NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram, Organizers

 

Don Fullerton, Program Director

 

February 8, 2008

 

Stanford University

SIEPR - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

579 Serra Mall at Galvez St.

Stanford, CA

 

Preliminary Program

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2008:

 8:00 am

Breakfast

 

 

 8:30 am

SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

The Market Value and Cost of Solar Photovoltaic Electricity Production 

 

 

 

Discussant: WILLIAM PIZER, Resources for the Future

 

 

 9:40 am

Break

 

 

 9:55 am

STEPHEN HOLLAND, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

CHRISTOPHER KNITTEL, UC, Davis and NBER

 

JONATHAN HUGHES, UC, Davis

 

Greenhouse Gas Reductions under Low Carbon Fuel Standards?

 

 

 

Discussant: KENNETH SMALL, UC, Irvine

 

 

 11:05 am

Break

 

 

 11:20 am

MATTHEW KOTCHEN, UC, Santa Barbara and NBER

 

LAURA GRANT, UC, Santa Barbara

 

Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana

 

 

 

Discussant: MATTHEW KAHN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

 12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

Joint IO/Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

Organizers: Erin Mansur and Catherine Wolfram

 

 

 1:30 pm

HAITAO YIN, University of Michigan

 

HOWARD KUNREUTHER and MATTHEW WHITE,

 

University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort: Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?

 

 

 

Discussant: LUCAS DAVIS, University of Michigan

 

 

 2:40 pm

Break

 

 

 2:55 pm

JEAN-FRANÇOIS HOUDE, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

Spatial Differentiation in Retail Markets for Gasoline 

 

 

 

Discussant: JUSTINE HASTINGS, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 4:05 am

Break

 

 

 4:20 pm

MEREDITH FOWLIE, University of Michigan

 

Incomplete Environmental Regulation, Imperfect Competition, and Emissions Leakage

 

 

 

Discussant: STEPHEN RYAN, MIT and NBER

 

 

 5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Group Dinner

 

Straits Restaurant, 3295 El Camino, Palo Alto, CA 650/494-7168

 

 

 

 

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