Yale Environmental Economics Seminar


 

Wednesdays,  4:00 – 5:30 pm

Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse Ave.

 

SEMINAR SCHEDULE – FALL 2006

 

Click here for schedules and papers from past semesters.

 

 

September 20

Bill Nordhaus (Yale) – “The Economics of Hurricanes

NOTE: Seminar will be held in the Wittink Lounge, first floor of 46 Hillhouse Ave.

 

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) – “Averting Enforcement: Strategic Response to the Threat of Environmental Regulation” (with Nathaniel Keohane and Andrey Voynov)

November 8

Sheila Olmstead (Yale) – “’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

NOTE: Seminar will be held in Room A-51 of the main SOM classroom building, 60 Sachem St.

 

November 29

Robert Mendelsohn (Yale) – “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 (Yale, PhD candidate) – “Price-Based Regulation of Air Pollution with Spatially-Variant Marginal Damages.”

 

The seminar is organized by Nat Keohane (Yale School of Management).  Funding is graciously provided by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY).  Please email Nat Keohane to be placed on the seminar email list.  Papers will be posted as they become available.