SI 2022 Environmental & Energy Economics

Meredith Fowlie and Koichiro Ito, Organizers

July 25-26, 2022

Hotel Marlowe

Serrano Ballroom, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER
Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER
Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER
Anant Sudarshan, University of Chicago

The Benefits and Costs of Emissions Trading: Experimental Evidence from a New Market for Industrial Particulate Emissions
Discussant: Ulrich J. Wagner, University of Mannheim
10:00 am
Jingbo Cui, Duke Kunshan University
Chunhua Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Zhenxuan Wang, North Carolina State University
Junjie Zhang, Duke Kunshan University
Yang Zheng, London School of Economics and Political Sciences

Carbon Leakage within Firm Ownership Networks: Evidence from China's Regional Carbon Market Pilots
Discussant: Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:15 am
Stephen P. Holland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER
Erin T. Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER
Andrew J. Yates, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Decarbonization and Electrification in the Long Run (slides)
Discussant: James B. Bushnell, University of California, Davis and NBER
12:15 pm
Lunch - Serrano A/ Alexis Gallery
1:15 pm
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Hyuk-Soo Kwon, University of Chicago
Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER

Attribute-Based Subsidies and Market Power: An Application to Electric Vehicles
Discussant: Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER
2:15 pm
Break
Parallel Sessions
2:30 pm
Muse Salon
Justin Gallagher, Montana State University
Daniel Hartley, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Natural Disasters, Local Bank Market Share, and Economic Recovery Parallel Track 1 - Muse Salon
Discussant: Philip Strahan, Boston College and NBER
2:30 pm
Serrano
Paul Ferraro, Johns Hopkins University
Kent D. Messer, University of Delaware
Pallavi Shukla, Johns Hopkins University
Collin Weigel, Johns Hopkins University

Behavioral Biases among Producers: Experimental Evidence of Anchoring in Procurement Auctions Parallel Track 2 - Serrano Ballroom
Discussant: Kelsey Jack, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:30 pm
Muse Salon
Thomas Braun, Columbia University
Wolfram Schlenker, Harvard University and NBER

Cooling Externality of Large-Scale Irrigation Parallel Track 1 - Muse Salon
Discussant: Jonathan Proctor, Harvard University
3:30 pm
Serrano
Peter Christensen, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Paul Francisco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Erica Myers, University of Calgary and NBER

Can Incentive-Based Pay Increase the Marginal Value of Public Spending on Energy Efficiency? Experimental Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program Parallel Track 2 - Serrano Ballroom
Discussant: Meghan R. Busse, Northwestern University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 26
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Kay Jowers, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Lala Ma, University of Kentucky
Christopher Timmins, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER

Racial Dynamics of Federal Property Buyouts in Flood-Prone Areas
Discussant: Catherine Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER
9:30 am
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Caitlin S. Gorback, University of Texas at Austin
James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

How Regressive are Mobility-Related User Fees and Gas Taxes? (slides)
Discussant: Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Eggtimers
Nicolas Astier, Paris School of Economics
Ram Rajagopalan, Stanford University
Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER

Can Distributed Intermittent Renewable Generation Reduce Future Grid Investments? Evidence from France
Judson Boomhower, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jacob Gellman, University of Alaska Anchorage
Andrew Plantinga, University of California, Santa Barbara

Property Insurance Markets and the Distribution of Climate Change Risk
Jevan M. Cherniwchan, McMaster University
Nouri Najjar, Western University

Free Trade and the Formation of Environmental Policy: Evidence from US Legislative Votes
Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and NBER
Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas
Quoc H. Nguyen, DePaul University

The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting
Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER
Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER
Wendan Zhang, Renmin University of China

Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards (slides)
Andrew Hultgren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Strategic Innovation and Lobbying in Response to Regulatory Uncertainty
Raahil Madhok, University of Minnesota

The Development-Biodiversity Tradeoff in India's Forests
Philip Mulder, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Mismeasuring Risk: The Welfare Effects of Flood Risk Information
Ashwin Rode, University of Chicago
Tamma A. Carleton, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER
Solomon M. Hsiang, Stanford University and NBER
Andrew Hultgren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Amir Jina, University of Chicago and NBER
Robert E. Kopp, Rutgers University
Kelly McCusker, Rhodium Group
Ishan B. Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
James Rising, University of Delaware

Labor Disutility in a Warmer World: The Impact of Climate Change on the Global Workforce
12:00 pm
Lunch - Serrano A/ Alexis Gallery
1:00 pm
Eyal G. Frank, University of Chicago and NBER
Kimberly Oremus, University of Delaware

Regulating Biological Resources: Lessons from Marine Fisheries in the United States
Discussant: Christopher Costello, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
Brennan Williams, University of Virginia

Air Pollution and Economic Opportunity in the United States
Discussant: Reed Walker, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:30 pm
Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Environmental Catastrophe and the Direction of Invention: Evidence from the American Dust Bowl
Discussant: Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn