College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

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Soren Anderson is a tenured Associate Professor. He joined MSU in 2008 and holds joint appointments in the Department of Economics and the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in economics from Macalester College. He has studied a range of issues in energy and environmental economics. The majority of his work focuses on markets for cars and the fuels they use, including oil, gasoline, biofuels, and electricity. More recent work studies the political economy of carbon taxes. His research is published in the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Journal of Industrial Economics among other journals. He is appointed as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously served on the board of directors for the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, as a visiting researcher at the Energy Institute at Haas at UC Berkeley, as a staff economist with the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and as a research assistant at Resources for the Future.

Research and Outreach Interests

• Energy and environmental economics

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Teaching Experience

• AFRE 829: Economics of Environmental Resources (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
• AEC 835: Introductory Econometrics (2010)
• EC 499: Energy Economics and Policy (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)
• EC 420: Introduction to Econometrics (2009, 2010)