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Environment and Energy Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Tamma Carleton, Michael Greenstone, Nicolai V. Kuminoff, and Ishan B. Nath April 30 - May 1, 2026 Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA Format: (1) 45 minutes for presenters with Q&A throughout, 10 minutes for discussants (2) 45 minutes for presenters with Q&A throughout |
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45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
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45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
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| Thursday, April 30 | |
| 8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast
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| 9:00 am |
Pollution Pricing in Equilibrium: Production, Reallocation, and Aggregate Impacts
Discussant:
Devesh Raval, Federal Trade Commission |
| 9:55 am |
Cutting Costs or Cutting Corners: Capital Reallocation of Oil and Gas Wells
Discussant:
Richard L. Sweeney, Boston College |
| 10:50 am |
Break
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| 11:20 am |
Seeds of (Climate) Change: Private Adaptation and Subsidized Insurance in West Bengal |
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45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
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| 12:05 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:05 pm |
Governing Environmental Markets: Evidence from Irrigation in Water Markets
Discussant:
Billy A. Ferguson, Stanford University |
| 2:10 pm |
Identifying Climate-Vulnerable Populations Using Satellite Imagery
Discussant:
Anna Papp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 3:05 pm |
Break
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| 3:30 pm |
Two Centuries of U.S. Innovation: Firms' Internal Networks and Resilience to Disasters |
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45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
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| 4:05 pm |
Processing Power: The Effect of Data Centers On Wholesale Electricity Markets
Discussant:
Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER |
| 5:00 pm |
Adjourn
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| 5:30 pm |
Reception and Group Dinner - Location TBA
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| Friday, May 1 | |
| 8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast
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| 9:00 am |
Range Anxiety
Discussant:
Jing Li, Tufts University |
| 9:55 am |
High Returns, Low Adoption: Air Purifiers in Bangladeshi Firms
Discussant:
Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER |
| 10:50 am |
Break
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| 11:05 am |
The (Mis)Allocation Channel of Climate Change: Evidence from Global Firm-level Microdata |
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45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
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| 11:50 am |
Unintended Environment and Health Consequences of Distortionary Fertilizer Subsidies |
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45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
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| 12:35 pm |
Global Policy Spillovers: How Environmental Policies Propagate through Product Attributes
Discussant:
Shanjun Li, Stanford University and NBER |
| 1:30 pm |
Adjourn
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