
	Tuesday, May 23
	Transporting Hydrocarbons Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation James B. Bushnell, Ryan Kellogg, and Erin T. Mansur, Organizers
7:30 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45 am	Welcome and Introductions
9:00 am	Crude by Rail, Option Value, and Railroad Market Power Thomas Covert, University of Chicago and NBER Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER
9:45 am	Regulation by Price Benchmarks: Protecting Small Shippers from the Exercise of Railroad Market Power Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER Wesley W. Wilson, University of Oregon
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of Petroleum Shipments on Agricultural Prices James B. Bushnell, University of California, Davis and NBER Jonathan E. Hughes, University of Colorado at Boulder Aaron Smith, University of California, Davis
11:30 am	Analyzing Transport Options for Crude Oil Charles Mason, University of Wyoming
12:15 pm	Lunch -- West Wing Room
	Panel Howard Gruenspecht, Energy Information Agency, U.S. Department of Energy Paul Joskow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Richard Newell, Resources for the Future
2:00 pm	Crude Oil Price Differentials and Pipeline Infrastructure Shaun McRae, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
2:45 pm	What Lies Beneath: Pipeline Awareness and Aversion Evan M. Herrnstadt, Congressional Budget Office Richard Sweeney, Boston College
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	The Social Cost from Moving Crude Oil by Pipelines and Railroads: Evidence from the Bakken Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Nicholas Muller, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
4:30 pm	Competition and Pass-through of Input Cost Shocks: Evidence from the U.S. Fracking Boom Erich Muehlegger, University of California, Davis and NBER Richard Sweeney, Boston College
5:15 pm	A Macroeconomic Analysis of Lifting the U.S. Crude Oil Export Ban Nida Cakir Melek, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Michael Plante, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Mine Kuban Yucel, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
6:00 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Group Dinner at the Almas Temple-West Wing Room
	Wednesday, May 24

	Economics of Energy Markets Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation Meredith Fowlie and Christopher R. Knittel, Organizers
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Evaluating a Discretionary Safety Valve:<Br> The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Waiving Fuel Content Regulations in Response to Supply Shocks Joseph E. Aldy, Harvard University and NBER
9:15 am	Did the Renewable Fuel Standard Shift Market Expectations of the Price of Ethanol? Christiane J.S. Baumeister, University of Notre Dame and NBER Reinhard Ellwanger, Bank of Canada Lutz Kilian, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	The Costs of Inefficient Regulation: Evidence from the Bakken Gabriel E. Lade, Macalester College Ivan J. Rudik, Cornell University and NBER
11:00 am	Heterogeneous Misperceptions of Energy Costs: Implications for Measurement and Policy Design Sebastien Houde, Grenoble Ecole de Management Erica Myers, University of Calgary and NBER
11:45 am	Lunch -- West Wing Room
1:00 pm	Household Discount Rates and Net Energy Metering Incentives for Rooftop Solar Adoption Steven E. Sexton Bryan Bollinger, New York University Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University and NBER
1:45 pm	The Incidence of Carbon Taxes in U.S. Manufacturing: Lessons from Energy Cost Pass-Through Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Reed Walker, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Optimal Network Tariffs for Renewable Electricity Generation Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER Thomas P. Tangerås, Research Institute of Industrial Economics
3:00 pm	Informing SPR Policy Through Oil Futures and Inventory Dynamics Richard G. Newell, Resources for the Future Brian C. Prest, Resources for the Future
4:15 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Joseph E. Aldy, Harvard University and NBER
Vipin Arora, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Paul Beaton, National Academy of Sciences
Aaron Bergman, Energy Information Administration
Bryan Bollinger, New York University
Ken Boyer, Michigan State University
James B. Bushnell, University of California, Davis and NBER
Meghan R. Busse, Northwestern University and NBER
Stephen Capanna, US Department of Energy
Prabhdeep Chawla, US Department of Transportation
Hugh Chen, Department of Energy
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Meg Coleman, US Energy Information Administration
Thomas R. Covert, University of Chicago and NBER
David Daniels, US Energy Information Administration
Reinhard Ellwanger, Bank of Canada
David Evans, Environmental Protection Agency
Mark Finley, British Petroleum
Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Oliver Fritz, Department of Defense
Sarah Garman, US Department of Energy
Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University and NBER
Deborah Gordon, Carnegie Endowment
Howard Gruensprecht, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen Hendrickson, Department of Energy
Micah Himmel, U.S. Department of Transportation
Cabell Hodge, U.S. Department of Energy
Nathaniel Horner
Robert Horner, Department of Energy
Sébastien Houde, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Jonathan E. Hughes, University of Colorado at Boulder
Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Paul Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER

Justin Kirkpatrick, Michigan State University
Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Gabriel E. Lade, Macalester College
Sarah Ladislaw, RMI
Jennifer Li, US Department of Energy
Eric Lightner, US Department of Energy
Erin T. Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER
Charles Mason, University of Wyoming
Shaun McRae, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Ian Mead, US Energy Information Administration
Evan Michelson, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Alam Mondal, International Food Policy Research Institute
Erich Muehlegger, University of California, Davis and NBER
Nicholas Z. Muller, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Erica Myers, University of Calgary and NBER
Richard G. Newell, Resources for the Future
Craig E. Philip, Vanderbilt University
Michael Plante, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Powell, Department of Energy
Brian C. Prest, Resources for the Future
Ivan Rudik, Cornell University and NBER
Steven E. Sexton
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Michael Shelby, Office of Transportation and Air Quality
Aaron Smith, University of California, Davis
Ben Steinberg, Venn
Richard L. Sweeney, Boston College
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Thomas White, Department of Energy
Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER
Catherine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Mine K. Yücel, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Nida Çakır Melek, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City