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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SI 2013 Environmental & Energy Economics
Maureen Cropper and Roberton Williams, Organizers
July 22-23, 2013
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles A/B Meeting Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
Monday, July 22:
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:20 am	Welcome
8:30 am	Randy Chugh, Department of Justice Maureen L. Cropper, University of Maryland and NBER The Welfare Effect of Fuel Conservation Policies in the Indian Car Market
	Discussant: Mark Jacobsen, University of California at San Diego and NBER
9:30 am	J. Scott Holladay, University of Tennessee Jacob LaRiviere, University of Tennessee What are the Bene ts to Flexible Regulatory Mechanisms? Evidence from the Electricity Market Discussant: Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Martin Weitzman, Harvard University and NBER A Voting Architecture for the Governance of Free-Driver Externalities, with Application to Geoengineering Discussant: Robert S. Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 n	Research Sketches
1:00 pm	Lunch
2:15 pm	Split Sessions:
Room A:	Catherine Hausman, University of California at Berkeley Corporate Incentives and Nuclear Safety Discussant: Nancy Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Room B:	Eduardo A. Souza-Rodrigues, University of Toronto Demand for Deforestation in the Amazon Discussant: Chris Timmins, Duke University and NBER
3:15 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Split Sessions:
Room A:	Takanori Ida, Kyoto University Koichiro Ito, Stanford University and NBER Makoto Tanaka Using Dynamic Electricity Pricing To Address Energy Crises Evidence from Randomized Field Experiments Discussant: Hunt Allcott, New York University and NBER
Room B:	Jennifer M. Alix-Garcia, University of Wisconsin, Madison Katharine R.E. Sims, Amherst College Patricia Ya񥺼/span>-Pagans, University of Wisconsin, Madison Only One Tree from Each Seed? Environmental Effectiveness and Poverty Alleviation in Programs of Payments for Ecosystem Services Discussant: Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University
4:45 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 23:
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Steve Cicala, Harvard University When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation Discussant: Meredith Fowlie, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
9:30 am	Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future Stephen Salant, University of Michigan Limits to Limiting Greenhouse Gases: Intertemporal Leakage, Spatial Leakage, and Negative Leakage Discussant: Don Fullerton, University of Illinois and NBER
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Antonio Bento, Cornell University Daniel Kaffine, Colorado School of Mines Kevin Roth, Cornell University Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins, University of California at Berkeley The Effects of Regulation in the Presence of Multiple Unpriced Externalities: Evidence from the Transportation Sector Discussant: Roger von Haefen, North Carolina State University and NBER
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Michael L. Anderson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Subways, Strikes, and Slowdowns: The Impacts of Public Transit on Traffic Congestion Discussant: Arthur van Benthem, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:00 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Juan Moreno Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology M. Scott Taylor, University of Calgary and NBER Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies Discussant: Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto
3:30 on	Lawrence H. Goulder, Stanford University and NBER Marc A. C. Hafstead, Stanford University Roberton C. Williams III, University of Maryland and NBER General Equilibrium Impacts of a Federal Clean Energy Standard Discussant: Stephen Holland, University of North Carolina, Greensboro and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn