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EVENTS: CURRENT

ENR-551y/Econ 2690hf
          Robert Stavins and Martin Weitzman
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Fall 2009, Wednesday, 4:10-5:30 p.m.
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Support from Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics
and the Department of Economics is Gratefully Acknowledged

September 16              Daron Acemoglu, MIT, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn, and David Hermous, Harvard                                  University.  "The Environment and Directed Technical Change."

September 23              Carolyn Kousky and Roger Cooke, Resources for the Future.  "Managing Catastrophic and                                  Dependent Risks: Fat Tails, Tail Dependence, and Micro-Correlations."

October 7                    Carol McAusland, University of British Columbia, and Daniel Millimet, Southern Methodist                                  University.  "Do National Borders Matter?  Intranational Trade, International Trade, and the                                   Environment."

October 21                  Melissa Dell, Benjamin Olken, MIT, Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University.  "Climate Shocks and                                  Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century."

October 28                  James Bushnell, Iowa State University, Howard Chong, University of California, Berkeley, and Erin                                  Mansur, Yale University.  "Firms' Costs (and Benefits) of Environmental Regulation: An Event Study of                                  the EU Emission Trading Scheme."

November 4                Grant Miller, Stanford Medical School, and Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University.  "Marketing Stoves to                                  Combat Indoor Air Pollution: A Randomized Intervention in Bangladesh."

November 18               Hunt Allcott, MIT, and Nathan Wozny, Princeton University.  "Gasoline Prices, Inattentive                                  Consumers, and the Energy Paradox."

December 2                 Robert M. Townsend, MIT, Kamilya Tazhibayeva, and John Felkner, University of Chicago.  "Impact                                  of Climate Change on Rice Production in Thailand."

For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.

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- Environmental Economics Research Lunch -

Students present their research in environmental and natural resource economics. The lunch is open to PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty from Boston area universities. For more information about the lunch schedule, please contact .

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