NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Environmental Economics Working Group Meeting

 

Don Fullerton, Organizer

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

April 7-8, 2006

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 7:

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Joint session for last presentation of the Public Economics Program:

 

 

 

NATHANIEL KEOHANE, Yale University

 

Migration and Hedonic Valuation: The Case of Air Quality

 

(joint with Patrick Bayer and Christopher Timmins)

 

 

 

Discussant: KENNETH CHAY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:50 pm

MEREDITH FOWLIE, UC, Berkeley

 

Emissions Trading, Electricity Industry Restructuring, and Investment in Pollution Abatement

 

 

 

Discussant: ERIN MANSUR, Yale University

 

 

4:00 pm

Break

 

 

4:20 pm

ALEXANDER PFAFF, Columbia University

 

Can Information Alone Change Behavior? Response to Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Bangladesh

 

(joint with M. Madajewicz, A. van Geen, J. Graziano, I. Hussein, H. Momotaj, R. Sylvi, and H. Ahsan)

 

 

 

Discussant: DAVID BLOOM, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

5:45 pm

Shuttle van departs NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

6:30 pm

Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel (University Room)

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 8:

 

 

7:45 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

STEPHEN POLASKY, University of Minnesota

 

Environmental Regulation in a Dynamic Model with Uncertainty and Investment

 

(joint with Nori Tarui)

 

 

 

Discussant: LARRY KARP, UC, Berkeley

 

 

9:40 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

WILLIAM PIZER, Resources for the Future

 

Indexed Regulation

 

(joint with Richard Newell)

 

 

 

Discussant: IAN SUE WING, Boston University

 

 

11:10 am

HILARY SIGMAN, Rutgers University and NBER

 

Environmental Liability and Redevelopment of Old Industrial Land

 

 

 

Discussant: KATHLEEN SEGERSON, University of Connecticut

 

 

12:20 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3/17/06