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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy

Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram: Organizers

May 13-14, 2010

National Press Club

529 14^th Street, NW

Washington, DC

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MAY 13
8:00 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Welcoming Remarks
8:45 am	Panel 1: Climate Policy in the Face of Existing Regulations
	LAWRENCE GOULDER, Stanford University and NBER
	ROBERT STAVINS, Harvard University and NBER
	Interactions of State and Federal Climate Change Policies
	Discussant: ARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER
	FRANK WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER
	Regulating a Global Carbon Market
	Discussant: CHRISTOPHER KNITTEL, UC Davis and NBER
	MATTHEW KAHN, UC Los Angeles and NBER
	Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
	Discussant: FRANK WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER
10:15 am	Break
10:45 am	Panel 2: Consumer Choices and Climate Policy
	LUCAS DAVIS, UC Berkeley and NBER
	Evaluating the Slow Adoption of Energy Efficient Investments: Are Renters Less Likely to Have Energy Efficient Appliances?
	Discussant: OLIVIER DESCHENES, UC Santa Barbara and NBER
	MATTHEW KOTCHEN, Yale University and NBER
	Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives: An Evaluation of the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program
	Discussant: LUCAS DAVIS, UC Berkeley and NBER
	CHRISTOPHER R. KNITTEL, UC Davis and NBER
	RYAN SANDLER, UC Davis
	Carbon Prices and Automobile Greenhouse Gas Emissions:
	The Extensive and Intensive Margins
	Discussant: MATTHEW KOTCHEN, UC Santa Barbara and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Panel 3: Public Finance Models of Climate Policy Issues
	KEVIN HASSETT, American Enterprise Institute
	APARNA MATHUR, American Enterprise Institute
	GILBERT E. METCALF, Tufts University and NBER
	Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package
	Discussant: HILARY SIGMAN, Rutgers and NBER
	ARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER
	Interactions Among Climate Policy Regulations
	Discussant: GILBERT METCALF, Tufts University and NBER
	HILARY SIGMAN, Rutgers University and NBER
	Monitoring and Enforcement of Climate Policy
	Discussant: SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, UC Berkeley and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Panel 4: Specific Climate Policy Design Issues
	MEREDITH FOWLIE, UC Berkeley and NBER
	Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program
	Discussant: LAWRENCE GOULDER, Stanford University and NBER
	ROBERTON WILLIAMS, University of Maryland and NBER
	Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy
	Discussant: STEPHEN HOLLAND, UNC Greensboro and NBER
	ERIN MANSUR, Yale University and NBER
	Upstream versus Downstream Implementation of Climate Policy
	Discussant: ROBERTON WILLIAMS, University of Maryland and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
FRIDAY, MAY 14
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45 am	Panel 5: Spillovers to Other Parts of the Economy
	STEPHEN HOLLAND, UNC Greensboro and NBER
	Spillovers from Climate Policy
	Discussant: CHARLES KOLSTAD, UC Santa Barbara and NBER
	OLIVIER DESCHENES, UC Santa Barbara and NBER
	Climate Policy and Labor Markets
	Discussant: MATTHEW KAHN, UC Los Angeles and NBER
	CHARLES KOLSTAD, UC Santa Barbara and NBER
	Price, Quantities and Innovation
	Discussant: V. KERRY SMITH, Arizona State University and NBER
10:15 am	Break
10:45 am	Panel 6: International Considerations
	KALA KRISHNA, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
	Limiting Emissions and Trade: Some Basic Ideas
	Discussant: MEREDITH FOWLIE, UC Berkeley and NBER
	JAMES BUSHNELL, Iowa State University and NBER
	The Economics of Carbon Offsets
	Discussant: KALA KRISHNA, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
	SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, UC Berkeley and NBER
	Markets for Anthropogenic Carbon Within the Larger Carbon Cycle
	Discussant: WOLFRAM SCHLENKER, Columbia University and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Panel 7: Interactions between Climate Policy and Other Parts of the Ecosystem
	V. KERRY SMITH, Arizona State University and NBER
	How Can Policy Encourage Climate Adaptation?
	Discussant: ERIN MANSUR, Yale University and NBER
	WOLFRAM SCHLENKER, Columbia University and NBER
	Agriculture and Forestry
	Discussant: JAMES BUSHNELL, Iowa State University and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Wrap-up Panel
	JOSEPH ALDY, Executive Office of the President
	NATHANIEL KEOHANE, Environmental Defense Fund
	AL MCGARTLAND, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
3:30 pm	Adjourn