Yale Environmental Economics Seminar


 

Wednesdays,  4:00 – 5:30 pm

Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse Ave.

 

SEMINAR SCHEDULE – SPRING 2007

 

Click here for schedules and papers from past semesters.

 

 

February 7

Two half sessions of work in progress by PhD candidates at Yale FES:

 

       Steven Wallander – "Impermanent Fixtures: Technological Change in Residential Water Demand"

            
Katrina Jessoe – “Welfare Gains from Improved Drinking Water Sources: Evidence from Rural India”

 

 

February 14

Martin Weitzman (Harvard) – The Stern Review on Climate Change: An Assessment

       NOTE: SEMINAR WILL BE HELD IN SAGE HALL, ROOM 32, 205 PROSPECT ST.

 

 

February 21

Carol McAusland (University of Maryland) – “Police powers, regulatory takings, and the efficient compensation of domestic and foreign investors,” (with Emma Aisbett and Larry Karp)

 

February 28

Ian Sue Wing (Boston University) – “Induced Technological Change: Firm Innovatory Responses to Environmental Regulation

 

March 7

Karen Fisher-Vanden (Dartmouth) – What Will a Science and Technology Takeoff in China Mean for Energy Use and Carbon Emissions?

 

 

– SPRING BREAK –

 

 

March 28

Joe Aldy (Resources for the Future) – “Temperature Shocks, Energy Prices, and U.S. Mortality: An Assessment of the Health Impacts of Climate Change" (with Daniel Stone)

 

April 4

Raphaele Preget (French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA), visiting Yale FES) – Hedonic Prices for Timber Auctions with Endogenous Participation” (with Patrick Waelbroeck)

 

April 11

Christopher Timmins (Duke) – Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Value of a Statistical Life” (with Thomas DeLeire)

 

April 18

Erin Mansur (Yale)   “Nearest (Polluting) Neighbor Estimates: An Empirical Estimate of the RECLAIM Market” (with Meredith Fowlie and Stephen Holland)

April 25

Sylvia Brandt (UMass-Amherst) – “Willingness to Pay for Improved Health: A Comparison of Stated and Revealed Preference Models,” with Michael Hanneman.

 

May 2

Katrin Jordan (Free University of Berlin, visiting Yale FES) – “First-Mover Advantage and Renewable Energy Policy”

 

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.