
Chris Telmer
Associate Professor, Financial Economics Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh PA
Chris Telmer's research includes the effect of government subsidies on the financing of renewable energy assets.
Biography
Areas of Expertise
Media Appearances
Solar+storage can outcompete “mid-merit” gas units, not just peakers
PV Magazine online
2019-04-22
“A key aspect of the analysis is novel,” said Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) finance professor Chris Telmer, who together with CMU professor Jay Apt supervised the seven Carnegie Mellon MBA students who conducted the analysis. “The students got data on what hundreds of mid-merit NGCC plants are doing and then specified solar+storage assets in order to replicate the NGCC ‘jobs being done.’”
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Accomplishments
George Leland Bach Award for MBA Teaching
2001
Undergraduate Teaching Award
1995
Education
Queen's University
Ph.D.
Economics
1991
Queen's University
M.A.
Economics
1989
University of Western Ontario
B.A.
Economics
1986
Articles
Microeconomic sources of real exchange rate variation
Review of Economic Dynamics2020
We provide a series of variance decompositions based on a panel data set of international goods prices. The panel spans 301 goods and services across 123 cities from 78 countries over the years 1990-2015. We analyze good-by-good deviations from the Law of One Price (LOP) for all bilateral city pairs and time periods. Our main finding is that variation within the LOP distribution is large relative to how the distribution itself moves over time.
The informational content of surnames, the evolution of intergenerational mobility, and assortative mating
The Review of Economic Studies2015
We propose a new methodology for measuring intergenerational mobility in economic well-being. Our method is based on the joint distribution of surnames and economic outcomes. It circumvents the need for intergenerational panel data, a long-standing stumbling block for understanding mobility.