NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Pre-Conference on Environmental Economics

Gilbert Metcalf, Organizer

November 3, 2001

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2:

7:00 PM Group Dinner

Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM WAYNE GRAY, Clark University and NBER

RONALD SHADBEGIAN, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Optimal Pollution Abatement: Whose Benefits Matter and How Much?

9:30 AM MICHAEL GREENSTONE, University of Chicago and NBER

The Impact of the Clean Air Act Amendments on Sulfur Dioxide

Concentrations

10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM DEBRA ISRAEL, Eastern Illinois University

ARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER

Willingness to Pay for the Environment: Individual and Country Effects from the

World Values Survey

11:00 AM MATTHEW KAHN, Tufts University

The Environmental Consequences of Eastern Europe's Transition

11:30 AM Coffee Break

12:00 PM JOHN LIST, University of Maryland

The Effect of Market Experience on the WTA/WTP Disparity: Evidence from the Field

12:30 PM HILARY SIGMAN, Yale University and NBER

Trade and Pollution in Shared Resources: A Study of International Rivers

1:00 PM Lunch

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2:00 PM SPENCER BANZHAF, Resources for the Future

HOLGER SIEG, Duke University and NBER

V. KERRY SMITH, North Carolina State University

RANDY WALSH, Duke University

Ozone Improvement, Household Adjustment, and the Performance of Partial versus General Equilibrium Benefit Measures

2:30 PM SARAH WEST, Macalester College

ROBERTON WILLIAMS, University of Texas and NBER

Empirical Estimates of a Consumer Demand System:

Implications for the Incidence of Environmental Taxes

3:00 PM Adjourn

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