Max's research focuses on environmental and resource economics, energy economics, and applied econometrics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Humboldt Foundation Fellow, and an author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Professor Auffhammer serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and has been published in numerous academic journals including The American Economic Review, the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, and The Energy Journal.