The Economics of Decarbonizing Industrial Production

Lint Barrage and Kenneth Gillingham, Organizers

December 8-9, 2023

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Parkview Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, December 8
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am
Introductions
9:40 am
Ralf Martin, London School of Economics
Mirabelle Muûls, Imperial College London
Thomas Stoerk, National Bank of Belgium & London School of Economics

The Effects of Carbon Pricing along the Production Network (slides)
10:40 am
Break
10:55 am
Jonathan Hawkins-Pierot, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Katherine R.H. Wagner, University of British Columbia

Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing (slides)
11:55 am
Lunch and Keynote Address #1, Kelly Visconti, U.S. Department of Energy
Parkview Room
1:20 pm
Paulina Jaramillo, Carnegie Mellon University
Valerie J. Karplus, Carnegie Mellon University
Petrus Christiaan Pistorius, Carnegie Mellon University
Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

The Costs and Distributional Impacts of Decarbonizing the Iron and Steel Industry in the United States (slides)
2:20 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Laure B. de Preux, Imperial College London
Yixuan Gu, University of Mannheim
Daven K. Henze, University of Colorado at Boulder
Ulrich J. Wagner, University of Mannheim

Public Health Co-benefits of Decarbonizing Industrial Production in Europe (slides)
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Keynote Address #2, Brian Storey, Toyota Research Institute
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Dinner, Charles Room A
Saturday, December 9
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
Eva Lyubich, U.S. Census Bureau
Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia

Measuring the Clean Energy Transition and its Distributional Impacts (slides)
9:30 am
Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER
Vladimir Smirnyagin, Yale University
Xi Wu, University of California, Berkeley

Macroeconomic Effects of the Universe of EPA Regulations (slides)
10:30 am
Break
10:50 am
Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future
Charles A. Holt, University of Virginia
Åsa Löfgren, University of Gothenburg
William Shobe, University of Virginia

Auctions to Procure Negative Emissions at Industrial Scale (slides)
11:50 am
Sarah C. Armitage, Boston University
Nathan H. Miller, Georgetown University and NBER
Matthew J. Osborne, University of Toronto
Gretchen Sileo, Temple University

Low-Carbon Investment Incentives and Climate Policy (slides)
12:50 pm
Adjourn and Lunch, Somerset Room