Carnegie Mellon University

Nicholas Muller

Nicholas Z. Muller

Lester and Judith Lave Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy, Tepper School of Business, Engineering and Public Policy

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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 estimating individual discount rates and risk preferences using historical pricing data, comparing air pollution and climate damages from electric vehicles to conventional vehicles, estimating air pollution damage from energy production, measuring the impact of transporting freight in the United State on air pollution and climate, and analyzing the inequality in market and augmented measures of income. He teaches microeconomics and environmental and natural resource economics and has published papers in the American Economic Review, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.

Education

  • Ph.D., Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Yale University, 2007
  • MPA, Environmental Policy & Public Financial Administration, Indiana University, 2002
  • BS, Public Policy, Planning, and Management, University of Oregon, 1996


Muller speaks about his research on the impact environmental negligence has on economic disparity.


Muller studies how greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution affect the US economy and GDP.