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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2012 Environmental & Energy Economics

 

John List, H. Spencer Banzhaf, Organizers

 

July 23-24, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles A/B

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 23:


8:00 am


Coffee and Pastries


8:20 am


Welcome


8:30 am


David Rapson, University of California at Davis
Katrina Jessoe, University of California at Davis
Information Feedback and Price Elasticity: An Experiment on Residential Energy Use

Discussant:  Michael Price, University of Tennessee and NBER


9:30 am


Sebastien Houde, Stanford University
How Consumers Respond to Product Certification: A Welfare Analysis of the Energy Star Program

Discussant:  Charles Mason, University of Wyoming


10:30 am


Break


11:00 am


Research Sketches


12:00 n


Lunch


1:15 pm


Fernando Broner, CREI
Paula Bustos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Vasco M. Carvalho, CREI
Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries

Discussant: 
Carol McAusland University of British Columbia


2:15 pm


Break


2:30 pm


Daniel L. Millimet, Southern Methodist University
Jayjit Roy, Appalachian State University
Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous

Discussant:  Arik Levinson, Georgetown University and NBER


3:30 pm


Break


4:00 pm


Ralf Martin, London School of Economics
Mirabelle Muuls, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial Co
Laure B. de Preux, Centre for Health Economics, York University
Ulrich Wagner, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Industry Compensation under Relocation Risk: A Firm-level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Discussant:  Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future


5:00 pm


Adjourn


6:00 pm


Group Dinner
Dinner Speaker
Richard Carson University of California at San Diego


Tuesday, July 24:


8:00 am


Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University and NBER
Jason Scorse, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Does Being a "Top 10" Worst Polluter Affect Environmental Releases? Evidence from the U.S. Toxic Release Inventory >

Discussant: 
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER


9:30 am


Victor Lavy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and NBER
Ambient Air Pollution, Cognitive Performance, and Long Term Consequences for Human Capital Formation

Discussant: 
Jessica Reyes, Amherst College and NBER

10:30 am

Break


11:00 am


Matti Liski, Helsinki School of Economics
Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg Univesity
Carbon Prices for the Next Thousand Years

Discussant: 
David Kelly, University of Miami

12:00 n

Daniel Chen, Duke University
Susan Yeh, Duke University
Growth Under the Shadow of Expropriation? The Economic Impacts of Eminent Domain

Discussant: 
Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University and NBER


1:00 pm


Lunch

After lunch the meeting breaks into parallel sessions:


Room A


Costs of Cap-and-Trade


2:15 pm


Kyle C. Meng, Columbia University
The Cost of Potential Cap-and-Trade Policy: An Event Study using Prediction Markets and Lobbying Records

Discussant:  Linda Bui, Brandeis University


3:15 pm


Mark Curtis, Georgia State University
Who Loses under Power Plant Cap-and-Trade Programs? Estimating the Impact of the NOx Budget Trading Program on Manufacturing Employment

Discussant:  Joseph Shapiro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Room B


Consumer Behavvior and Demand-side Management


2:15 pm


Koichiro Ito, Stanford University
Does Conservation Targeting Work? Evidence from a Statewide Electricity Rebate Program in California

Discussant:  Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER


3:15 pm


Timo Goeschl, Heidelberg University
Johannes H. Diederich, Heidelberg University
Giving in a Large Economy: Price and Non-Price Effects in a Framed Field Experiment on Climate Change

Discussant: 
Andreas Lange, University of Hamburg


4:15 pm


Adjourn