Seminar in
Environmental Economics and Policy

ENR-551y/Econ 2690hf
Robert Stavins and Martin Weitzman
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword= k40206

Fall 2008, Wednesday, 4:10-5:30 p.m.
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Support from Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics
and the Department of Economics is Gratefully Acknowledged

September 24 Nikhil Agarwal, Harvard University, Chanont Banternghansa, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and Linda Bui, Brandeis University. Toxic Exposure in America: Estimating Fetal and Infant Health Outcomes

October 1 Hunt Allcott, Harvard University. Dynamic Pricing and Imperfect Competition in Electricity Markets

October 15 Karen Fisher-Vanden, Pennsylvania State University, and Karin Thorburn, Dartmouth College. Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth

October 22 Meredith Fowlie, University of Michigan, Stephen Holland, University of North Carolina, and Erin Mansur, Yale University. Evaluating Emissions Trading Using a Nearest (Polluting) Neighbor Estimator

October 29 Garth Heutel, Harvard University. Optimal Environmental Policy Under Economic Fluctuations

November 12 Mark Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego, Arthur van Benthem, and Lawrence Goulder, Stanford University. Impacts of State-Level Limits on Greenhouse Gases Per Mile in the Presence of the National CAFE Standards

November 19 Lucas Davis, University of Michigan, and Matthew Kahn, University of California, Los Angeles. The Environmental Consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement: A Consumption Based Approach

December 3 Michael Kremer, Harvard University, Edward Miguel, Clair Null, University of California, Berkeley, and Alix Zwane, Google.org. Trickle Down: Diffusion of Chlorine for Drinking Water Treatment in Kenya?

For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.

For PDF format of the schedule please click here.

- Environmental Economics Research Lunch -

Students present their research in environmental and natural resource economics. The lunch is open to PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty from Boston area universities. For more information about the lunch schedule, please contact Jason Chapman .