NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Workshop

 

Organizers: John List and Charles Kolstad

 

July 29 and 30, 2010

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles Suite AB

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28:

 

 

6:30 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 29:

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

8:30 am

Corbett Grainger, UC, Santa Barbara

 

Christopher Costello, UC, Santa Barbara and NBER

 

The Value of Secure Property Rights: Evidence from Global Fisheries

 

 

 

Discussant:  Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Lee J. Alston, University of Colorado and NBER

 

Bernardo Mueller, Universidade de Brasília

 

Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil

 

 

 

Discussant:  Sebastian Galiani, Washington University at St. Louis

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Hunt Allcott, MIT

 

Nathan Wozny, Princeton University

 

Gasoline Prices, Fuel Economy, and the Energy Paradox

 

 

 

Discussant:  Ryan Kellogg, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Research Sketches

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Martin Weitzman, Harvard University and NBER

 

GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State University

 

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

 

3:45 pm

Charles Mason, University of Wyoming

 

Andrew Plantinga, Oregon State University

 

The Additionality Problem with Offsets

 

 

 

Discussant:  Steven Polasky, University of Minnesota

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel (Riverfront Room)

 

Dinner Speaker – Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER

 

Environment and Technology

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 30:

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

8:30 am

Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Seyed Ali Madanizadeh, University of Chicago

 

Steven L. Puller, Texas A&M University and NBER

 

Power to Choose: An Analysis of Consumer Behavior in the Texas Retail Electricity Market

 

 

 

Discussant:  Catherine Wolfram, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Meghan Busse and Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Christopher R. Knittel, UC, Davis and NBER

 

Pain at the Pump: The Effect of Gasoline Prices on New and Used Automobile Markets

 

 

 

Discussant:  Max Auffhammer, UC, Berkeley

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Koichiro Ito, UC, Berkeley

 

How Do Consumers Respond to Nonlinear Pricing? Evidence from Household Electricity Demand

 

 

 

Discussant:  Paulina Oliva, UC, Santa Barbara

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

BREAK OUT SESSIONS – Rooms Charles A and Charles B

 

 

Charles A

 

1:00 pm

James S. Holladay, New York University

 

Environmental Regulation and Plant Location Decisions

 

 

 

Discussant:  Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

David Herberich, University of Chicago

 

John List, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Michael Price, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

How Many Economists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb? A Natural Field Experiment on Technology Adoption

 

 

 

Discussant:  Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Emanuele Massetti, FEEM

 

Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University

 

Estimating Ricardian Models With Panel Data

 

 

 

Discussant:  Michael Greenstone, MIT and NBER

 

 

Charles B

 

1:00 pm

Meredith Fowlie, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Allocating emissions permits in cap-and-trade programs: Theory and evidence

 

 

 

Discussant:  Matti Liski, Helsinki School of Economics

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Ralf Martin, London School of Economics

 

Ulrich Wagner, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

 

The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Business: Evidence from Microdata

 

 

 

Discussant:  Lucas Davis, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Kathy Baylis, University of Illinois

 

Yazhen Gong and Shun Wang, University of British Columbia

 

Bridging vs. Bonding Social Capital and the Governance of Common Pool Resources

 

 

 

Discussant:  Daniel Millimet, Southern Methodist University

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn