Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting NBER

NBER meeting on "Environmental and Energy Economics" 22-23rd January.  Good range of papers and high quality speakers (as you would expect).

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

Chris Costello and Catherine Wolfram, Organizers

Don Fullerton, Program Director

January 23-24, 2014

SIEPR

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014:

12:00 n	Lunch
	Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting Organizers: Chris Costello and Catherine Wolfram
1:00 pm	Severin Borenstein University of California at Berkeley and NBER
	James Bushnell, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
	Frank Wolak, Stanford University and NBER Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins, University of California at Berkeley
	Expecting the Unexpected: Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market Design
	Discussant: Billy Pizer, Duke University and NBER
2:00 pm	Samuel Bell, Cornell University
	B. Kelsey Jack, Tufts University and NBER
	Paulina Oliva, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER
	Chris Severen, University of California at Santa Barbara
	Elizabeth Walker, Harvard University
	Uncertainty, Self-selection and the Design of Subsidies: Evidence from Zambia
	Discussant:  Alexander Pfaff, Duke University
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Michael Greenstone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
	Stephen Ryan, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
	Michael Yankovich, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
	The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Military Retention Incentives and Occupation-Specific Mortality
	Discussant: Lucas W. Davis, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
4:30 pm	Solomon Hsiang, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Amir Jina, Columbia University
	The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth
	Discussant: Ben Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:15 pm	Group Dinner – Il Fornaio Restaurant, 520 Cowper Street (at the Garden Court Hotel), Palo Alto
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014:
	Morning: Joint IO/EEE Program Meeting
	Organizers: Severin Borenstein and Catherine Wolfram
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Hunt Allcott and Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University and NBER
	Stephen O’Connell, City University of New York
	How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Productivity? Evidence from India
	Discussant: Nick Ryan, Harvard University
10:00 am	Louis Kaplow, Harvard University and NBER
	Optimal Regulation with Exemptions and Corrective Taxes
	Discussant: Carl Shapiro, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Soren T. Anderson, Michigan State University and NBER
	Ryan Kellogg, University of Michigan and NBER
	Stephen W. Salant, University of Michigan
	Hotelling under Pressure
	Discussant: Stephen Holland, University of North Carolina and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
	Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting Resumes Organizers: Chris Costello and Catherine Wolfram
1:30 pm	Koichiro Ito, Boston University and NBER
	James Sallee, University of Chicago and NBER
	The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards
	Discussant: Meghan R. Busse, Northwestern University and NBER
2:30 pm	Joseph Shapiro, Yale University
	Trade, CO2 and the Environment
	Discussant: Carol McAusland, University of British Columbia
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Christopher Costello, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER
	Corbett Grainger, University of Wisconsin - Madison
	Property Rights, Regulatory Capture, and Exploitation of Natural Resources
	Discussant: Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn