Seminar in

Environmental Economics and Policy

API-905y/Econ 3116

Robert Stavins and Martin Weitzman

https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/44157

Spring 2019, Wednesday, 4:15-5:30 pm

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

January 30 Scott Irwin, University of Illinois, Kristen McCormack, and James Stock, Harvard University. AThe Price of Biodiesel RINs and Economic Fundamentals.@

February 6 Arik Levinson, Georgetown University, and Emilson Silva, University of Alberta. AThe Electric Gini: Income Redistribution through Energy Prices.@

February 27 Stephen Holland, University of North Carolina, Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College, Nicholas Muller, Carnegie Mellon University, and Andrew Yates, University of North Carolina. ADecompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation.@

March 6 Joseph Aldy, Harvard University. ATransparency in Climate Policy: Using Forecasting Tools to Evaluate Emission Mitigation Efforts.@

April 10 Marshall Burke, Stanford University and Solomon Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley. AWarming and Welfare: Global Micro Evidence.@

            April 17 Torben Mideksa, Uppsala University. AManaging Transboundary Public Goods.@

April 24 Robin Burgess, London School of Economics, Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago, Nicholas Ryan, Yale University, and Anant Sudarshan, University of Chicago. AThe Demand for Off-Grid Solar Power: Evidence from Rural India=s Surprisingly Competitive Retail Power Market.@

Note: Name of presenter is in Bold.

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.