NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Environmental Economics Working Group Meeting

 

Don Fullerton, Organizer

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

April 6-7, 2007

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 6:

 

 

12:20 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:20 pm

First Paper is Joint with Public Economics Meeting

 

 

 

MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER

 

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: 

 

Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the U.S.

 

(Joint with Olivier Deschenes)

 

 

 

Discussant:  ROBERT MENDELSOHN, Yale University

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:50 pm

GILBERT METCALF, Tufts University and NBER

 

Energy Conservation in the United States:

 

Understanding its Role in Climate Policy

 

 

 

Discussant:  CATHERINE WOLFRAM, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

4:00 pm

Break

 

 

4:20 pm

CHARLES KOLSTAD, UC, Santa Barbara

 

Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty

 

(Joint with Nicholas Burger)

 

 

 

Discussant:  TALBOT PAGE, Brown University

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

5:40 pm

Shuttle van departs NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

6:30 pm

Dinner

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel – Skyline Room

 

 

 

Speaker:  RICHARD MORGENSTERN, Resources for the Future

 

Economists and the Policy Process:  The Changing Landscape

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 7:

 

 

8:00 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:40 am

NATHANIEL KEOHANE, Yale University

 

ERIN MANSUR, Yale University and NBER

 

Averting Enforcement: 

 

Strategic Response to the Threat of Environmental Regulation

 

(Joint with Andrey Voynov)

 

 

 

Discussant:  LOUIS KAPLOW, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:10 am

MATTHEW KOTCHEN, UC, Santa Barbara

 

Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads: 

 

A Theory of Environmental Offsets

 

 

 

Discussant:  GEOFFREY HEAL, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

11:20 am

WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University and NBER

 

The Economics of Hurricanes in the United States

 

 

 

Discussant:  WOLFRAM SCHLENKER, Columbia University

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3/29/07