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EVENTS: PAST
Seminar in OPEN TO THE PUBLIC API-905y/Econ 2690hf Fall 2012, Wednesday, 4:10-5:30 p.m. Support from Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics
Note: Name of presenter is in Bold. 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. For PDF format of the schedule please click here
- Environmental Economics Research Lunch - Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. Fall 2012
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 Rich Sweeney.
Seminar in OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Spring 2012, Wednesday, 4:10-5:30 p.m. Support from Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics
For PDF format of the schedule please click here
- Environmental Economics Research Lunch - Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Seminar in Fall 2011, Wednesday, 4:10-5:30 p.m. Support from Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics August 31 STUDENT ORIENTATION September 7 Charles Kolstad, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Public Goods Institutions with Other- Regarding Preferences."September 14 Gautam Gowrisankaran, Stanley Reynolds, and Mario Samano, University of Arizona. "Intermittency and the Value of Renewable Energy." [Joint with Economics 3650hf - Industrial Organization Workshop] October 5 Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University. "How Do Consumers Respond to Gasoline Price Changes? Heterogeneity in Vehicle Choice and Driving Behavior." October 12 Antony Millner, University of California, Berkeley. "On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks." October 19 David Hémous, Harvard University. "The Environment, Trade, and Directed Technical Change." November 2 Wayne Gray, Clark University, Ronald Shadbegian, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chunbei Wang, and Merve Cebi, University of Massachusetts. "Do EPA Regulations Affect Labor Demand? Evidence from the Pulp and Paper Industry." November 9 Matthew Harding, Stanford University, and Alice Hsiaw, College of the Holy Cross. "Goal‑Setting and Energy Efficiency." November 16 Hunt Allcott, New York University, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Dmitry Daubinsky, Harvard University. "Externalizing the Internality."
- Environmental Economics Research Lunch - Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.
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 Rich Sweeney.
Report on HEEP’s Participation in WCERE-IV, Montreal, June 2010 In June, the Fourth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists was held in Montreal, Canada. The Harvard Environmental Economics Program was the co-host of a reception on June 30th. In addition to the reception, HEEP also hosted a panel discussion, “Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World.” Panelists were Bard Harstad (Northwestern University and an author of two discussion papers for the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements), Carlo Carraro (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, climate project author, member of HEEP’s International Advisory Board), Adele Morris (Brookings Institution and climate project author), and Robert Stavins. Both events were very well attended (over 1,000 economists at the reception) and gave HEEP the opportunity to distribute materials about the Program and Harvard’s broader research and degree programs. Robert Stavins also participated in three additional panels during the week. At the Congress, HEEP Faculty Fellow Professor Martin Weitzman and Resources for the Future (as an organization) jointly received the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) 20th Anniversary Prize, which FEEM “established…with the aim to reward a researcher or a group of researchers from anywhere in the world who has most significantly contributed to the development of the field of environmental and resource economics over the last 20 years.” Professor Weitzman was acknowledged for his pathbreaking theoretical contributions to the field of environmental economics. Resources for the Future, a Washington D.C.-based think-tank led by HEEP International Advisory Board member Phil Sharp, was chosen for its world-class research and policy outreach on environmental policy. The FEEM press release, with further details, can be found here. Yet another HEEP International Advisory Board member – Professor Richard Schmalensee of MIT – made one of the plenary presentations at the Congress—a superb talk on “Evaluating Policies to Increase the Use of Renewable Energy.”
Seminar in Fall 2010, Wednesday, 4:10-5:30 p.m. Support from Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics September 1 STUDENT ORIENTATION September 29 Martin Weitzman, Harvard University. "GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages." October 6 Emanuele Massetti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, and Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University. "Estimating Ricardian Models with Panel Data." October 20 Meghan Busse, Northwestern University, Christopher Knittel, University of California, Davis, and Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University. "Pain at the Pump: The Effect of Gasoline Prices on New and Used Automobile Markets." October 27 Kelsey Jack, MIT. "Allocation in Environmental Markets: A Field Experiment in Malawi." November 10 Mark Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego. "Fuel Economy, Car Class Mix, and Safety." November 17 Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University, and Pinar Keskin, Wesleyan University. "Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short and Long‑run Impacts of Unsustainable Water Use." December 1 Hunt Allcott, MIT, and Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard. "External Validity." 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.
ENR-551y/Econ 2690hf Spring 2010, Wednesday, 4:10-5:30 p.m. Support from Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics February 10 Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University, and Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh. "Segregation and Tiebout Sorting: Investigating the Link Between Public Goods and Demographic Composition." March 3 Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley. "Allocating Emissions Permits in Cap‑and‑Trade Programs: Theory and Evidence." March 31 Paulina Oliva, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Environmental Regulations and Corruption: Automobile Emissions in Mexico City." April 7 Shanti Gamper‑Rabindran, University of Pittsburgh, and Stephen Finger, University of South Carolina. "Does Self‑Regulation Reduce Pollution? Responsible Care in the Chemicals Industry." April 14 Sheila Olmstead, Yale University, Carolyn Kousky, and Roger Sedjo, Resources for the Future. "Subsidizing Disaster: Estimating the Effects of Wildfire Suppression on Land Development." April 21 Matthew Kotchen, Yale University. "The Public Economics of International Environmental Agreements." April 28 Soumya Balasubramanya, Lori Bennear, Alex Pfaff, and Alessandro Tarozzi, Duke University. "Bright Lines, Risk Beliefs, and Risk Avoidance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Bangladesh."
