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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

Don Fullerton and Matthew E. Kahn Organizers

March 26-27, 2015

NBER

2rd floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, March 26:
11:45 am	Shuttle Van (1) Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Ann Ferris, Environmental Protection Agency Wayne B. Gray, Clark University and NBER Ronald Shadbegian, Environmental Protection Agency Ann Wolverton, Environmental Protection Agency Do Renewable Portfolio Standards Affect Manufacturing Activity Through Higher Electricity Prices? Discussant: Reed Walker, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
2:00 pm	Lucas W. Davis, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University and NBER Does Better Information Lead to Better Choices? Evidence from Energy-Efficiency Labels Discussant: Matthew Harding, Duke University
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Garth Heutel, Georgia State University and NBER Juan Moreno Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology Soheil Shayegh, Carnegie Institution of Washington Solar Geoengineering, Uncertainty, and the Social Cost of Carbon Discussant: Charles Kolstad, Stanford University and NBER
4:30 pm	Stephen P. Holland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER Erin T. Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER Nicholas Muller, Middlebury College and NBER Andrew Yates, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Measuring the Spatial Heterogeneity in Environmental Externalities from Driving: A Comparison of Gasoline and Electric Vehicles Discussant: Matthew Kahn, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
5:30 pm	Adjourn
5:30 pm	Shuttle Vans (2) Depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:30 pm	Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel, 5 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA Speaker: Matthew Kahn, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER How Cities and Urbanites Will Adapt to Climate Change
Friday, March 27:
8:15 am	Shuttle Vans (2) Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University David Nagy, Princeton University Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding Discussant: Joseph Shapiro, Yale University and NBER
10:00 am	Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of Toronto Matthew Turner, University of Toronto Subways and Urban Growth Discussant: Kenneth Small, University of California at Irvine
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Christopher Timmins, Duke University and NBER Ashley Vissing, Duke University Valuing Leases for Shale Gas Development Discussant: Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Christiane J.S. Baumeister, Bank of Canada Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan A General Approach to Recovering Market Expectations from Futures Prices With an Application to Crude Oil Discussant: Robert Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
2:30 pm	Mark R. Jacobsen, University of California at San Diego and NBER Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER James M. Sallee, University of Chicago and NBER Arthur van Benthem, University of Pennsylvania and NBER The Implications of Heterogeneity for the Regulation of Energy-Consuming Durable Goods Discussant: Meghan Busse, Northwestern University and NBER
3:30 pm	Adjourn