NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007

 

Workshop on Public Policy and the Environment

 

John A. List and Roberton Williams, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles AB Room

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 23-24, 2007

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

 8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:20 am

Welcome and Introductions

 

 

 8:30 am

LARRY KARP, UC, Berkeley

 

JINHUA ZHAO, Iowa State University

 

A Proposal to Reform the Kyoto Protocol: the Role of Escape Clauses and Farsight

 

 

 

Discussant:  BILLY PIZER, Resources for the Future

 

 

9:30 am

DAVID KELLY, University of Miami

 

Subsidies to Industry and the Environment

 

 

 

Discussant:  IAN PARRY, Resources for the Future

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am 

MICHAEL HOEL, University of Oslo

 

AART DE ZEEUW, Tilburg University

 

International Cooperation to Promote Technologies Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

 

 

 

Discussant:  SCOTT BARRETT, Johns Hopkins University

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

Research Sketches

 

 

2:00 pm 

MOLLY LIPSCOMB and MUSHFIQ MOBARAK, University of Colorado at Boulder

 

The Costs of Decentralization: Water Quality Spillovers from the Re-drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil

 

 

 

Discussant:  MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 3:00 pm 

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm 

GARTH HEUTEL, Harvard University

 

Crowding Out of Private Donations and Government Grants: Evidence from Environmental Charities

 

 

 

Discussant:  ANDREAS LANGE, University of Maryland

 

 

 4:30 pm 

DAVID DRUKKER,  Stata Corporation

 

DANIEL MILLIMET, Southern Methodist University

 

Assessing the Pollution Haven Hypothesis in an Interdependent World

 

 

 5:15 pm 

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

Dinner Speaker:  LARRY GOULDER, Stanford University and NBER

 

California's Climate Policy:  Cap-and-Trade Confronts Its Skeptics

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

 8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:30 am 

MEREDITH FOWLIE, University of Michigan

 

CHRISTOPHER KNITTEL, UC, Davis and NBER

 

CATHERINE WOLFRAM, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Sacred Cars? Optimal Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary Pollution Sources

 

 

 

Discussant:  ERIN MANSUR, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 9:30 am 

ARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER

 

Technology, Globalization, and Pollution from US Manufacturing

 

 

 

Discussant:  WAYNE GRAY, Clark University and NBER

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

NICHOLAS MULLER Middlebury College

 

ROBERT MENDELSOHN, Yale University

 

Efficient Polution Regulations:  Getting the Prices Right

 

 

 

Discussant:  CHARLES MASON, University of Wyoming

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm 

JAMES SALLEE, University of Michigan

 

Tax Credits and the Market for Hybrid Electric Vehicles

 

 

 

Discussant:  CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 2:00 pm 

CHRISTOPHER TIMMINS, Duke University

 

THOMAS DELEIRE, Michigan State University

 

Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life

 

 

 

Discussant:  JOE ALDY, Resources for the Future

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:15 pm 

ALEXANDER PFAFF, Duke University

 

JUAN ANDRES ROBALINO, CATIE

 

G. ARTURO SANCHEZ-AZOFEIFA, University of Alberta

 

Payments for Environmental Services:  Empirical Analysis for Costa Rica

 

 

 

Discussant:  JOSHUA GRAFF-ZIVIN, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 4:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/18/07