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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Environmental & Energy Economics

John List, and V. Kerry Smith, Organizers

July 20-21, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles Suite
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Monday, July 20
8:00 am	Coffee and pastries
8:20 am	Welcome
8:30 am	Meredith Fowlie, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Catherine Wolfram, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Anna Spurlock, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Peter Cappers, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Default Eects, Follow-on Behavior and Welfare in Residential Electricity Pricing Programs Discussant: Michael Price, Georgia State University and NBER
9:30 am	Hunt Allcott, New York University and NBER Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER Maximising Money vs. Utility: Measuring the Welfare Effects of Energy Efficiency Programs Discussant: Nicolai Kuminoff, Arizona State University and NBER
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Research Sketches – Eggtimer Jesse Burkhardt, Yale University Markups, Marginal Costs, and Emissions Policy Choice in the U.S. Oil Refining Industry Eyal Frank, Columbia University Farmers, Bats, and Pesticides Use: Using White Nose Syndrome to Learn about the Beneficial Spillover Effects of Bats on Farmers Teevrat Garg, Cornell University Public Health Effects of Ecosystem Degradation: Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia Evan Herrnstadt University of Michigan Conservation Versus Competition? Environmental Objectives in Government Contracting Shawn McCoy, University of Pittsburgh Risk, Salience, & Investment in Residential Housing Chris Severen, University of California, Santa Barbara Coastal Land Use Regulation and Amenities Ivan Rudik, Iowa State University Negative Emissions Leakage: Impacts of Energy Policy Spillovers Ashley Vissing, Duke University Private Negotiations between Landowners and Firms for Rights to Shale Gas Resources Andrew Waxman, Cornell University Divergent Effects of Transportation Policies by Worker Skill in a Locational Sorting Model Xueying Yu, University of Michigan Forest Loss, Monetary Compensation, and Delayed Re-planting: The Effects of Unpredictable Land Tenure in China
12:00 noon	Lunch
1:30 pm	H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University and NBER Panel Data Hedonics: Rosen's First Stage and Difference-in-Differences as "Sufficient Statistics" Discussant: W. Reed Walker, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
2:30 pm	Verena Tiefenbeck, ETH Zurich Lorenz Goette, Université de Lausanne Kathrin Degen, University of Lausanne Vojkan Tasic, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich University Elgar Fleisch, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich University Rafael Lalive, University of Lausanne Thorsten Staake, University of Bamberg Overcoming Salience Bias: How Real-Time Feedback Fosters Resource Conservation Discussant: Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Ceren Baysan, University of California at Berkeley Marshall Burke, Stanford University Solomon M. Hsiang, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Edward Miguel, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Felipe Gonzalez, University of California at Berkeley Economic and Non-Economic Factors in Violence: Evidence from Organized Crime, Suicides and Climate in Mexico Discussant: Matthew Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 21
8:00 am	Coffee and pastries
Morning parallel sessions 8:30 – 12:00
Session A
8:30 am	Greer K. Gosnell, London School of Economics John List, University of Chicago and NBER Robert Metcalfe, University of Chicago The Behavioralist Takes Flight: Leveraging Field Experiments to Lower Carbon Emissions from Airplanes Discussant: Justine Hastings, Brown University and NBER
9:30 am	Marc A. Jeuland, Duke University Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University Jie Sheng Tan Soo, Duke University Preference Heterogeneity and Adoption of Environmental Health Improvements: Evidence from a Cookstove Promotion Experiment Discussant: Daniel J. Phaneuf, University of Wisconsin, Madison
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Jonathan A. Cook, Nexant, Incorporated Cynthia Lin, University of California at Davis Wind Turbine Shutdowns and Upgrades in Denmark: Timing Decisions and the Impact of Government Policy Discussant: Corey Lang, University of Rhode Island
Session B
8:30 am	Ravi Bansal, Duke University and NBER Dana Kiku, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Marcelo Ochoa, Federal Reserve Board Climate Change and Growth Risks Discussant: Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University
9:30 am	Frederick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford Aart de Zeeuw, Tilburg University Climate Tipping and Economic Growth: Precautionary Capital and the Price of Carbon Discussant: Billy Pizer, Duke University
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Ian Parry, International Monetary Fund How Much Carbon Pricing is in Countries’ Own Interests? The Critical Role of Co-Benefits Discussant: Lawrence Goulder, Stanford University and NBER
12:00 noon	Lunch
1:00 pm	Judson P. Boomhower, University of California at Berkeley Drilling Like There's No Tomorrow: Bankruptcy, Insurance, and Environmental Risk Discussant: Ryan Kellogg, University of Michigan and NBER
2:00 pm	Bryan Bollinger, Duke University Wesley Hartmann, Stanford University Welfare Effects of Home Automation Technology with Dynamic Pricing Discussant: Thomas Covert, University of Chicago
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Steve Cicala, University of Chicago and NBER Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in U.S. Electricity Generation Discussant: Roberton Williams, University of Maryland and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn