Environment and Energy Economics Program Meeting

Lint Barrage and Christopher R. Knittel, Organizers

March 24-25, 2022

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, March 24
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Ishan B. Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Climate Change, The Food Problem, and the Challenge of Adaptation through Sectoral Reallocation
Discussant: Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:00 am
Yuanning Liang, Peking University
Ivan J. Rudik, Cornell University and NBER
Eric Zou, University of Michigan and NBER

Economic Production and Biodiversity in the United States
Discussant: Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Jeffrey G. Shrader Jr, Columbia University
Laura A. Bakkensen, University of Arizona
Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona and NBER

Fatal Errors: The Mortality Value of Accurate Weather Forecasts
Discussant: Tamma Carleton, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch - Somerset Room
1:30 pm
Robyn Meeks, Duke University
Arstan Omuraliev, Kyrgyz State Technical University
Ruslan Isaev, Kyrgyz State Technical University
Zhenxuan Wang, North Carolina State University

Impacts of Electricity Quality Improvements: Experimental Evidence from Infrastructure Investments
Discussant: Susanna B. Berkouwer, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Thomas R. Covert, University of Chicago and NBER
Richard Sweeney, Boston College

Winds of Change: Estimating Learning by Doing without Cost or Input Data
Discussant: Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER
4:00 pm
Luis Gonzales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER
Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER

The Value of Infrastructure and Market Integration: Evidence from Renewable Expansion in Chile
Discussant: Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, March 25
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Nolan H. Miller, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
David Molitor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Eric Zou, University of Michigan and NBER

A Causal Concentration-Response Function for Air Pollution: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke
Discussant: Marshall Burke, Stanford University and NBER
10:00 am
Eyal G. Frank, University of Chicago and NBER
Anant Sudarshan, University of Warwick

The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India
Discussant: Charles A. Taylor, Harvard University
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Stefano Carattini, Georgia State University
Givi Melkadze, Georgia State University
Garth Heutel, Georgia State University and NBER

Climate Policy, Financial Frictions, and Transition Risk
Discussant: Stephie Fried, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
12:30 pm
Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER
Guojun He, University of Hong Kong
Mengdi Liu, University of International Business and Economics
Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER
Bing Zhang, Nanjing University

Citizen Participation and Government Accountability: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Pollution Appeals in China
Discussant: Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
1:30 pm
Adjourn