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SI 2026 Environment and Energy Economics
Organized by Lint Barrage, Ryan Kellogg, Anna Russo, and Wolfram Schlenker
July 27-28, 2026
Serrano Ballroom, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
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Monday, July 27
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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9:00 am
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Welcome and Introductions
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9:15 am
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Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Expansion of the Global Agricultural Frontier
Allan Hsiao, Stanford University and NBER
Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER
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10:10 am
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Clearing the Air on the Benefits and Costs of Road Infrastructure
Clare A. Balboni, London School of Economics
Aaron Berman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Johannes Boehm, Geneva Graduate Institute
Lorenzo Marzano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Mazhar Waseem, University of Manchester
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11:05 am
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Break
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Egg Timer Sessions (8 minutes each):
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11:35 am
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Clean Cars, Dirty Margins: Portfolio Responses to Electric Vehicle Subsidies
Sebastian Tebbe, University of Melbourne
David S. Rapson, University of California, Davis
Teevrat Garg, University of California, San Diego
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11:43 am
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Financing Investment in Electricity
Olivier Darmouni, HEC Paris
Clemens Lehner, Columbia University
Parinitha R. Sastry, University of Pennsylvania
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11:51 am
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Nuclear Operations with a High Penetration of Renewables: The Case of France
Nicolas Astier, Paris School of Economics
Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER
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11:59 am
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Environmental Regulation with Irreversible Investments: Evidence from High Plains Aquifer Depletion
Nathaniel Hickok, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aaron Berman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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12:07 pm
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The Labor Market Effects of Carbon Pricing
Andreas Fuster, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Gazi Kabas, Tilburg University
Vincenzo Pezone, Luiss University
Kasper Roszbach, Norges Bank
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12:15 pm
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Levees and Levies: Local Financing of Climate Infrastructure Maintenance and Housing Market Dynamics
Yichun Fan, Duke University
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12:23 pm
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Cows and Trees
Paul Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eduardo A. Souza-Rodrigues, University of Toronto
Ted C. Rosenbaum, Federal Trade Commission
Skand Goel, New York University
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12:30 pm
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Lunch
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1:30 pm
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Carbon Taxes, Carbon Border Adjustments and the World Trade Organization
Billy A. Ferguson, Stanford University
Robert W. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER
Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER
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2:25 pm
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Green Industrial Policy in a Globalized Economy
Sungwan Hong, University of Pittsburgh
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3:20 pm
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Break
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3:50 pm
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The Competitive Effects of Vertical Integration Under Incomplete Hedging
Ali Hortaçsu, The University of Chicago and NBER
Keisuke Ito, The University of Chicago
Eric Richert, The University of Chicago and NBER
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4:45 pm
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Adjourn
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Tuesday, July 28
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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9:00 am
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Direct Damage, Indirect Costs, and the Design of Disaster Relief
Amen Jalal, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Pol Simpson, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
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9:55 am
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Pricing Climate Risk: Hurricane Models and Home Insurance Over the Last Two Decades
Judson Boomhower, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Patricia H. Born, Florida State University
Benjamin L. Collier, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Tobias Huber, University of Georgia
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10:50 am
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Break
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11:20 am
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Crops, Insects, and Diseases: Ecological Consequences of Straw-Burning Ban
Wen Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Congyuan Cui, Peking University
Gordon Liu, Peking University
Zhengwen Liu, Peking University
Yun Qiu, Jinan University
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12:15 pm
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Lunch
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1:15 pm
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Paving the Swamp: Consequences of Land Use Regulation Under the Clean Water Act
Hannah Druckenmiller, California Institute of Technology and NBER
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Charles A. Taylor, Harvard University and NBER
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2:10 pm
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Green AI in Industry: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Water Treatment Sector
Philippe Aghion, Collège de France
Lint Barrage, ETH Zurich
Céline Antonin, Sciences Po
Benjamin Lengereau, INSEAD
Mathias Abitbol, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)
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3:05 pm
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Break
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3:35 pm
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Trading Trash on Tricycles
Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Yoshiki Wiskamp, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
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4:30 pm
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Adjourn
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