National Bureau of Economic Research
NBER: meeting April 13

Subject: meeting April 13
From: Don Fullerton (dfullert@eco.utexas.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 17:25:49 EST


The "ee" group of NBER researchers interested in environmental economics
are meeting Thursday morning, April 13 before the start of the PE meeting,
and we'd like to invite all members of the PE group to that morning
session as well. An initial schedule is below, and will be enclosed in
Jim Poterba's snail-mail invitation to the PE meeting. The purpose of
this email is just to alert those of you who are making travel plans. Don

     Don Fullerton dfullert@eco.utexas.edu
     Department of Economics phone: (512) 475-8519
     University of Texas fax: (512) 471-3510
     Austin, TX 78712-1173 home: (512) 329-9881
            http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Fullerton

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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Environmental Economics

Don Fullerton, Organizer

April 13, 2000

NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

                        PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 13:

 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

 8:30 AM NGEE-CHOON CHIA and ALBERT K. C. TSUI,
                National University of Singapore
                JOHN WHALLEY, University of Western Ontario and NBER
                Ownership and Use Taxes and Congestion Correcting
                Instruments

                Discussant: RICHARD ARNOTT, Boston College and NBER

 9:25 AM Break

 9:35 AM WAYNE GRAY, Clark University and NBER
                JON LEVY, Harvard University
                RON SHADBEGIAN, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
                Spatial Efficiency of Pollution Abatement Expenditures

                Discussant: ROBERT STAVINS, Harvard University

10:25 AM Break

10:35 AM A. LANS BOVENBERG, Tilburg University
                LAWRENCE H. GOULDER, Stanford University and NBER
                Neutralizing the Adverse Industry Impacts of CO2 Abatement
                Policies: What Does It Cost?

                Discussant: GILBERT METCALF, Tufts University and NBER

11:30 AM Adjourn

                                                                                                
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