

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  • Market Design and Price Behavior in Restructured Electricity Markets: An International Comparison

    Frank A. Wolak

  • Market Design and Price Behavior in Restructured Electricity Markets: An International Comparison

    Frank A. Wolak

  • Residential Customer Response to Real-time Pricing: The Anaheim Critical Peak Pricing Experiment

    Frank A. Wolak

  • The effect of domestic antidumping law in the presence of foreign monopoly

    Robert W. Staiger;Frank A. Wolak

  • An Econometric Analysis of the Asymmetric Information, Regulator-Utility Interaction

    Frank A. Wolak

  • Strategic Use of Antidumping Law to Enforce Tacit International Collusion

    Robert Staiger;Frank A. Wolak

  • Diagnosing Market Power in California's Deregulated Wholesale Electricity Market

    Severin Borenstein;James Bushnell;Frank Wolak

  • Identification and Estimation of Cost Functions Using Observed Bid Data: An Application to Electricity Markets

    Frank A. Wolak

  • Chapter 64 Structural Econometric Modeling: Rationales and Examples from Industrial Organization

    Peter C. Reiss;Frank A. Wolak

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Staiger
Robert W. Staiger Dartmouth College
James Bushnell
James Bushnell University of California, Davis
Severin Borenstein
Severin Borenstein University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin F. Hobbs
Benjamin F. Hobbs Johns Hopkins University
Charles D. Kolstad
Charles D. Kolstad Stanford University
Bernard Salanié
Bernard Salanié Columbia University
Matthew J. Kotchen
Matthew J. Kotchen Yale University
Ram Rajagopal
Ram Rajagopal Stanford University

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