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Environmental Economics 2006

Yale Environmental Economics Seminar

2006


February 15

Erin Mansur (Yale SOM/FES) and Sheila Olmstead (Yale FES) - "The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations"

February 22

Scott Barrett (John Hopkins) - "Climate Treaties and 'Breakthrough' Technologies"

March 1

Ulrich Wagner (PhD Candidate, Yale Econ) - "Estimating endogenous effects in a dynamic game of coalition formation: The case of the Montreal Protocol"

March 22

Nat Keohane (Yale SOM) - "Migration Costs and Hedonic Valuation: The Case of Air Quality" (with Patrick Bayer and Christopher Timmins)

March 29

Erin Baker (UMass-Amherst) - "Investment in Risky R&D Programs in the Face of Climate Uncertainty" (with Kwame Adu-Bonnah)

April 5

Rob Williams (University of Texas) - "An Estimate of the Second-Best Optimal Gasoline Tax, Considering Both Efficiency and Equity"

April 12

Glenn Sheriff (Columbia University, SIPA) - "Implementing an Optimal Mechanism under Adverse Selection: An Environmental Policy Application"

April 19

Erich Muehlegger (Harvard KSG) - "Gasoline Price Spikes and Regional Gasoline Content Regulations: A Structural Approach"

April 26

Gib Metcalf (Tufts) - "Energy Conservation in the United States: Understanding its Role in Climate Policy"

May 3

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran (University of Pittsburgh) - "The impact of piped water provision on Brazil's infant mortality rates: A quantile-instrumental variables approach" (with Christopher Timmins)

September 20

Bill Nordhaus (Yale Econ) - "The Economics of Hurricanes"

September 27

Jay Shimshack (Tufts) - "Mandatory Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance in the Electricity Industry" (with Magali Delmas and Maria Montes-Sancho)

October 11

Don Fullerton (Univ. of Texas ' Austin) - "The General Equilibrium Effects of Environmental Mandates" (with Garth Heutel)

October 18

Alex Pfaff and Juan Robalino (Columbia) - "Evaluating Policy Impacts on Tropical Deforestation"

October 25

Jim Bushnell (UC-Berkeley) - "The Economic Effects of Vintage Differentiated Regulations: The Case of New Source Review" (with Catherine Wolfram)
November 1

Erin Mansur (Yale SOM/FES) and Nat Keohane (Yale SOM) - "Averting Enforcement: Strategic Response to the Threat of Environmental Regulation" (with Andrey Voynov)

November 8

Sheila Olmstead (Yale FES) - "'The Impact of Right-to-Know': Information Disclosure and the Violation of Drinking Water Standards" (with Lori Snyder Bennear)

November 15

Runsheng Yin (Michigan State) - "Preliminary results and future directions in assessing the environmental and economic impacts of China's ecological restoration programs"

November 29

Robert Mendelsohn (Yale FES) - "Changing Farm Types and Irrigation as an Adaptation to Climate Change in Latin American Agriculture" (with S. Niggol Seo)

December 6

Joe Aldy (Resources for the Future) - "A Numerical Analysis of the Value of Life"

December 13

Nick Muller (PhD Candidate, Yale FES) - "Price-Based Regulation of Air Pollution with Spatially-Variant Marginal Damages"

Organizers:

  • Nat Keohane (SOM): January 2003 to May 2007
Sponsors:
  • Environmental Management Center through the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Memorial: January 2003 to May 2006
  • Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY) through the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Memorial: September 2006 to present