SI 2015 Environmental & Energy Economics
Organized by Don Fullerton, John A. List, and V. Kerry Smith
July 20-21, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 20

8:30 am

Default Eects, Follow-on Behavior and Welfare in Residential Electricity Pricing Programs

Peter Cappers, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Anna Spurlock, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Annika Todd, LBNL
Catherine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Patrick Baylis, University of British Columbia

9:30 am

Harberger Meets McKinsey: Measuring the Welfare Effects of Energy Efficiency Programs

Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER

1:30 pm

Panel Data Hedonics: Rosen's First Stage and Difference-in-Differences as "Sufficient Statistics"

H. Spencer Banzhaf, North Carolina State University and NBER

2:30 pm

Overcoming Salience Bias: How Real-Time Feedback Fosters Resource Conservation

Verena Tiefenbeck, ETH Zurich
Lorenz Goette, National University Singapore
Kathrin Degen, University of Lausanne
Vojkan Tasic, ETH Zurich
Elgar Fleisch, ETH Zurich
Rafael Lalive, University of Lausanne
Thorsten Staake, University of Bamberg

4:00 pm

Economic and Non-Economic Factors in Violence: Evidence from Organized Crime, Suicides and Climate in Mexico

Ceren Baysan, University of Toronto and NBER
Marshall Burke, Stanford University and NBER
Solomon M. Hsiang, Stanford University and NBER
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Felipe Gonzalez, Queen Mary University of London

Tuesday, July 21

8:30 am

Captains, Carbon, and Charity: A Field Experiment on the Impacts of Information, Targets, and Altruistic Incentives on Airline Pilot Behavior

Greer K. Gosnell, Rethink Possibilities
John List, University of Chicago and NBER
Robert Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER

8:30 am

Climate Change and Growth Risks

Ravi Bansal, Duke University and NBER
Dana Kiku, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Marcelo Ochoa, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

9:30 am

Preference Heterogeneity and Adoption of Environmental Health Improvements: Evidence from a Cookstove Promotion Experiment

Marc A. Jeuland, Duke University
Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University
Jie Sheng Tan Soo, Duke University

9:30 am

Climate Tipping and Economic Growth: Precautionary Capital and the Price of Carbon

Frederick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford
Aart de Zeeuw, Tilburg University

11:00 am

Wind Turbine Shutdowns and Upgrades in Denmark: Timing Decisions and the Impact of Government Policy

Jonathan A. Cook, Nexant, Inc.
C.-Y. Cynthia Lin, Cornell University

11:00 am

How Much Carbon Pricing is in Countries’ Own Interests? The Critical Role of Co-Benefits

Ian Parry, International Monetary Fund

1:00 pm

Drilling Like There's No Tomorrow: Bankruptcy, Insurance, and Environmental Risk

Judson P. Boomhower, University of California, San Diego and NBER

2:00 pm

Welfare Effects of Home Automation Technology with Dynamic Pricing

Bryan Bollinger, Dartmouth College
Wesley Hartmann, Stanford University

3:30 pm

Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in U.S. Electricity Generation

Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER