SI 2021 Environmental & Energy Economics

Matthew Kotchen and Mar Reguant, Organizers

July 26-27, 2021

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 26
10:20 am
Welcome and opening
10:30 am

The Cost of Species Protection: The Land Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act
Discussant: Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Arizona State University and NBER
11:15 am

Economic Impacts of the US National Park System
Discussant: Katherine R.H. Wagner, University of British Columbia
12:00 pm
Break
1:00 pm

Incentivizing Negative Emissions Through Carbon Shares
Discussant: Stephie Fried, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
1:45 pm

Overlapping Climate Policies
Discussant: Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Incomplete Environmental Regulation and Spatial Equilibrium in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
Discussant: Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER
3:45 pm

Equilibrium Particulate Exposure
Discussant: Will Rafey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
4:30 pm
Breakout Rooms
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 27
10:30 am

Economic impacts of tipping points in the climate system
Discussant: William D. Nordhaus, Yale University and NBER
11:15 am

The Rising Cost of Climate Change: Evidence from the Bond Market
Discussant: James H. Stock, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm
Break
12:15 pm
Lunch with informal discussion based 10 min initial presentations of :

Smart Tech, Dumb Humans: The Perils of Scaling Household Technologies

Smart Thermostats, Automation, and Time-Varying Pricing
1:15 pm
Break
Egg Timers
1:30 pm

Can Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from US Agriculture
1:35 pm

Adaptation and Mitigation of Pollution: Evidence from Air Quality Warnings
1:40 pm

Pollution and Acquisition: Emissions and Distributional Effects of Mergers
1:45 pm

Adaptation to Natural Disasters by Better Information: Evidence from the Home Seller Disclosure Requirement
1:50 pm

Climate Change, The Food Problem, and the Challenge of Adaptation through Sectoral Reallocation
1:55 pm

To Beef or Not To Beef: Trade, Meat, and the Environment
2:00 pm

Coordination and Commitment in International Climate Action: Evidence from Palm Oil
2:05 pm

Eco-Certification: Warm Glow or Cold Prickle? (slides)
2:10 pm

Cool Cities: The Value of Urban Trees
2:15 pm

Heterogeneous Effects of Waste Pricing Policies
2:20 pm

Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Risk
2:25 pm

Price Limits in a Tradeable Performance Standard
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

The Global Water Footprint of Distortionary Agricultural Policy
Discussant: Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:30 pm

Remotely Incorrect?
Discussant: Marshall Burke, Stanford University and NBER
4:15 pm
Breakout Rooms
4:45 pm
Adjourn