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Environmental Economics

Yale Environmental Economics Seminar

Wednesdays, 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse Avenue

Seminar Schedule - Fall 2009

(The seminar will not be taking place every Wednesday this semester - there is a Tuesday and Friday seminar)

Click here for past seminars for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009


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)
December 2	Matthew Kotchen (Yale FES) - TBA
December 9	Jun Ishii (Amherst, visiting SOM) - TBA
January 13	Matt Neidell (Columbia) - TBA
February 10	Ian Ayres (Yale Law School) - "Evidence from Two Large Field Experiments that Peer Comparison Feedback Can Reduce Residential Energy Usage"

Organizers:

Erin Mansur (SOM): May 2007 to present
Matt Kotchen (FES): July 2009 to present

Sponsors:

Center for Business and the Environment at Yale through the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Memorial and a contribution from the Dylan Todd Simonds Foundation

Please email either Erin Mansur or Matthew Kotchen to be placed on the seminar email list. Papers will be posted as they become available.