Yale Environmental Economics Seminar

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SEMINAR SCHEDULE – FALL 2004

September 22	Robert Evenson (Yale Econ. Dept.) and Tatiane DeMenezes (Univ. Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) – “Estimates of Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Productivity and Land Use in Brazil”
October 13	Nat Keohane (Yale SOM) and Christine T. Lee (Yale FES) – “Do Costs and Benefits Matter in Setting Standards? Preliminary Evidence from State Regulation of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions”
October 20	Nicholas Muller (Ph.D. Candidate, Yale FES) – “Using a Modified Hedonic Model to Value Man-Made Lakes”
October 27	Mohan Munasinghe (Munasinghe Inst. for Development; Visiting Prof. at F&ES) – “Environmental Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development” ** NOTE: Seminar on October 27 will take place in the Lounge of the International Center for Finance, 46 Hillhouse Ave.
November 3	Erin Mansur (Yale SOM and FES), Robert Mendelsohn (Yale FES), and Wendy Morrison (Texas Water Resources Institute, Texas A&M University) – “A Discrete-Continuous Choice Model of Climate Change Impacts on Energy”
November 10	Pradeep Kurukulasuriya (Ph.D. Candidate, Yale FES) and Robert Mendelsohn (Yale FES) – “The Impact of Climate Change on African Agriculture: Evidence from Household Surveys”
November 17	David Popp (Syracuse University) – “Exploring Links Between Innovation and Diffusion: Adoption of NOx Control Technologies at U.S. Power Plants”
December 1	Ulrich Wagner (Ph.D. Candidate, Yale Econ. Dept.) and Christopher Timmins (Duke University) – “Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Havens Hypothesis”
December 8	Matthew Kahn (Tufts University) – “Do Liberals Buy Hummers? Environmental Ideology as a Determinant of Private Consumption Choices”

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.