Applied Environmental Economic Seminars

Our Applied Environmental Economic Seminar is a forum on issues significant to U.S. domestic and international environmental policy with some of the field's leading experts.

Each seminar will be 90 minutes and give speakers a chance to present upcoming work as well as engage in an open dialogue with EDF staff and the wider environmental and economics and policy community.

When and Where

Presentations are typically scheduled for Thursdays from 11:30am to 1:00pm. They'll take place in our DC or New York offices and will be viewable via video link from our Sacramento and DC or New York offices.

Upcoming Seminars

February 14, 2013 (NY)
"The Price of Climate Risk"
Bob Litterman, Kepos Capital

April 18, 2013 (NY)
"Up or Out: Patterns of Urban Growth in Contemporary China (1950-2000)"
Peter Christensen, Yale

May 9, 2013 (NY)
"The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment"
Richard Schmalensee, MIT, and Robert Stavins, Harvard

Past Seminars

December 6, 2012 (NY)
"The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth"
Solomon Hsiang, Princeton and Berkeley (joint work with Amir Jina)

November 15, 2012 (NY)
"Regulating Greenhouse Gases from Coal Power Plants under the Clean Air Act"
Joshua Linn, Resources for the Future (joint with Erin Mastrangelo and Dallas Burtraw)

November 8, 2012 (NY)
"The Cost of Potential Cap-and-Trade Policy: An Event Study using Prediction Markets and Lobbying Records"
Kyle Meng, Columbia University

October 23, 2012 (NY)
"The EU ETS: Lessons and Challenges”
Denny Ellerman, MIT emeritus
(See PDF slides)

October 18, 2012 (NY)
"Deconstructing the 'Rosenfeld Curve': Why is per capita residential energy consumption in California so low?”
Anant Sudarshan, Harvard

October 11, 2012 (DC)
"Water quality in Gasland: an analysis of the impacts of shale gas development"
Sheila Olmstead, Resources for the Future (joint work with Lucija Muehlenbachs, Jhih-Shyang Shih, Jessica Chu, and Alan Krupnick)

December 1, 2011 (NY)
"A New (Economic) Approach to Environmental Technology Standards"
Maria Damon, NYU

November 17, 2011 (NY)
"Beliefs and Identification in Dynamic Hedonic Models"
Matthew Ranson, Harvard

July 28th, 2011 (DC)
"Strategic Trading Behavior and Technology Innovation"
Luca Taschini, LSE

May 26th, 2011 (DC)
"Induced development in risky locations: fire suppression and land use in the American West"
Sheila Olmstead, RFF

April 14, 2011 (NY)
"Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities: Implications for the US Ethanol Mandate" (Paper)
Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia

February 11, 2011 (NY)
"Externalizing the Internality"
Hunt Allcott, MIT

February 4, 2011 (NY)
"Energy Conservation 'Nudges' and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment"
Matt Kahn, UCLA & NBER

January 6, 2011 (NY)
"The Impact of Regulation on Green Innovation"
Antoine Dechezleprêtre, London School of Economics and Political Science

December 16, 2010 (NY)
"Do Changes in the Global Climate Generate Violence? Evidence from El Nino and Civil Conflicts since 1950"
Solomon Hsiang, Columbia

October 21, 2010 (NY)
"Allocation in environmental markets: A field experiment with tree planting contracts in Malawi"
Kelsey Jack, Harvard

October 7, 2010 (NY)
"Leveling the playing field: Border taxes on embodied carbon"
Kirk Hamilton, The World Bank

May 6,  2010 (NY) (rescheduled from February 25th)
"The Good, the Bad and the Reality of Environmental Offsets"
Matthew Kotchen, Yale

February 25, 2010 (NY)
"The Good, the Bad and the Reality of Environmental Offsets"
Matthew Kotchen, Yale

February 11, 2010 (NY)
“A Focus on Individuals to Guide Nations Towards a Low Carbon World”
Massimo Tavoni and Shoibal Chakravarty, Princeton

January 28, 2010 (NY)
"Valuing Future Costs and Benefits: A Key Issue in Climate Economics"
Thomas Sterner, EAERE

January 14, 2010 (DC)
"Information and Price Discovery with Price Controls: An Application to Carbon Markets"
Andrew Stocking, CBO

January 7, 2010 (DC)
"Climate Change and Extreme Events: Managing Catastrophic and Dependent Risks"
Carolyn Kousky, RFF

November 24, 2009 (DC)
"Social Cost of Carbon and its Regulatory Role"
Steven Rose, EPRI

November 19, 2009 (NY)
"Measuring the Impact of Climate Change on Damages from Extreme Events"
Robert Mendelsohn, Yale

October 15, 2009 (DC)
"An Analysis of Adaptation as a Response to Climate Change"
Enrica De Cian (Bio PDF), FEEM(joint presentation with Francesco Bosello and Carlo Carraro)

September 10, 2009 (NY)
"Positive Energy and Applications of Behavioral Economics to Energy Conservation"
Hunt Allcott, MIT and NYU

Comments, questions or suggestions?

If you would like to attend one of the upcoming seminars, or have suggestions for other speakers or topics, please contact Gernot Wagner.