Yale Environmental Economics Seminar


 
  SEMINAR SCHEDULE – FALL 2005

 

 

September 21

Tanja Srebotnjak (PhD candidate, Yale FES) – Measuring National Environmental Performance using Composite Indices: Statistical Considerations and Policy Implications

 

September 28

Jay Shimshack (Tufts) – “Enforcement and Overcompliance,” with Michael Ward (Resources Policy Research Center)

 

October 5

William Nordhaus (Yale Economics Dept.) – “Geography and economics: new data and new findings from the 'GEcon project'”

 

October 12

Nathaniel Keohane (Yale SOM)  – “Policy Design and Long-Run Technical Change

 

October 19

Martin Heintzelman (PhD candidate, Univ. Michigan Econ. Dept.) – Community Assets: Measuring the Property Value Effects of Voter Referenda for Preservation

 

November 2

Stephen Ryan (MIT) – “The Costs of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry

 

November 9

Niggol Seo and Robert Mendelsohn (Yale FES) – “African Livestock Management and Climate Change

 

November 16

Valerie Mueller (Columbia University and University of Miami) and Daniel Osgood (Columbia University) – “Is ‘Doing Nothing’ a Better Coping Strategy to Climate Risk than Migrating?

 

November 30

Nicholas Muller and Robert Mendelsohn (Yale FES) – “The Damages Due to Air Pollution in the United States

 

December 7

Juan-Pablo Montero (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile/Harvard KSG) – “Market Power in a Storable-Good Market: Theory and Applications to Carbon and Sulfur Trading” (with Matti Liski)

 

 

 


Wednesdays,  4:10 – 5:40 pm

Horchow Seminar Room
Horchow Hall (
55 Hillhouse Ave.)

 

The seminar is organized by Nat Keohane (Yale School of Management).  Support comes from the Environmental Management Center at Yale.  Click here to request to be put on the email list.  Papers will be posted as they become available.