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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

The Economics of Energy Markets Preconference

Richard G. Newell, Meredith Fowlie, Christopher R. Knittel, and James M. Poterba, Organizers

April 13, 2016

NBER, 3rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 13
8:30 am	Continental breakfast
9:00 am	Welcome and introductions
9:15 am	Sharat Ganapati , Yale University Joseph S. Shapiro, Yale University and NBER Reed Walker, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Energy Prices, Pass-Through, and Incidence in U.S. Manufacturing
10:00 am	Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University Nicholas Muller, Middlebury College and NBER Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER External Economies of Shipping Energy Fuels
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Gabriel E. Lade, Iowa State University Ivan J. Rudik, Iowa State University Prices, Quantities, and Gas Capture Infrastructure: Reducing Flaring in North Dakota
11:45 am	Christiane J.S. Baumeister, University of Notre Dame Reinhard Ellwanger, Bank of Canada Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan Did the Renewable Fuel Standard Shift Market Expectations of the Price of Ethanol?
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Richard G. Newell, Duke University and NBER Brian C. Prest, Duke University Informing SPR Drawdown Policy Using Futures Strips
2:00 pm	Joseph E. Aldy, Harvard University and NBER Boutique Fuel Markets and Security-Environment-Economic Trade-offs
2:45 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER Managing the Reliability Risk and the Consumer and Producer Cost of Intermittent Renewables Integration
4:00 pm	Steven E. Sexton, Duke University Bryan Bollinger, Duke University Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University and NBER Household Demand for Solar PV and Price Discriminating Subsidies
4:45 pm	Connections, Data Needs, and Next Steps
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Dinner - Puritan & Company, 1166 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA