SI 2018 Environmental & Energy Economics

Wolfram Schlenker and James H. Stock, Organizers

July 23-24, 2018


Hotel Marlowe

Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 23
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits
Discussant: Nolan H. Miller, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
10:00 am

Rapidly-Adjusting Perceptions of Temperature in a Changing Climate
Discussant: Robert K. Kaufmann, Boston University
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

Emissions Trading, Firm Behavior, and the Environment: Evidence from French Manufacturing Firms
Discussant: Stephen P. Holland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Impacts of a Carbon Tax across U.S. Household Income Groups: What Are the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Offs?
Discussant: Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University and NBER
2:30 pm

Costs of Energy Efficiency Mandates Can Reverse the Sign of Rebound
Discussant: Hilary Sigman, Rutgers University and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Egg-Timer Presentations

Harmattan Winds, Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment

International Environmental Agreements and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the Ozone Regime

Hysteresis And The Welfare Effect Of Corrective Policies: Theory And Evidence From An Energy Saving Program

The Effects of Subsidies and Mandates: A Dynamic Model of the Ethanol Industry

Heat and Learning

Hazed and Confused: Air Pollution, Dementia, and Financial Decision Making

Voluntary Climate Action and Credible Regulatory Threat: Evidence from the Carbon Disclosure Project

Market Power in Coal Shipping and Implications for U.S. Climate Policy

Liquid Constrained in California: Estimating the Potential Gains from Water Markets

Who Joined the Pigou Club? A Postmortem Analysis of Washington State's Carbon Tax Initiative I-732

The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation

Demanding Innovation: The Impact of Consumer Subsidies on Solar Panel Production Costs
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 24
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Designing Dynamic Subsidies to Spur Adoption of New Technologies
Discussant: David Popp, Syracuse University and NBER
9:30 am

Compatibility and Investment in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market
Discussant: Meghan R. Busse, Northwestern University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Estimating the Trade-off Between Efficiency and Equity from Energy Subsidies
Discussant: Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Muse Salon

Did Scrubbing the Government Clean Up the Air? Polluter Responses to China’s Anticorruption Campaign
Discussant: Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER
1:00 pm
Serrano Room

Emissions, Transmission, and the Environmental Value of Wind Energy: Evidence from Texas
Discussant: Jacob LaRiviere, Amazon, Inc.
2:00 pm
Muse Salon

Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters
Discussant: Matthew D. Gibson, Williams College
2:00 pm
Serrano Room

Costs of Inefficient Regulation: Evidence from the Bakken
Discussant: Catherine Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Muse Salon

Optimal Environmental Targeting in the Amazon Rainforest
Discussant: Francisco Costa, Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (FGV EPGE)
3:30 pm
Serrano Room

Dynamic Competition and Arbitrage in Electricity Markets: The Role of Financial Players (slides)
Discussant: Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn