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Dr Jason Harold

BA,MA,PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer Above The Bar
School of Business & Economics
University of Galway
E: jason.harold@universityofgalway.ie

Biography

Dr. Jason Harold is a Lecturer in Economics and Finance at the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at University of Galway. He was based at the ESRI from June 2017 to August 2018 in the Collaborative Research of Decentralisation, Electrification, Communications and Economics (CREDENCE) project. He was awarded his PhD in Economics in NUI Galway and the title of his thesis was ‘Empirical Essays on Consumer Engagement and Heterogeneity in Residential Energy Demand’. He holds a BA degree in Economics and Finance and a MA degree in Financial Engineering, both from NUI Maynooth, as well as a MA degree in Economic Policy Evaluation and Planning from NUI Galway. During his PhD, he worked as a lecturer and teaching assistant in NUI Galway and was also a visiting research scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to commencing his PhD, he worked as an intern for the ESRI.

Research Projects

	Project	Start Date	End Date
	Maximising the Flexibility of Energy Consumption in Ireland	01-JAN-24	31-JAN-28

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2024)	'Star help and knowledge transfer: an event study analysis of star interactions observed from acknowledgement texts' Akhil Sasidharan, Jason Harold and John McHale (2024) 'Star help and knowledge transfer: an event study analysis of star interactions observed from acknowledgement texts'. Journal Of Technology Transfer, :1-49 [DOI] [Details]
	(2023)	'Stars as catalysts: an event-study analysis of the impact of star-scientist recruitment on local research performance in a small open economy' McHale, John and Harold, Jason and Mei, Jen-Chung and Sasidharan, Akhil and Yadav, Anil (2023) 'Stars as catalysts: an event-study analysis of the impact of star-scientist recruitment on local research performance in a small open economy'. Journal Of Economic Geography, 23 (2):342-369 [DOI] [Details]
	(2021)	'Drivers of People's Preferences for Spatial Proximity to Energy Infrastructure Technologies: A Cross-country Analysis' Harold, Jason and Bertsch, Valentin and Lawrence, Thomas and Hall, Margeret (2021) 'Drivers of People's Preferences for Spatial Proximity to Energy Infrastructure Technologies: A Cross-country Analysis'. The Energy Journal, 42 :47-90 [DOI] [Details]
	(2021)	'Preferences for curtailable electricity contracts: Can curtailment benefit consumers and the electricity system?' Harold, Jason,Bertsch, Valentin,Fell, Harrison (2021) 'Preferences for curtailable electricity contracts: Can curtailment benefit consumers and the electricity system?'. Energy Economics, 102 [Details]
	(2021)	'The Disconnected: Covid-19 and Disparities in Access to Quality Broadband for Higher Education Students' Cullinan J, Flannery D, Harold J, Lyons S, Palcic D (2021) 'The Disconnected: Covid-19 and Disparities in Access to Quality Broadband for Higher Education Students'. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, [Details]
	(2020)	'Why do preferences for electricity services differ? Domestic appliance curtailment contracts in Ireland' John Curtis and Gianluca Grilli and William Brazil and Jason Harold (2020) 'Why do preferences for electricity services differ? Domestic appliance curtailment contracts in Ireland'. Energy Research & Social Science, 69 [DOI] [Details]
	(2019)	'Consumer switching in European retail markets' Harold, Jason and Cullinan, John and Lyons, Seán (2019) 'Consumer switching in European retail markets'. Oxford Economic Papers, [DOI] [Details]
	(2018)	'Heterogeneity and Persistence in the Effect of Demand Side Management Stimuli on Residential Gas Consumption' Harold, Jason and Lyons, Seán and Cullinan, John (2018) 'Heterogeneity and Persistence in the Effect of Demand Side Management Stimuli on Residential Gas Consumption'. Energy Economics, [DOI] [Details]
	(2017)	'The income elasticity of household energy demand: a quantile regression analysis' Harold, J and Cullinan, J and Lyons, Seán (2017) 'The income elasticity of household energy demand: a quantile regression analysis'. Applied Economics, 49 (54):5570-5578 [DOI] [Details]
	(2015)	'The determinants of residential gas demand in Ireland' Harold, Jason and Lyons, Seán and Cullinan, John (2015) 'The determinants of residential gas demand in Ireland'. Energy Economics, 51 :475-483 [DOI] [Details]

Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2021)	'Irish science policy: a case study in evidence-based policy design for small open economies' Cullina, Eoin,Harold, Jason,McHale, John (2021) 'Irish science policy: a case study in evidence-based policy design for small open economies' In: Policy Analysis in Ireland. UK: Policy Press. [Details]

Conference Publications

	Year	Publication
	(2018)	*Transforming Energy Markets, 41st IAEE International Conference, Jun 10-13, 2018* Harold, Jason and Cullinan, John and Lyons, Se\'an (2018) Consumer Switching in European Energy Markets Transforming Energy Markets, 41st IAEE International Conference, Jun 10-13, 2018 [Details]

Published Reports

	Year	Publication
	(2018)	Differences in household responses to feedback on their gas consumption. Harold, Jason and Lyons, Seán and Cullinan, John and others (2018) Differences in household responses to feedback on their gas consumption. Economic and Social Research institute, Dublin. [Details]
	(2017)	How much extra energy does a household use when its income rises? The answer depends on how much energy it uses in the first place. Harold, Jason and Cullinan, John and Lyons, Seán and others (2017) How much extra energy does a household use when its income rises? The answer depends on how much energy it uses in the first place. Economic and Social Research institute, Dublin. [Details]

ANET/COS

	Year	Publication
	(2018)	Drivers of people's preferences for spatial proximity to energy infrastructure technologies: a cross-country analysis. Harold, Jason and Bertsch, Valentin and Lawrence, Thomas and Hall, Magie and others (2018) Drivers of people's preferences for spatial proximity to energy infrastructure technologies: a cross-country analysis. ANET/COS [Details]