The Economics of Decarbonizing Industrial Production
Organized by Lint Barrage and Kenneth Gillingham
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
December 8-9, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Parkview Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Friday, December 8
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am
Introductions
9:40 am

The Effects of Carbon Pricing along the Production Network (slides)

Ralf Martin, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Mirabelle Muûls, Imperial College London
Thomas Stoerk, National Bank of Belgium & London School of Economics
10:40 am
Break
10:55 am

Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing (slides)

Jonathan Hawkins-Pierot, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Katherine R.H. Wagner, University of British Columbia
11:55 am
Lunch and Keynote Address #1, Kelly Visconti, U.S. Department of Energy
Parkview Room
1:20 pm

The Costs and Distributional Impacts of Decarbonizing the Iron and Steel Industry in the United States (slides)

Paulina Jaramillo, Carnegie Mellon University
Valerie J. Karplus, Carnegie Mellon University
Petrus Christiaan Pistorius, Carnegie Mellon University
Edson R. Severnini, Boston College and NBER
2:20 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Public Health Co-benefits of Decarbonizing Industrial Production in Europe (slides)

Laure B. de Preux, Imperial College London
Yixuan Gu, University of Mannheim
Daven K. Henze, University of Colorado Boulder
Ulrich J. Wagner, University of Mannheim
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Keynote Address #2, Brian Storey, Toyota Research Institute
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Dinner, Charles Room A
Saturday, December 9
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Measuring the Clean Energy Transition and its Distributional Impacts (slides)

John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
Eva Lyubich, U.S. Census Bureau
Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
9:30 am

Macroeconomic Effects of the Universe of EPA Regulations (slides)

Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER
Vladimir Smirnyagin, University of Virginia
Xi Wu, University of California, Berkeley
10:30 am
Break
10:50 am

Auctions to Procure Negative Emissions at Industrial Scale (slides)

Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future
Charles A. Holt, University of Virginia
Åsa Löfgren, University of Gothenburg
William Shobe, University of Virginia
11:50 am

Low-Carbon Investment Incentives and Climate Policy (slides)

Sarah C. Armitage, Boston University
Nathan H. Miller, Georgetown University and NBER
Matthew J. Osborne, University of Toronto
Gretchen Sileo, Temple University
12:50 pm
Adjourn and Lunch, Somerset Room