Environment and Energy Economics Program Meeting

Kelsey Jack and Ryan Kellogg, Organizers

March 14-15, 2019

The Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, March 14
10:00 am

Burning Waters to Crystal Springs? U.S. Water Pollution Regulation Over the Last Half Century
Discussant: Sheila Olmstead, Cornell University
11:00 am

Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation
Discussant: Arik Levinson, Georgetown University and NBER
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm

Pigou Creates Losers: On the Implausibility of Achieving Pareto Improvements from Pigouvian Taxation (slides)
Discussant: Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University and NBER
2:00 pm

Estimating the Consequences of Climate Change from Variation in Weather
(discussant slides)
Discussant: Robert S. Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Out-of-merit Costs and Blackouts:Evidence from the Indian Electricity Market
Discussant: Shaun McRae, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
4:30 pm

Contract Enforcement and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from the Bidding and Renegotiation of Power Contracts in India
Discussant: Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
6:15 pm
Group Dinner
Indo Restaurant, 3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
Friday, March 15
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Housing Discrimination and the Pollution Exposure Gap in the United States
Discussant: Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
9:30 am

The Effect of Salience on Risk Perceptions and Asset Prices
Discussant: Lint Barrage, ETH Zurich
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate
Discussant: Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm

The Value of Pollution Information: Evidence from China’s Air Quality Disclosure
Discussant: Joshua S. Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego and NBER
2:00 pm

Setting the Price Right: Evidence from Heating Price Reform in China
Discussant: Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
3:00 pm
Adjourn