ENR-551y/Econ 2690hf Fall 2009, Wednesday, 4:10-5:30 p.m. Support from Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics 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." Seminar in Spring 2009, Wednesday, 4:10-5:30 p.m. Support from Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics January 28 Soren Anderson, Michigan State University, and James Sallee, University of Chicago. "Using Loopholes to Reveal the Marginal Cost of Regulation: The Case of Fuel-Economy Standards." February 4 Cynthia Lin, University of California, Davis. "An Empirical Dynamic Model of OPEC and Non-OPEC." February 18 Thomas Klier, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Joshua Linn, University of Illinois at Chicago. "The Price of Gasoline and the Demand for Fuel Efficiency: Evidence from Monthly New Vehicles Sales Data." February 25 Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley, and Ryan Kellogg, University of Michigan. "Clearing the Air? The Effects of Gasoline Content Regulation on Air Quality." April 1 Cédric Philibert, International Energy Agency. "Price Caps and Price Floors in Climate Policy: A Quantitative Assessment." April 15 Robert Pindyck, MIT. "Uncertainty, Extreme Outcomes, and Climate Change Policy." April 29 Nicholas Muller, Middlebury College, William Nordhaus, and Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University. "Environmental Accounting: Methods with an Application to the U.S. Economy."
Seminar in Fall 2008, Wednesday, 4:10-5:30 p.m. Support from Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics September 24 Nikhil Agarwal, Harvard University, Chanont Banternghansa, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and Linda Bui, Brandeis University. Toxic Exposure in America: Estimating Fetal and Infant Health Outcomes October 1 Hunt Allcott, Harvard University. Dynamic Pricing and Imperfect Competition in Electricity Markets October 15 Karen Fisher-Vanden, Pennsylvania State University, and Karin Thorburn, Dartmouth College. Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth October 22 Meredith Fowlie, University of Michigan, Stephen Holland, University of North Carolina, and Erin Mansur, Yale University. Evaluating Emissions Trading Using a Nearest (Polluting) Neighbor Estimator October 29 Garth Heutel, Harvard University. Optimal Environmental Policy Under Economic Fluctuations November 12 Mark Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego, Arthur van Benthem, and Lawrence Goulder, Stanford University. Impacts of State-Level Limits on Greenhouse Gases Per Mile in the Presence of the National CAFE Standards November 19 Lucas Davis, University of Michigan, and Matthew Kahn, University of California, Los Angeles. The Environmental Consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement: A Consumption Based Approach December 3 Michael Kremer, Harvard University, Edward Miguel, Clair Null, University of California, Berkeley, and Alix Zwane, Google.org. Trickle Down: Diffusion of Chlorine for Drinking Water Treatment in Kenya? 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. For PDF format of the schedule please click here. - 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 Jason Chapman . William A. Pizer Senior Fellow and Director, Energy and Natural Resources, Resources for the Future April 8, 2008 12:00pm—1:30pm Bell Hall Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar Harvard University course number Economics 2690hf; Robert N. Stavins (Kennedy School) and Martin L. Weitzman (Department of Economics) This is a year-long research seminar on topics in environmental and natural resource economics. Prof. Robert Stavins of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Prof. Martin Weitzman of Harvard’s Department of Economics have led the seminar since the late 1980s. Seminars emphasize theoretical models, quantitative empirical analysis, and public policy applications, featuring presentations by invited speakers. In addition to students, faculty from the area typically participate in the sessions. Auditors are welcome. An orientation session for students who wish to register for the course is held on Wednesday, September 13, in Room L-382 of the Kennedy School of Government at 79 JFK Street. January 30 Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "E-Z Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates." February 6 Kelly Gallagher and Erich Muehlegger, Harvard University. “Giving Green to Get Green? Incentives and Consumer Adoption of Hybrid Vehicle Technology.” February 13 Mathew Adler, University of Pennsylvania. "Risk Equity: A New Proposal." February 27 David Rapson, Boston University. “Consumer Durable Goods and the Long-Run Demand for Electricity” March 5 Jay Shimshack, Tufts University, “Mercury Advisories and Household Health Trade-Offs.” March 19 Robert Hahn, AEI Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. “The Evolving Role of Economic Analysis in Regulatory Decision Making.” April 9 William Pizer, Resources for the Future, “Prices vs. Quantities vs. Bankable Quantities for Stock Pollutants” April 16 Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University, “Measuring the Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing” April 16 Ian Perry, Resources for the Future, “Should Urban Transit Subsidies Be Reduced?” For a PDF of the schedule please click here.
