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Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development; Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in Economics; Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Senior Fellow by courtesy

Department of Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6072

wolak@zia.stanford.edu
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Frank A. Wolak is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His fields of specialization are Industrial Organization and Econometric Theory. His recent work studies methods for introducing competition into infrastructure industries -- telecommunications, electricity, water delivery and postal delivery services -- and on assessing the impacts of these competition policies on consumer and producer welfare. He is the Chairman of the Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent System Operator for electricity supply industry in California. He is a visiting scholar at University of California Energy Institute and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Professor Wolak received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Harvard University and his B.A. from Rice University.


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5-day delivery no sure cure for postal woes, economist says
... postal rate increases have already combined to shrink household demand, according to a 2008 study by Hong and Stanford University economist Frank Wolak.
November 23, 2009 in ScienceBlog.com (blog)