Yale Environmental Economics Seminar

---

Wednesdays, 4:00 – 5:30 pm

Horchow Seminar Room
Horchow Hall (55 Hillhouse Ave.)

SEMINAR SCHEDULE – SPRING 2006

Click here for schedules and papers from past semesters.

February 15	Erin Mansur (Yale SOM/FES) and Sheila Olmstead (Yale FES) – “The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations.”
February 22	Scott Barrett (John Hopkins) – “Climate Treaties and ‘Breakthrough’ Technologies”
March 1	Ulrich Wagner (Ph.D. candidate, Yale University) – “Estimating endogenous effects in a dynamic game of coalition formation: The case of the Montreal Protocol”
March 22	Nat Keohane (Yale SOM) – “Migration Costs and Hedonic Valuation: The Case of Air Quality,” joint with Patrick Bayer (Yale) and Christopher Timmins (Duke)
March 29	Erin Baker (UMass-Amherst) – “Investment in Risky R&D Programs in the Face of Climate Uncertainty,” with Kwame Adu-Bonnah.
April 5	Rob Williams (University of Texas) – “An Estimate of the Second-Best Optimal Gasoline Tax, Considering Both Efficiency and Equity.”
April 12	Glenn Sherriff (Columbia University, SIPA) – “Implementing an Optimal Mechanism under Adverse Selection: An Environmental Policy Application”
April 19	Erich Muehlegger (Harvard KSG) – “Gasoline Price Spikes and Regional Gasoline Content Regulations: A Structural Approach”
April 26	Gib Metcalf (Tufts) – “Energy Conservation in the United States: Understanding its Role in Climate Policy.”
May 3	Shanti Gamper-Rabindran (University of Pittsburgh) – "The impact of piped water provision on Brazil's infant mortality rates: A quantile-instrumental variables approach," joint with Christopher Timmins (Duke).

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.