
	Thursday, March 14
10:00 am	Burning Waters to Crystal Springs? U.S. Water Pollution Regulation Over the Last Half Century David Keiser, University of Massachusetts Amherst Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Discussant: Sheila Olmstead, University of Texas at Austin
11:00 am	Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation Stephen P. Holland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER Erin T. Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER Nicholas Muller, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Andrew J. Yates, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Discussant: Arik Levinson, Georgetown University and NBER
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Pigou Creates Losers: On the Implausibility of Achieving Pareto Improvements from Pigouvian Taxation (slides) James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Discussant: Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University and NBER
2:00 pm	Estimating the Consequences of Climate Change from Variation in Weather (discussant slides) Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona and NBER Discussant: Robert S. Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Out-of-merit Costs and Blackouts:Evidence from the Indian Electricity Market Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Louis Preonas, University of Maryland Discussant: Shaun McRae, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
4:30 pm	Contract Enforcement and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from the Bidding and Renegotiation of Power Contracts in India Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER Discussant: Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:15 pm	Group Dinner Indo Restaurant, 3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
	Friday, March 15
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Housing Discrimination and the Pollution Exposure Gap in the United States Peter Christensen, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER Ignacio Sarmiento, University of Los Andes Christopher Timmins, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Discussant: Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
9:30 am	The Effect of Salience on Risk Perceptions and Asset Prices Cloe Garnache, University of Oslo Todd Guilfoos, University of Rhode Island Discussant: Lint Barrage, ETH Zurich
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate Jonathan I. Dingel, University of Chicago and NBER Kyle C. Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Solomon M. Hsiang, Stanford University and NBER Discussant: Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	The Value of Pollution Information: Evidence from China’s Air Quality Disclosure Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER Liguo Lin, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Eric Zou, University of Michigan and NBER Discussant: Joshua S. Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego and NBER
2:00 pm	Setting the Price Right: Evidence from Heating Price Reform in China Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER Shuang Zhang, Imperial College London Discussant: Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
3:00 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Michael L. Anderson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Soren T. Anderson, Michigan State University and NBER
Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
H. Spencer Banzhaf, North Carolina State University and NBER
Lint Barrage, ETH Zurich
Alan Barreca, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Antonio Bento, University of Southern California and NBER
Judson Boomhower, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER
James B. Bushnell, University of California, Davis and NBER
Meghan R. Busse, Northwestern University and NBER
Tamma Carleton, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Peter Christensen, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER
Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
Lucas W. Davis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Olivier Deschenes, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Eyal G. Frank, University of Chicago and NBER
Don Fullerton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Cloe Garnache, University of Oslo
Lawrence H. Goulder, Stanford University and NBER
Joshua S. Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Stephen P. Holland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER
Solomon M. Hsiang, Stanford University and NBER
Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER
Kelsey Jack, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Mark R. Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER

David A. Keiser, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER
Charles D. Kolstad, Stanford University and NBER
Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER
Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona and NBER
Arik Levinson, Georgetown University and NBER
Jing Li, Tufts University
Erin T. Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER
Shaun McRae, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Kyle C. Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University and NBER
Nolan H. Miller, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
David Molitor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Erich Muehlegger, University of California, Davis and NBER
Sheila Olmstead, University of Texas at Austin
Robert S. Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Louis Preonas, University of Maryland
Steven L. Puller, Texas A&M University and NBER
David S. Rapson, University of California, Davis
Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER
James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Wolfram Schlenker, Harvard University and NBER
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jeffrey G. Shrader, Columbia University
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Jeremy D. West, University of California at Santa Cruz
Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER
Catherine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Andrew J. Yates, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER
Shuang Zhang, Imperial College London
Eric Zou, University of Michigan and NBER