NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

Workshop on Public Policy and the Environment

Don Fullerton and John List, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 28-29, 2005

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Thursday, July 28:
8:00 a.m.	Coffee and Pastries
8:20 a.m.	Welcome and Introductions
8:30 a.m.	KERRY SMITH, DANIEL PHANEUF, and RAYMOND PALMQUIST, North Carolina State University
	Choice Margins and Ecosystem Services: The Case of an Urban Watershed
	Discussant: TRUDY CAMERON, University of Oregon
9:30 a.m.	CHRISTOPHER TIMMINS, Duke University
	JENNIFER MURDOCK, University of Toronto
	A Revealed Preference Approach to the Measurement of Congestion in Travel Cost Models
	Discussant: JOSEPH HERRIGES, Iowa State University
10:30 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.	RICHARD ARNOTT, Boston College and NBER EREN INCI, Boston College
	An Integrated Model of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion
	Discussant: ROBERTON WILLIAMS III, University of Texas and NBER
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	RESEARCH SKETCHES
2:00 p.m.	WILLIAM WHEELER, Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Economics Research Priorities at the Environmental Protection Agency
2:20	Break
2:40 p.m.	IAN PARRY, CAROLYN FISCHER, and WINSTON HARRINGTON, Resources for the Future
	Do Market Failures Justify Tightening Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards?
	Discussant: SARAH WEST, Macalester College
3:40 p.m.	YANN BRAMOULLE, Laval University
	NICOLAS TREICH, University of Toulouse
	Can Uncertainty Alleviate the Commons Problem?
	Discussant: CHARLES KOLSTAD, UC, Santa Barbara
4:40 p.m.	Adjourn
6:00 p.m.	Group Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel
	WALLACE OATES, University of Maryland
	What is the EU Emissions Trading System?
Friday, July 29:
8:00 a.m.	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 a.m.	VIRGINIA MCCONNELL University of Maryland-Baltimore County MARGARET WALLS, Resources for the Future
	ELIZABETH KOPITS, Environmental Protection Agency
	Zoning, TDRs and the Density of Development
	Discussant: CATHERINE KLING, Iowa State University
9:30 a.m.	MARCY BURCHFIELD, Neptis Foundation HENRY OVERMAN, London School of Economics DIEGO PUGA and MATTHEW TURNER, University of Toronto
	Causes of Sprawl: A Portrait from Space
	Discussant: VERNON HENDERSON, Brown University and NBER
10:30 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.	SPENCER BANZHAF, Resources for the Future RANDALL WALSH, University of Colorado
	Do People Vote with Their Feet?: An Empirical Test of Environmental Gentrification
	Discussant: KENNETH McCONNELL, University of Maryland
12:00 n.	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	ERIN MANSUR and ROBERT MENDELSOHN, Yale University WENDY MORRISON, Texas A&M University
	A Discrete-Continuous Choice Model of Climate Change Impacts on Energy
	Discussant: ROGER H. VON HAEFEN, North Carolina State University
2:00 p.m.	LINDA BUI, Brandeis University
	Public Disclosure of Private Information as a Tool for Regulating Environmental Emissions: Firm-Level Responses by Petroleum Refineries to the Toxics Release Inventory
	Discussant: ARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER
3:00 p.m.	Break
3:15 p.m.	KIP VISCUSI, Harvard University and NBER JOEL HUBER, Duke University
	Hyperbolic Discounting of Environmental Quality
	Discussant: JOHN HOROWITZ, University of Maryland
4:15 p.m.	Adjourn
6/27/05