SI 2021 Environmental & Energy Economics
Organized by Matthew Kotchen and Mar Reguant
July 26-27, 2021
on Zoom.us
Monday, July 26
10:20 am
Welcome and opening
10:30 am

The Cost of Species Protection: The Land Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act

Eyal G. Frank, University of Chicago and NBER
Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
David McLaughlin, Environmental Defense Fund
Beia Spiller, Resources for the Future
David L. Sunding, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Arizona State University and NBER
11:15 am

Economic Impacts of the US National Park System

Andrea Szabo, University of Houston
Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston

Discussant:
Katherine R.H. Wagner, University of British Columbia
12:00 pm
Break
1:00 pm

Incentivizing Negative Emissions Through Carbon Shares

Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona and NBER

Discussant:
Stephie Fried, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
1:45 pm

Overlapping Climate Policies

Grischa Perino, University of Hamburg
Robert A. Ritz, University of Cambridge
Arthur A. van Benthem, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Discussant:
Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Incomplete Environmental Regulation and Spatial Equilibrium in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

Nicholas Vreugdenhil, Arizona State University

Discussant:
Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER
3:45 pm

Equilibrium Particulate Exposure

Lorenzo Aldeco, Bank of Mexico
Lint Barrage, ETH Zurich
Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER

Discussant:
Will Rafey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
4:30 pm
Breakout Rooms
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 27
10:30 am

Economic impacts of tipping points in the climate system

Simon Dietz, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
James Rising, University of Delaware
Thomas Stoerk, National Bank of Belgium & London School of Economics
Gernot Wagner, Columbia University

Discussant:
William D. Nordhaus, Yale University and NBER
11:15 am

The Rising Cost of Climate Change: Evidence from the Bond Market

Michael D. Bauer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Glenn Rudebusch, The Brookings Institution

Discussant:
James H. Stock, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm
Break
12:15 pm
Lunch with informal discussion based 10 min initial presentations of :

Smart Tech, Dumb Humans: The Perils of Scaling Household Technologies

Alec Brandon, Johns Hopkins University
Christopher M. Clapp, University of Chicago
John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER
Robert D. Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER
Michael Price, The University of Alabama and NBER

Smart Thermostats, Automation, and Time-Varying Pricing

Josh Blonz, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Karen Palmer, Resources for the Future
Casey J. Wichman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Derek C. Wietelman, University of Maryland, College Park
1:15 pm
Break
Egg Timers
1:30 pm

Can Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from US Agriculture

Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER
1:35 pm

Adaptation and Mitigation of Pollution: Evidence from Air Quality Warnings

Sandra Aguilar, Universidad de los Andes
1:40 pm

Pollution and Acquisition: Emissions and Distributional Effects of Mergers

Irene Jacqz, Iowa State University
1:45 pm

Adaptation to Natural Disasters by Better Information: Evidence from the Home Seller Disclosure Requirement

Seunghoon Lee, University of Missouri
1:50 pm

Climate Change, The Food Problem, and the Challenge of Adaptation through Sectoral Reallocation

Ishan B. Nath, Harvard Kennedy School
1:55 pm

To Beef or Not To Beef: Trade, Meat, and the Environment

Dora Zs. Simon, University of Stavanger
2:00 pm

Coordination and Commitment in International Climate Action: Evidence from Palm Oil

Allan J. Hsiao, Stanford University and NBER
2:05 pm

Eco-Certification: Warm Glow or Cold Prickle? (slides)

Klaas van 't Veld, University of Wyoming
2:10 pm

Cool Cities: The Value of Urban Trees

Lu Han, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER
Christopher Timmins, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol
2:15 pm

Heterogeneous Effects of Waste Pricing Policies

Marica Valente Ms, University of Innsbruck
2:20 pm

Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Risk

Asaf Bernstein, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Stephen B. Billings, University of Colorado Boulder
Matthew Gustafson, Pennsylvania State University
Ryan Lewis, University of Colorado Boulder
2:25 pm

Price Limits in a Tradeable Performance Standard

Banban Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
William A. Pizer, Resources for the Future
Clayton Munnings, University of California, Berkeley
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

The Global Water Footprint of Distortionary Agricultural Policy

Tamma A. Carleton, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:30 pm

Remotely Incorrect?

Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Oregon State University
Daniel Millimet, Southern Methodist University

Discussant:
Marshall Burke, Stanford University and NBER
4:15 pm
Breakout Rooms
4:45 pm
Adjourn