Agenda
Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics (NWEPEE)
This conference will highlight the latest advances in energy and environmental economics, exploring key policy-oriented issues through the lenses of public economics, development economics, health economics, industrial organization, and macroeconomics.
Event Details
- Dates: Friday and Saturday, May 9th - 10th, 2025
- Locations:
- Day 1 - SOM 4430 Swersey Classroom
- Day 2 – 87 Trumbull St. B120
- Organizers: Kenneth Gillingham (Yale School for the Environment) and Nick Ryan (Department of Economics at Yale)
- Sponsored by: The Tobin Center for Economic Policy, The Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY) and the Climate, Energy and Growth Initiative at the Yale Economic Growth Center (EGC)
Agenda
Friday, May 9
9:30 - 9:35 am: Welcome and introductions
9:35 - 10:20 am: The Macroeconomics of Biodiversity Loss
- Stefano Giglio* (Yale), Theresa Kuchler (NYU), Johannes Stroebel (NYU), and Oliver Wang (NYU)
10:20 - 11:05 am: Redistribution in Environmental Permit Markets: Transfers and Efficiency Costs with Trade Restrictions
- Karl Aspelund (MIT)
11:05 - 11:25 am: Coffee Break
11:25 am - 12:05 pm: First Egg-timer Session (10 min each)
- Anshuman Bhakri (BC) - “Contract Design in Renewable Energy Auctions: Evidence from India”
- Andie Creel (Yale) - “Do Hot Deals Beat the Heat? Does Green Space Keep Bringing in the Green? The Effects of Heat and Green Space on City Storefronts”
- Hannah Farkas (Columbia) and Seung-Min Kim* (Columbia) - “Political Bias in Disaster Aid: Evidence from Administrative Data and from Space”
- Meredith Fowlie (UC Berkeley) and Charles Taylor* (Harvard) - “Land Conservation and the Clean Energy Transition”
12:05 - 1:35 pm: Lunch and Policy Panel with Ali Zaidi (former White House) and Javier Bucobo (Avangrid), moderated by Kenneth Gillingham
1:35 - 2:20 pm: Valuing Solar Subsidies
- Bryan Bollinger* (NYU), Kenneth Gillingham (Yale), Justin Kirkpatrick (MSU)
2:20 - 3:05 pm: The Efficiency of Dynamic Electricity Prices
- Andrew J. Hinchberger (Northwestern), Mark Jacobsen (UCSD), Christopher Knittel (MIT), James Sallee (UC Berkeley), Arthur van Benthem* (UPenn)
3:05 - 3:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:15 pm: The Social Lifecycle Impacts of Power Plant Siting in the Historical United States
- Karen Clay (CMU), Danae Hernandez-Cortes (ASU), Akshaya Jha* (CMU), Joshua Lewis (Montreal), Noah Miller (CMU), and Edson Severnini (BC)
4:15 - 5:00 pm: An Empirical Model of Agricultural Subsidies with Environmental Externalities
- Tristan Du Puy (Columbia)
6:00 pm: Dinner (invitation only)
Saturday, May 10
8:30 - 9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 - 9:45 am: Killer Congestion: Temperature, Healthcare Utilization and Patient Outcomes
- Sandra Aguilar-Gomez (Universidad de los Andes), Joshua Graff-Zivin (UCSD), Matthew Neidell* (Columbia)
9:45 - 10:35 am: Second Egg-timer Session (10 min each)
- Kenneth Jung (Yale) - “Moral Hazard in Resource Auctions: Evidence from the Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak
- Christopher Knittel (MIT) and Jasdeep Mandia* (MIT) - “Sorting in the Smoke: How Wildfire Pollution Shapes Household and Firm Location Choices”
- Kelsey Larson (Montana State) - “The Environmental Value of Private Land Conservation: The Role of Conservation Easement Tax Incentives”
- Jing Li* (Tufts) and Doina Radulescu (Bern) - “Congestion Pricing for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations”
- Richard Sweeney* (BC) and Joseph Wilske (BC) - “Inefficiency in Decentralized Renewable Energy Investment”
10:35 - 10:55 am: Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:40 am: Matilde Bombardini (UC Berkeley), Frederico Finan (UC Berkeley), Nicolas Longuet-Marx (Columbia), Suresh Naidu* (Columbia), Francesco Trebbi (UC Berkeley)
11:40 am - 12:25 pm: Environmental Beliefs and Adaptation to Climate Change
- Dev Patel (Harvard)