Environment and Energy Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Wolfram Schlenker, Don Fullerton, larry_goulder, and Lawrence H. Goulder
March 28-29, 2013
NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Thursday, March 28

1

The Impact of Electricity Sector Restructuring on Coal-fired Power Plants in India

Maureen L. Cropper, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Kabir Malik, University of Maryland, College Park
Alexander Limonov, Resources for the Future
Anoop Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

2

A Primer on Discounting Climate Risks

Martin Weitzman, Harvard University

3

Air Pollution and Children's Respiratory Health: A Cohort Analysis

Timothy Beatty, University of California, Davis
Jay Shimshack, University of Virginia

4

Fish, Floods and Farmers: The Joint Production of Ecosystem Services on a Working Landscape

Cloe Garnache, University of Oslo

5

The Simple Economics of Commodity Price Speculation

Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Robert S. Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

6

Vehicle Scrappage and Gasoline Policy

Mark R. Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Arthur van Benthem, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

7

Free Riders and the High Cost of Energy-Eciency Subsidies

Judson P. Boomhower, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Lucas W. Davis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

8

How Does Temperature Affect Land Values in the East of the US?

Emanuele Massetti, Yale University
Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University
Shun Chonabayashi, Soka University

9

Using Information to Improve the Effectiveness of Nonlinear Pricing: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER
Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER