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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

 

Chris Costello and Catherine Wolfram, Organizers

 

Don Fullerton, Program Director

 

January 23-24, 2014

 

SIEPR

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014:

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

Organizers: Chris Costello and Catherine Wolfram

 

1:00 pm

Severin Borenstein University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

James Bushnell, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

Frank Wolak, Stanford University and NBER

Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins, University of California at Berkeley

 

Expecting the Unexpected: Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market Design

 

 

Discussant: Billy Pizer, Duke University and NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

Samuel Bell, Cornell University

 

B. Kelsey Jack, Tufts University and NBER

 

Paulina Oliva, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER

 

Chris Severen, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Elizabeth Walker, Harvard University

 

Uncertainty, Self-selection and the Design of Subsidies: Evidence from Zambia

 

 

 

Discussant:  Alexander Pfaff, Duke University

 

 

3:00 pm

Break

           

3:30 pm

Michael Greenstone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Stephen Ryan, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

 

Michael Yankovich, U.S. Military Academy at West Point

 

The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Military Retention Incentives and Occupation-Specific Mortality

 

 

 

Discussant: Lucas W. Davis, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

 

4:30 pm

Solomon Hsiang, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

Amir Jina, Columbia University

 

The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth

 

 

 

Discussant: Ben Jones, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:15 pm

Group Dinner – Il Fornaio Restaurant, 520 Cowper Street (at the Garden Court Hotel), Palo Alto

 

 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014:

 

 

Morning: Joint IO/EEE Program Meeting

 

Organizers: Severin Borenstein and Catherine Wolfram

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Hunt Allcott and Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University and NBER

 

Stephen O’Connell, City University of New York

 

How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Productivity? Evidence from India

 

 

 

 

Discussant: Nick Ryan, Harvard University

 

 

10:00 am

Louis Kaplow, Harvard University and NBER

 

Optimal Regulation with Exemptions and Corrective Taxes

 

 

 

Discussant: Carl Shapiro, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Soren T. Anderson, Michigan State University and NBER

 

Ryan Kellogg, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Stephen W. Salant, University of Michigan

 

Hotelling under Pressure

 

 

 

Discussant: Stephen Holland, University of North Carolina and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting Resumes

Organizers: Chris Costello and Catherine Wolfram

 

 

1:30 pm

Koichiro Ito, Boston University and NBER                

 

James Sallee, University of Chicago and NBER

 

The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards

 

 

 

Discussant: Meghan R. Busse, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

Joseph Shapiro, Yale University

 

Trade, CO2 and the Environment

 

 

 

Discussant: Carol McAusland, University of British Columbia

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

 

4:00 pm

Christopher Costello, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER

 

Corbett Grainger, University of Wisconsin - Madison

 

Property Rights, Regulatory Capture, and Exploitation of Natural Resources

 

 

 

Discussant: Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn