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BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Integrated Assessment Modeling
Conference
Karen Fisher-Vanden, David Popp, and Ian Sue Wing, Organizers
May 17-18, 2012
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
Thursday, May 17:
7:50 am Shuttle Vans (2) depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:20 am Welcome and overview of the goals of
the workshop
David Popp, Syracuse University and
NBER
John Weyant, Stanford
University
Don Fullerton, University of
Illinois and NBER
Session IEnergy and
Water
Session Chair: Ian Sue Wing, Boston University
8:45 am Sheila
Olmstead, Resources for the Future
Climate Change Adaptation and Water Resource
Management: An Analytical Review of the Current Empirical Economics Literature
9:15 am Claudia Ringler, International Food Policy Research Institute
Climate Change and Water Resources Management: A Review of
Modeling Studies on Impacts and Adaptations
9:45 am Coffee Break
10:00 am Maximilian Auffhammer, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER
Measuring
Climatic Impacts on Energy Expenditures: A Review of the Empirical Literature
10:30 am Juan-Carlos
Ciscar, JRC, European Commission
Paul Dowling, JRC, European
Commission
Review of Literature on Integrated Assessment
of Climate Impacts and Adaptation in the Energy Sector
11:00 am Panel Discussion: Incorporating
empirical energy and water findings into IAMs.
Moderator: Ian Sue Wing, Boston
University
Panelists: Juan-Carlos Ciscar, JRC, European Commission
Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College and
NBER
Emanuele Massetti, Yale
University
Sheila Olmstead, Resources for the Future
Claudia Ringler, International Food Policy Research Institute
11:45 am Lunch
Session IIAgriculture
and Land Use
Session Chair: Karen Fisher-Vanden, Pennsylvania State University
12:45 pm Steven
Rose, EPRI
Climate Change
Adaptation Modeling of Forestry and Pasture Land Use
(via remote connection)
1:30 pm H.
Allen Klaiber, Ohio State University
Migration and Household Adaptation to Climate: A
Review of Empirical Research
2:00 pm Coffee Break
2:30 pm Maximilian
Auffhammer, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Wolfram Schlenker,
Columbia University and NBER
Empirical
Studies on Agricultural Impacts and Adaptation
3:00 pm Thomas
Hertel, Purdue University
David Lobell,
Stanford University
Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in
Rich and Poor Countries: Current Modeling Practice and Potential for Empirical
Contributions
3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Panel Discussion: Incorporating
empirical agricultural and land-use findings into IAMs.
Moderator: Karen Fisher-Vanden, Pennsylvania State University
Panelists: Maximilian Auffhammer, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Thomas Hertel,
Purdue University
H. Allen Klaiber,
Ohio State University
Robert Mendelsohn,
Yale University
Steven Rose, EPRI (via remote
connection)
Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University and NBER
4:45 pm Adjourn
4:50 pm Shuttle Vans (2) depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta
Hotel
6:30 pm Group Dinner
Bambara Restaurant
25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, May 18:
8:20 am Shuttle Vans (2) depart
from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
Session IIIHealth and
Extreme Events
Moderator: David Popp, Syracuse University and NBER
9:00 am Carolyn
Kousky, Resources for the Future
Informing Climate Adaptation: A Review of the Economic
Costs of Natural Disasters, Their Determinants, and Risk Reduction Options
9:30 am Francesco Bosello, FEEM
Enrica De Cian, FEEM
Modeling Impacts and Adaptation to
Sea-Level Rise. A
Review of the Literature
10:30 am Olivier
Deschenes, UC, Santa Barbara and NBER
Climate Change, Human Health, and Adaptation: A
Review of the Empirical Literature
11:00 am David
Anthoff, UC, Berkeley
Review of Modeling Studies on Health Impacts
and Adaptation
12:15 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Discussion: Developing a research
agenda to improve the connection between empirical research and IAMs.
2:45 pm Closing and discussion of the road
forward
3:00 pm Adjourn