Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference

Tatyana Deryugina, Matthew Kotchen, and James H. Stock, Organizers

May 20, 2021

Thursday, May 20
	Format: 25 minutes for presentations following by 20 minutes for Q&A
10:15 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:30 am	Rebecca J. Davis, Stephen F. Austin State University J. Scott Holladay, University of Tennessee Charles Sims, University of Tennessee Coal Fired Power Plant Retirements in the U.S.
11:15 am	Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley and NBER James B. Bushnell, University of California, Davis and NBER Implications of Residential Energy Pricing for Energy Substitution and Welfare
12:00 pm	Break
12:15 pm	Guest Speaker - Heather Boushey, Member, White House Council of Economic Advisors
1:15 pm	Break
1:30 pm	James Archsmith, University of Maryland Erich Muehlegger, University of California, Davis and NBER David S. Rapson, University of California, Davis Future paths of electric vehicle adoption in the United States: Predictable determinants, obstacles and opportunities
2:15 pm	Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER Long-Term Resource Adequacy in High Intermittent Renewables Wholesale Electricity Markets: Lessons from California
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University and NBER Designing Fuel Economy Standards in Light of Greater Electric Vehicle Offerings
4:00 pm	Barbara Annicchiarico, University of Rome Tor Vergata Stefano Carattini, Georgia State University Carolyn Fischer, The World Bank Garth Heutel, Georgia State University and NBER Business Cycles and Environmental Policy
4:45 pm	Adjourn