Yale Environmental Economics Seminar

 
  SEMINAR SCHEDULE – SPRING 2005

 

January 26

J. Baird Callicott (Bioethicist-In-Residence, Yale University)  – “The Intrinsic Value of Nature in the Context of Economic Valuation”

 

February 16

Wolfram Schlenker (UCSD/Princeton) – “An Error Correction Approach to  Reconciling Historical Records on Fish Stocks” (with Richard T. Carson, Clive Granger, and Jeremy Jackson)

 

February 23

Ruben Lubowski (USDA) – “Decoupling Payments from Production: Did the 1996 Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act Correct a Distortion?”

 

March 23

Sheila Olmstead (Yale FES) and Erin Mansur (Yale SOM/Yale FES) – "Are Brown Lawns the Right Drought Policy? The Welfare Impacts of Non-Price Water Demand Management."

 

March 30

Halla Qaddumi (Yale FES, PhD student) – “The Efficiency of Informal Institutions for Allocating Natural Resources: A Case Study of Water Use in the Vaigai River Basin”

 

April 6

Kathy Segerson (University of Connecticut) – “Collective Agreements and the Use of Less Polluting Products,” (with Rasha Ahmed)

 

April 20

Matthew Kotchen (Williams/UCSB) – “Explaining the Appearance and Success of Voter Referenda for Open-Space Conservation” (with Shawn M. Powers)

 

April 27

Nicholas Muller and Robert Mendelsohn (Yale FES) – “An Integrated Assessment of Ozone Impacts of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions Near Atlanta” (with D. M. Tauzerall and D. Q. Tong)

** NOTE – Seminar for April 27th will meet in Room A30, 60 Sachem St. **

 

May 4

Hilary Sigman (Rutgers University) – “Environmental Liability and the Redevelopment of Old Industrial Sites”

 


Wednesdays,  4:00 – 5:30 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.