Ian H. Hardman

I am a PhD candidate in the Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) at UC Berkeley and a graduate student affiliate at the Energy Institute at Haas. Additionally, I am a Research Affiliate at Stanford University's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD).

I am an applied microeconomist who studies how environmental regulation and liability rules shape firm behavior in extractive industries. My research focuses on end-of-life decisions: whether and when firms decommission aging and marginal assets, and who bears the cost if they do not.

Primary fields: Energy and Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization