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Environmental Economics 2009

Yale Environmental Economics Seminar

2009

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March 25 Juliana Wang (PhD Candidate, Yale University) - "Has private sector participation enhanced the performance of the water and wastewater sector in China?"
April 1 Hilary Sigman (Rutgers University) - "Decentralization and environmental quality: an international analysis of water pollution"
April 8 Stephen Salant (University of Michigan) - "A Partnership Solution to the Common-Property Problem: Theory and Experimental Tests"
April 15 Nicholas Muller (Middlebury College) - "Environmental accounting: methods with an application to the United States economy"
April 22 Stephen Polasky (University of Minnesota) - "Comparing the full costs of ethanol versus gasoline"
April 29 Meredith Fowlie (University of Michigan) - "Allocating emissions permits: theory and (preliminary) evidence"
May 6 Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale SOM) - "Marketing stoves: evidence from a randomized intervention in Bangladesh"
September 9 David Weisbach (Chicago, visiting Yale Law) - "Instrument Choice is Instrumental Design"
September 16 Erin Mansur (Yale SOM) - "Firms' Costs (and Benefits) of Environmental Regulation: An Event Study of the EU Emission Trading Scheme"
September 23 Juliana Wang (PhD Candidate, Yale FES) - "Does Competition Reduce Costs? Evidence from the Restructuring of the Chinese Power Sector" (Note: Seminar in Wittink Lounge at 46 Hillhouse Avenue)
September 30 Geoff Heal (Columbia) - "The Economics of Climate Change: A Post-Stern Pespective"
October 6 (Tuesday) - 4:00-5:30 Carol McAusland (British Columbia) - "Do National Borders Matter? Intranational Trade, International Trade, and the Environment"
October 14 Andreas Lange (Maryland) - "On the Formation of Coalitions to Provide Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from the Lab"
October 21 Andrew Foster (Brown) - "The Informational Benefits of Voluntary Emissions Regulation: Evidence from the Mexican Clean Industry Program"
October 30 (Friday) - 12:00-1:30 Martin Weitzman (Harvard) - "The Extreme Uncertainty of Extreme Climate Change: An Overview and Some Implications"
November 4 Robert Mendelsohn (Yale FES) - "Measuring the Impact of Climate Change on Damages from Extreme Events"
November 11 Andrew King (Dartmouth) - "Does Green Management Really Matter?"
November 18 Arthur Campbell (Yale SOM) - "Subsidized Intermittent Technologies and Incentives for Investment"
November 25 No seminar (Thanksgiving)

Organizers:

  • Erin Mansur (SOM): May 2007 to December 2009
  • Sheila Olmstead (FES): May 2007 to June 2009
Sponsors:
  • Center for Business and the Environment at Yale through the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Memorial: September 2006 to present