The 17th Occasional Workshop in Environmental and Resource Economics

November 9-10, 2018 || 1108 Loma Pelona Conference Center,

University of California, Santa Barbara
Co-Hosted by: Environmental Market Solutions Laboratory (emLab) and the Bren School of
Environmental Science & Management, Department of Economics

Friday, November 9, 2018

7:30 Light Breakfast

8:15 Opening Remarks

Olivier Deschenes and Kyle Meng, University of California - Santa Barbara
Christopher Costello, University of California - Santa Barbara, Director of emLab

8:30 Grant McDermott, University of Oregon

Hydro Power. Market Might.
Discussant: Lucas Davis

9:15 Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California - Berkeley

The Economic Impact of Critical Habitat Designation: Evidence from Vacant Land
Transactions
Discussant: Andrew Plantinga

10:00 Break

10:30 Stephie Fried, Arizona State University

Seawalls and Stilts: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation
Discussant: Renato Molina

11:15 Erich Muehlegger, University of California - Davis

Estimating Demand for Electric Vehicles in Low- and Middle-income Households
Discussant: Leslie Martin

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Bryan Leonard, Arizona State University

Stranded Lands: Inaccessible Public Land in the American West
Discussant: Laura Grant

13:45 Hannah Drunkenmiller, University of California – Berkeley

Accounting for Unobservable Heterogeneity in Cross-Section Using Spatial First
Differences
Discussant: Clement deChaisemartin

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14:30 Break

15:00 Ashley Langer, University of Arizona

Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental
Regulations
Discussant: Shaun McRae

15:45 Frances Moore, University of California - Davis

Rapidly Adjusting Perceptions of Temperature
Discussant: Tamma Carleton

16:30 Break

17:00 Egg-Timer Presentations (5 minutes each)

Sylwia Bialek, New York University

Monopolists and the Commons: Trading-off Yield and Disease

Akio Yamazaki, University of Calgary

Carbon Taxes, Productivity, and Reallocation: Lessons from Canadian
Manufacturing Plants

Ellen Bruno, University of California - Berkeley

Water Markets and Climate Change Adaptation: Micro-level Evidence on
Agricultural Water Demand

Nick Hagerty, University of California - Berkeley

Liquid Constrained: Estimating the Potential Gains from Water Markets

Ryan Walch, University of Oregon

The Effect of California’s Cap and Trade Program on Co-pollutants and
Environmental Justice: Evidence from the Electricity Sector

Paige Weber, Yale University

Climate Policy and Local Air Quality: How Greenhouse Gas Regulations Impacts
the Distribution of Local Air Pollutants

Eric Zou, Cornell University

Wind Turbine Syndrome: The Impact of Wind Turbines on Suicide

Louis Preonas, University of California - Berkeley

Market Power in Coal Shipping and Implications for U.S. Climate Policy

Yanjun Liao, University of California – San Diego

Weather and the Decision to Go Solar: Evidence on Costly Cancellations

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 Levi Marks, University of California – Santa Barbara
Marginal Cost of Natural Gas Leakage

Shaoda Wang, University of California - Berkeley

Environmental Regulation and Firm Productivity in China: Estimates from a
Regression Discontinuity Design

Jesus Gonzalez, University of California - Davis

Estimating Climate Change Damages in Data Scarce and Non-competitive
Settings: An Application to Mexico

Simon Quemin, Paris-Dauphine University

Linking Permit Markets Multilaterally

Alice Zhang, Columbia University

Within but Without: Involuntary Displacement and Economic Development

18:30 Reception: Loma Pelona 1100

Heavy appetizers, drinks

Saturday, November 10, 2018

8:00 Breakfast

8:30 Julian Reif, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign

The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind
Direction
Discussant: Alan Barreca

9:15 Julien Daubanes, University of Copenhagen

More Gas, Less Coal, Less CO2? Unilateral CO2 Reduction Policy with More than
One Carbon Energy Source
Discussant: Matthew Kotchen

10:00 Break

10:30 Eugenie Dugoua, London School of Economics

International Environmental Agreements and Directed Technological Change:
Evidence from the Ozone Regime
Discussant: Glenn Sheriff

11:15 David Kelly, University of Miami

Optimal Experimentation with Geoengineering
Discussant: David Anthoff

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12:00 Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University
Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Firm Productivity:
Evidence from the Electricity Sector, 1938-1999
Discussant: Matt Zaragoza-Watkins

12:45 Lunch

14:00 Information session for PhD students on the job market