Environmental Economics Public Talk Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting Scholar Charles D. Kolstad (UCSB Bren School) "Climate Change: is economics the source of the problem or the key to the solution?" Location: 5th Floor Taubman Building, Allison Dining Room, Kennedy School of Government Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar Harvard University course number Economics 2690hf; Robert N. Stavins (Kennedy School) and Martin L. Weitzman (Department of Economics) This is a year-long research seminar on topics in environmental and natural resource economics. Prof. Robert Stavins of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Prof. Martin Weitzman of Harvard’s Department of Economics have led the seminar since the late 1980s. Seminars emphasize theoretical models, quantitative empirical analysis, and public policy applications, featuring presentations by invited speakers. In addition to students, faculty from the area typically participate in the sessions. Auditors are welcome. An orientation session for students who wish to register for the course is held on Wednesday, September 13, in Room L-382 of the Kennedy School of Government at 79 JFK Street. September 19 Student Orientation September 26 Lucas Davis, University of Michigan. “The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico City.” October 3 Scott Taylor, University of Calgary. “Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison” October 17 Martin Weitzman, Harvard University. “Structural Uncertainty and the Value of Statistical Life in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change” October 24 A. Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University, and Molly Lipscomb, University of Colorado. “Decentralization, Spillovers and Water Quality: Evidence from the Re-drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil.” November 7 Kate Emans Sims, Harvard University. “The Effects of Protected Areas on Land Use and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Northern Thailand.” November 28 Joshua Margolis, Harvard University, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, University of California, Berkeley, and James P. Walsh, University of Michigan. “Does It Pay to Be Good? A Meta-Analysis and Redirection of Research on the Relationship Between Corporate Social and Financial Performance” December 5 Charles Kolstad and Nicholas Burger, University of California, Santa Barbara. “Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty” 20th World Energy Conference: Rome, Italy Special Session WEC Fulvio Conti, CEO, Enel, Italy Click here for more on the event. Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government 25th Anniversary Celebration Post-Kyoto International Policy Architecture to Address Global Climate Change Robert Stavins, Kennedy School of Government, Director HEEP Click here for more on the event. Second Annual Conference on Institutional Foundations for Industry Self-Regulation Boston, Massachusetts Organized by Michael W. Toffel, this conference convenes scholars researching institutional mechanisms for solving industry-wide problems. These "institutions for self-regulation" operate in a wide array of domains including collaborative research and development, environmental protection, fiduciary responsibility, consumer protection, and worker or product safety. Examples include open source communities, professional codes of conduct, ratings organizations, standard-setting bodies, and a variety of private-sector alternatives to government regulation. See the conference web page for a call for papers, due December 1, 2006. Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Co-Coordinators: Robert Stavins and Martin Weitzman Wednesdays, 4:00-5:30 p.m. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC September 13 — Student Orientation October 4 — Michael Kremer, Harvard University, et al. "Is Clean Water Overrated?" October 11 — Jeffrey Zabel, Tufts University, and Robert Paterson, Industrial Economics. "The Impact of Critical Habitat Designation on the California Housing Market." October 18 — Jay Shimshack, Tufts University, et al. "Mandatory Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance in the Electricity Industry." October 25 — Tom Tietenberg, Colby College. "Design Insights from the Use of Tradable Permits for Air Emissions, Water Allocation, and Fisheries." November 1 — Fan Zhang, Harvard University. "Does Electricity Restructuring Benefit the Environment? A Structural, Empirical Analysis of Intertemporal Emission Trading in the U.S. SO2 Allowance Market." November 8 — Alexander Pfaff and Juan Andres Robalino, Columbia University. "Evaluating Policy Impacts on Tropical Deforestation." November 15 — Wolfram Schlenker and Michael Roberts, Columbia University. "Non-Linear Effects of Weather on Crop Yields: Implications for Climate Change." November 29 — James Hammitt, Harvard University, and Nicolas Treich, University of Toulouse. "Statistical vs. Identified Lives in Benefit-Cost Analysis." Architectures for Agreement: Cambridge, Massachusetts BY INVITATION ONLY Economists and other scholars — particularly from the United States — have been critical of the Kyoto Protocol, noting that because of its specific deficiencies it will be ineffective for the problem, and relatively costly for the little it accomplishes. Some others have been more supportive of the Protocol, noting that it is essentially the "only game in town." Both sides agree, however, that whether this first step is good or bad, a second step is required. Given the global commons nature of the climate change problem, a central element of that second step will most likely be an international agreement. The basic shape and structure of that agreement — its architecture — is the focus of the workshop and subsequent book. "Workshop focuses on next steps after Kyoto Protocol," Harvard University Gazette, May 18, 2006. (PDF Version of article.) |
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