NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Environmental Economics Working Group Meeting

Don Fullerton, Organizer

April 12, 2003

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

FRIDAY, APRIL 11:

6:00 PM Group Dinner

Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

SATURDAY, APRIL 12:

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

8:55 AM Introductions and Update on the EE Working Group

9:00 AM DAVID BRADFORD, Princeton University and NBER

Improving on Kyoto:

Greenhouse Gas Control as the Purchase of a Global Public Good

Discussant: PETER WILCOXEN, Syracuse University

10:00 AM SCOTT BARRETT, Johns Hopkins University

Global Disease Eradication

Discussant: JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, Columbia University

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM M. SCOTT TAYLOR, University of Wisconsin and NBER

Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons

(Joint with BRIAN COPELAND)

Discussant: ISTVÁN KÓNYA, Boston College

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM MUSTAFA BABIKER and JOHN REILLY, MIT

GILBERT METCALF, Tufts University and NBER

Tax Distortions and Global Climate Policy

Discussant: LAWRENCE GOULDER, Stanford University and NBER

2:30 PM W. MICHAEL HANEMANN, UC, Berkeley

SHEILA OLMSTEAD, Yale University

ROBERT STAVINS, Harvard University

Does Price Structure Matter?

Household Water Demand Under Increasing-Block and Uniform Prices

Discussant: LI GAN, University of Texas at Austin

3:30 PM Break

4:00 PM JOHN LIST, University of Maryland

MICHAEL MARGOLIS, Resources for the Future

DANIEL OSGOOD, University of Arizona

Measuring the Preemption of Regulatory Takings in the U.S. Endangered Species Act:

Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Discussant: STEVE POLASKY, University of Minnesota

5:00 PM Adjourn

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