NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
MONDAY, JULY 30:
8:00 AMCoffee and Doughnuts
8:20 AMWelcome and Introductions
8:30 AMHELMUTH CREMER, University of Toulouse
FIROUZ GAHVARI, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
NORBERT LADOUX, University of Toulouse
Environmental Taxes with Heterogeneous Consumers:
An Application to Energy Consumption in France
Discussant: ROBERTON WILLIAMS, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
9:30 AMGEOFFREY HEAL, Columbia University and NBER
Bundling Public and Private Goods: Are Development and Conservation Necessarily in Conflict?
Discussant: TALBOT PAGE, Brown University
10:30 AMBreak
11:00 AMWALLACE OATES, University of Maryland
A Reconsideration of Environmental Federalism
Discussant: ROBERT INMAN, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
12:00 NLunch
1:00 PMRESEARCH SKETCHES
JAMES HAMMITT, Harvard University
2:00 PMBreak
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2:30 PMANTONIO BENTO, UC, Santa Barbara
MAUREEN CROPPER, MUSHFIQ MOBARAK and KATJA VINHA,
University of Maryland
The Impact of Urban Spatial Structure on Travel Demand
in the United States
Discussant: MATTHEW KAHN, Tufts University
3:30 PMKENNETH CHAY, UC, Berkeley
MICHAEL GREENSTONE, University of Chicago and NBER
Air Quality, Infant Mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970
Discussant: VERNON HENDERSON , Brown University and NBER
4:30 PMAdjourn
6:00 PMClambake
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA
TUESDAY, JULY 31:
8:00 AMCoffee and Doughnuts
8:30 AMIAN PARRY, Resources for the Future
KENNETH SMALL, UC, Irvine
Does Britain or America Have the Right Gasoline Tax?
Discussant: SARAH WEST, Macalester College
9:30 AMARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER
SCOTT NIEMANN, PA Consulting Group
Energy Use by Apartment Tenants When Landlords Pay for Utilities
Discussant: GILBERT METCALF, Tufts University and NBER
10:30 AMBreak
11:00 AMCHARLES MASON and JASON SHOGREN, University of Wyoming
CHAD SETTLE, University of Tulsa
JOHN LIST, University of Central Florida
Environmental Catastrophes and Non-Expected Utility Maximization:
An Experimental Evaluation
Discussant: V. KERRY SMITH, North Carolina State University
12:00 NLunch
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1:00 PMANNA ALBERINI, University of Maryland
MAUREEN CROPPER, University of Maryland
ALAN KRUPNICK, Resources for the Future
NATHALIE SIMON, US Environmental Protection Agency
The Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions in Canada
and the United States
Discussant: JAMES HAMMITT, Harvard University
2:00 PMBreak
2:30 PMDAVID KELLY, University of Miami
CHARLES KOLSTAD, UC, Santa Barbara
Price and Quantity Regulation in Dynamic General Equilibrium
Discussant: RICHARD NEWELL, Resources for the Future
3:30 PMNATHANIEL KEOHANE and BENJAMIN VAN ROY, Harvard University
RICHARD ZECKHAUSER, Harvard University and NBER
Controlling Stocks and Flows to Promote Environmental Quality, with
Applications to Physical and Human Capital
Discussant: CAROLYN FISCHER, Resources for the Future
4:30 PMAdjourn
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