SI 2015 Environmental & Energy Economics

Don Fullerton, John A. List, and V. Kerry Smith, Organizers

July 20-21, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 20
8:30 am
8:30 am
Peter Cappers, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Anna Spurlock, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Annika Todd, LBNL
Catherine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Patrick Baylis, University of British Columbia

Default Eects, Follow-on Behavior and Welfare in Residential Electricity Pricing Programs
9:30 am
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER

Harberger Meets McKinsey: Measuring the Welfare Effects of Energy Efficiency Programs
1:30 pm
1:30 pm
H. Spencer Banzhaf, North Carolina State University and NBER

Panel Data Hedonics: Rosen's First Stage and Difference-in-Differences as "Sufficient Statistics"
2:30 pm
Verena Tiefenbeck, ETH Zurich
Lorenz Goette, National University Singapore
Kathrin Degen, University of Lausanne
Vojkan Tasic, ETH Zurich
Elgar Fleisch, ETH Zurich
Rafael Lalive, University of Lausanne
Thorsten Staake, University of Bamberg

Overcoming Salience Bias: How Real-Time Feedback Fosters Resource Conservation
4:00 pm
Ceren Baysan, University of Toronto
Marshall Burke, Stanford University and NBER
Solomon M. Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Felipe Gonzalez, Queen Mary University of London

Economic and Non-Economic Factors in Violence: Evidence from Organized Crime, Suicides and Climate in Mexico
Tuesday, July 21
8:30 am
8:30 am
Greer K. Gosnell, Rethink Possibilities
John List, University of Chicago and NBER
Robert Metcalfe, University of Southern California and NBER

Captains, Carbon, and Charity: A Field Experiment on the Impacts of Information, Targets, and Altruistic Incentives on Airline Pilot Behavior
8:30 am
Ravi Bansal, Duke University and NBER
Dana Kiku, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marcelo Ochoa, Federal Reserve Board

Climate Change and Growth Risks
9:30 am
9:30 am
9:30 am
Marc A. Jeuland, Duke University
Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University
Jie Sheng Tan Soo, Duke University

Preference Heterogeneity and Adoption of Environmental Health Improvements: Evidence from a Cookstove Promotion Experiment
9:30 am
Frederick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford
Aart de Zeeuw, Tilburg University

Climate Tipping and Economic Growth: Precautionary Capital and the Price of Carbon
11:00 am
11:00 am
11:00 am
Jonathan A. Cook, Nexant, Inc.
C.-Y. Cynthia Lin, Cornell University

Wind Turbine Shutdowns and Upgrades in Denmark: Timing Decisions and the Impact of Government Policy
11:00 am
Ian Parry, International Monetary Fund

How Much Carbon Pricing is in Countries’ Own Interests? The Critical Role of Co-Benefits
1:00 pm
1:00 pm
Judson P. Boomhower, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Drilling Like There's No Tomorrow: Bankruptcy, Insurance, and Environmental Risk
2:00 pm
2:00 pm
Bryan Bollinger, New York University
Wesley Hartmann, Stanford University

Welfare Effects of Home Automation Technology with Dynamic Pricing
3:30 pm
3:30 pm
Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER

Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in U.S. Electricity Generation