NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Conference on Environmental Economics

Gilbert Metcalf, Organizer

May 17-18, 2002

The Hotel Viking

One Bellevue Avenue

Newport, Rhode Island

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MAY 17:

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM HILARY SIGMAN, Rutgers University and NBER

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

Discussant: SCOTT BARRETT, Johns Hopkins University

9:45 AM Break

10:15 AM DEBRA ISRAEL, Indiana State University

ARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER

Green Preferences: Testable Empirical Implications of the Growth and Environment Literature

Discussant: DAVID BLOOM, Harvard University and NBER

11:30 AM MATTHEW KAHN, Tufts University

Has Communism's Collapse Greened Eastern Europe's Polluted Cities?

Discussant: MAGDA LOVEI, The World Bank

12:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM MICHAEL GREENSTONE, University of Chicago and NBER

The Impact of the Clean Air Act Amendments on Sulfur Dioxide

Concentrations

Discussant: SPENCER BANZHAF, Resources for the Future

3:00 PM WAYNE GRAY, Clark University and NBER

RONALD SHADBEGIAN, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

'Optimal' Pollution Abatement - Whose Benefits Matter, and How Much?

Discussant: ELI BERMAN, Rice University and NBER

4:15 PM Adjourn

7:00 PM Dinner

SATURDAY, MAY 18:

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM SARAH WEST, Macalester College

ROBERTON WILLIAMS III, University of Texas and NBER

Estimates of a Consumer Demand System:

Implications for the Incidence of Environmental Taxes

Discussant: KENNETH SMALL, University of California, Irvine

9:45 AM Break

10:15 AM SPENCER BANZHAF, Resources for the Future

HOLGER SIEG, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

V. KERRY SMITH, North Carolina State University

RANDY WALSH, University of Colorado, Boulder

Ozone Improvement and Household Adjustments: Revisiting EPA's Prospective Analysis

Discussant: MAUREEN CROPPER, World Bank

11:30 AM JOHN LIST, University of Maryland

Substitutability, Experience, and the Value Disparity: Evidence from the Marketplace

Discussant: DON FULLERTON, University of Texas and NBER

12:45 PM Lunch and Adjourn

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