Daniel Kaffine

Daniel Kaffine is a 2025 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and professor in the Department of Economics and an institute fellow in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. Recent and ongoing research projects examine the impacts of the rapidly increasing role of renewable energy in the electricity sector, the intersection of energy and environmental policy, and the role of property rights and institutions in natural resource use and conservation. He is currently an associate editor at Resource and Energy Economics and European Economic Review. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2007, and received his B.S. and B.A. from the University of Saint Thomas in 2002. His research has appeared in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Nature Communications, Nature Energy, Nature Sustainability, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Review of Economics and Statistics.