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Noah Dormady

Associate Professor

Biography

Dr. Noah Dormady teaches and conducts research in the areas of applied public policy analysis, energy policy, environmental policy, economic resilience, risk and decision analysis, and terrorism and natural hazards.

Dormady’s work has been published in a broad array of government publications and academic peer-reviewed journals including Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, Risk Analysis, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the International Journal of Production Economics, Natural Hazards Review, the Journal of Public Policy, and the Journal of Commodity Markets. He serves as Associate Editor for Natural Hazards Review and the Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy.

His work has been funded by an array of federal, state, private and nonprofit organizations. These include the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the US Department of Energy (DOE), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Center for the Middle Market, the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation and the Center for Climate Strategies.

He is a fellow at two U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Centers of Excellence; the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI) at the University of Illinois, and the Center for Risk and the Economic Analysis of Threats and Emergencies (CREATE) at the University of Southern California. He is the 2012 co-recipient of the national REMI Award for Economic Analysis from Regional Economic Models Inc.

Dormady received his doctorate from the University of Southern California (USC). He is a proud father, and a husband of almost 20 years.

Finding a Black Cat in a Coal Cellar
December 17, 2024

Noah Dormady's study of Ohio’s retail electricity markets finds majority of retail electric supply offers don't save customers money.

Methods and lessons for business resilience and recovery surveys
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
October 31, 2023

Noah Dormady and colleagues address the lack of tailored guidance for conducting business resilience and recovery surveys by collecting and synthesizing instruments and best practices from previous survey efforts. 

Informational Determinants of Large-area Hurricane Evacuations
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
March 01, 2022

Professor Noah Dormady presents an experimental design that overcomes the counterfactual problem present in all prior published experiments by relying on an actual storm with a known outcome. 

The Cost-Effectiveness of Economic Resilience
International Journal of Production Economics
February 01, 2022

Professor Noah Dormady incorporates resilience into longstanding economic production theory and identifies the key components for evaluating the cost and effectiveness of resilience.

Advances in the Empirical Estimation of Disaster Resilience
Handbook on the Economics of Natural Disasters
November 18, 2021

Professor Noah Dormady summarizes key contributions and advances in the empirical estimation of disaster resilience.

An Experimental Investigation of Resilience Decision Making in Repeated Disasters
Environment Systems & Decisions
June 07, 2021

Noah Dormady, Rob Greenbaum and Kim Young examine resilience decision making in the more realistic context of repeated catastrophic events. 

Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Advances of Economic Resilience with Extensions to Complexity, Entropy and Spatial Dynamics
Handbook on Entropy, Complexity & Spatial Dynamics
March 03, 2021

Professor Noah Dormady presents, further clarifies, and extends the foundations of economic resilience, with an eye to concerns of measurement.

Value of Information on Resilience Decision-Making in Repeated Disaster Environments
Natural Hazards Review
December 16, 2019

Professors Noah Dormady, Rob Greenbaum and Kim Young report on a series of controlled experiments with human subjects on the decision of firms to invest in resilience to mitigate supply-chain disruptions and their willingness to pay for advisory information to improve resilience planning investments.

Bayesian Calibration of Multi-Response Systems via Multivariate Kriging: Methodology and Geological and Geotechnical Case Studies
Engineering Geology
August 03, 2019

Professor Dormady proposes a highly efficient Bayesian updating framework that is integrated with multivariate Kriging surrogate modeling to quantify heteroscedastic uncertainties in the entire space of uncertain system variables and capture spatial and temporal dependencies among the responses using non-separable covariance structure. 

An Intersection of Privatization and Public Utility Regulation: The Ohio State University's Energy Concession Agreement
Utilities Policy
June 13, 2019

Professor Noah Dormady presents a case of a 50-year comprehensive energy concession agreement by The Ohio State University that generated an up-front payment exceeding a billion dollars.

Economic Resilience of the Firm: A Production Theory Approach
International Journal of Production Economics
February 01, 2019

Professor Dormady provides a microeconomic foundation for analyzing the comprehensive range of tactics used by firms and other organizations after catastrophic events. 

The Consignment Mechanism in Carbon Markets: A Laboratory Investigation
Journal of Commodity Markets
August 01, 2018

Professor Dormady details the consignment auction design used in California, in which utilities are allocated a share of emissions permits that they must sell into the uniform-price auction.

Do Markets Make Good Commissioners?: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Retail Electric Restructuring in Ohio
Journal of Public Policy
July 03, 2018

Noah Dormady provides a quasi-experimental analysis of the price impacts of retail electric restructuring in Ohio.

Who Pays for Retail Electric Deregulation? Evidence of Cross-Subsidization from Complete Bill Data
Energy Journal
May 22, 2018

Professor Noah Dormady provides a multi-utility panel regression analysis of the effect of retail deregulation on total electric bills in Ohio.

Sex, Gender, and Disasters: Experimental Evidence on the Decision to Invest in Resilience
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
November 10, 2016

Professors Kim Young, Rob Greenbaum and Noah Dormady use a randomized controlled experimental design to examine whether biological sex or gender diversity might lead to decision-making that improves investments in resilience to calamitous events. 

Office

310N Page Hall

Expertise

Public Policy Analysis; Energy Economics; Energy and Environmental Policy; Economic Resilience; Risk and Decision Analysis; Critical Infrastructure and Homeland Security Policy; Regulation and Deregulation