Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference
Tatyana Deryugina, Matthew Kotchen, and James H. Stock, Organizers
May 19, 2022
National Press Club, Washington DC and on Zoom
Thursday, May 19 | ||
9:30 am | Registration | |
10:00 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
10:15 am |
Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Arizona State University Kyle C. Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Paige E. Weber, University of California, Berkeley Decomposing Trends in U.S. Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity |
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11:00 am |
Mark Curtis, Wake Forest University Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Green Energy Jobs in the US: What Are They and Where Are They? |
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11:45 am | Lunch | |
12:00 pm |
Lunch with Panel Discussion: The Social Cost of Carbon: Recent Economic and Policy Developments Richard Revesz, New York University Richard Newell, Resources for the Future |
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1:15 pm | Break | |
1:30 pm |
Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara Andrew Plantinga, University of California, Santa Barbara Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Resources for the Future Unequal Treatments: Federal Wildfire Fuels Projects and Socioeconomic Status of Nearby Communities |
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2:15 pm |
Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER Carbon Pricing, Clean Electricity Standards, and Clean Electricity Subsidies on the path to Zero Emissions |
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3:00 pm | Break | |
3:15 pm |
David Weisbach, University of Chicago Samuel S. Kortum, Yale University and NBER Michael Wang, Northwestern University Yujia Yao, International Monetary Fund Trade, Leakage, and the Design of a Carbon Tax |
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4:00 pm |
Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University and NBER The Distributional Impacts of a VMT-Gas Tax Swap |
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4:45 pm | Adjourn |