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Environmental Economics

Yale Environmental Economics Seminar

Wednesdays, 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Kroon Hall Room 321

Seminar Schedule - 2013

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Spring 2013
February 6 Kenneth Gillingham (Yale FES) - "Automaker Responses to Fuel Economy Standards"
February 13 Raymond Guiteras (University of Maryland Economics) - "Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Voter and Politician Responses to a Large-Scale Randomized Intervention"
February 20 Emanuele Massetti (FEEM/Yale FES) - "On the Use of Growing Degree Days in Econometric Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture"
March 6 Eli Fenichel (Yale FES) - "Natural Capital from Metaphor to Measurement"
March 27 Arthur van Benthem (UPenn Wharton) - "Do We Need Speed Limits on Freeways?"
April 3 Richard Howarth (Dartmouth ENVS) - "Rising Discount Rates for Risky Public Policies?"
April 10 David Keiser and Jeffrey Chow (Yale FES) - "The Effectiveness of Overlapping Pollution Regulation: Evidence from the Ban on Phosphate in Dishwasher Detergent" (Keiser) and "Extractive Benefits of Mangrove Plantations in Coastal Bangladesh" (Chow)
April 17 Kenneth Small (UC Irvine Economics) - "The Rebound Effect for Automobile Travel: Asymmetric Response to Price Changes and Other Quirks of the 2000s"
April 24 Derek Lemoine (Arizona Economics) - "Green Expectations: Current E ffects of Anticipated Carbon Pricing"
May 1 Matthew Harding (Stanford Economics) - "Environmental Justice: Evidence from Superfund Cleanup Durations"

Organizers:
  • Kenneth Gillingham (FES) and Arthur Campbell (SOM): January 2013 to present
Sponsors:
  • Center for Business and the Environment at Yale through the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Memorial

Please email Kenneth Gillingham to be placed on the seminar email list. Papers will be posted as they become available.