Frank Wolak, MS, PhD
- Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
- Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in Economics
- Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
- Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Stanford University
Economics Department
579 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305-6072
Biography
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.
