Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics (NWEPEE)

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)

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)

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: "Climate Politics in the United States"

• 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)

12:25 - 1:30 pm: Lunch