NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Environmental Economics Working Group Meeting

Don Fullerton, Organizer

April 6, 2002

NBER's Offices,

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, APRIL 5:

6:00 PM Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

SATURDAY, APRIL 6:

8:15 AM Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to 1050 Massachusetts Ave.

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM ROBERT MENDELSOHN, Yale University

Optimal Forest Carbon Sequestration

(Joint with BRENT SOHNGEN)

Discussant: ROBERT STAVINS, Harvard University

10:00 AM JEFFREY A. FRANKEL, Harvard University and NBER

Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality

Discussant: M. SCOTT TAYLOR, University of Wisconsin and NBER

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM SARAH WEST, Macalester College

ROBERTON C. WILLIAMS III, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

Empirical Estimates for Environmental Policy Making in a Second-Best Setting

Discussant: FRANK WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM HILARY SIGMAN, Rutgers University and NBER

Federalism and Transboundary Spillovers: Water Quality in US Rivers

Discussant: HOLGER SIEG, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

2:30 PM KERRY SMITH, North Carolina State University

Transparency and Takings: Applying an RD Design to Measure Compensation

(Joint with CHRISTINE POULOS)

Discussant: MICHAEL GREENSTONE, University of Chicago and NBER

3:30 PM Break

4:00 PM GEOFFREY HEAL, Columbia University and NBER

National Income in Dynamic Economies

(Joint with BENGT KRISTROM)

Discussant: GEIR B. ASHEIM, Stanford University

5:00 PM Adjourn

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