Environment and Energy Economics Program Meeting
Kelsey Jack and Ryan Kellogg, Organizers
March 14-15, 2019
The Royal Sonesta Hotel
| Thursday, March 14 | ||||
| 10:00 am |
David Keiser, University of Massachusetts Amherst Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Burning Waters to Crystal Springs? U.S. Water Pollution Regulation Over the Last Half Century
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| 11:00 am |
Stephen P. Holland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER Erin T. Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER Nicholas Muller, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Andrew J. Yates, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation
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| 12:00 n | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Pigou Creates Losers: On the Implausibility of Achieving Pareto Improvements from Pigouvian Taxation
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| 2:00 pm |
Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona and NBER Estimating the Consequences of Climate Change from Variation in Weather (discussant slides)
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
| 3:30 pm |
Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Louis Preonas, University of Maryland Out-of-merit Costs and Blackouts:Evidence from the Indian Electricity Market
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| 4:30 pm |
Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER Contract Enforcement and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from the Bidding and Renegotiation of Power Contracts in India
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| 5:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:15 pm |
Group Dinner Indo Restaurant, 3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto |
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| Friday, March 15 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 am |
Peter Christensen, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER Ignacio Sarmiento, University of Los Andes Christopher Timmins, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Housing Discrimination and the Pollution Exposure Gap in the United States
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| 9:30 am |
Cloe Garnache, University of Oslo Todd Guilfoos, University of Rhode Island The Effect of Salience on Risk Perceptions and Asset Prices
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Jonathan I. Dingel, University of Chicago and NBER Kyle C. Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Solomon M. Hsiang, Stanford University and NBER Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate
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| 12:00 n | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER Liguo Lin, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Eric Zou, University of Michigan and NBER The Value of Pollution Information: Evidence from China’s Air Quality Disclosure
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| 2:00 pm |
Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER Shuang Zhang, Imperial College London Setting the Price Right: Evidence from Heating Price Reform in China
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| 3:00 pm | Adjourn | |||