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Environment Resource Group (ERG) Past Seminars
Spring 2011 Seminars:
March 28th: Linda Cohen, UC Irvine
"Derivative Markets for Pollution Permits and Incentives to Innovate" paper
April 4th: Katrina Jessoe, UC Davis
"Electricity Subsidies for Agriculture: Evaluating the Impact and Persistence of These Subsidies in India" paper
April 11th: Sheila Olmstead, RFF
"Induced Development in Risky Locations: Fire Suppression and Land Use in the American West"
paper
April 18th: Ben Gilbert, UCSD
"To What Electricity Price Signal do Consumers Respond? Demand Response
Upon Receipt Versus Payment of Monthly Bills"
April 25th: Mike Madowitz, UCSD
"Can environmental fees reduce state tax revenue volatility?"
May 2nd: Nicholas Sanders, Stanford University
"Where Have all the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure the Effect of Pollution on Fetal Death Rates"
May 9th: Series of short presentations from visitors and students
Speakers: Chris Steiner, Brigitte Roth Tran, Takuya Nakaizumi, and Jacob Johnson
May 16th: Junjie Zhang, IR/PS
"The Carbon Market, Congestion and Wind Power in China: A Structural Approach"
May 23rd: Gabriela Muñoz-Melendez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
"A Regional Carbon Trading Scheme for California and Baja California"
May 30th: (No meeting -- Memorial Day)
Winter 2011:
January 24: Matt Lauer, SDSU
will discuss his work on Marine Protected Areas in the Solomon Islands
January 31: Hans Ellefson, Visiting Graduate Student, Univ. of Southern Denmark
will discuss his work on Stability of Fishing Agreements with Entry: The North East Atlantic Mackerel
February 7: Megan Bailey, Graduate Student, UBC
"Can Cooperative Management of Tuna Fisheries in the Pacific Solve the Growth Overfishing Problem?"
February 14: Anthony Liu, Graduate Student, UCSD
"Incorporating Endogenous Tax Evasion into CGE Models: Implementation and an Illustration"
February 28: Josh Graff-Zivin, UCSD
"The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity"
March 8: Severin Borenstein, UC-Berkeley
"Redistributional Impacts of Non-Linear Electricity Pricing"
NOTE: Joint Seminar with the Applied Seminar: Meeting Time: 3:30 - 5:00 pm : Meeting Room: Economics 300
March 14: Erik Lichtenberg, Univ. of Maryland
"Tariffs and the Risk of Invasive Pest Introductions" paper"
March 17: Josh Cinner, Univ. New South Wales
will discuss his work on Co-management of Fisheries in Developing Countries
NOTE: Meeting Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm : Meeting Place: Economics 300
Fall 2010:
October 4: Ben Gilbert, Graduate Student, UCSD
will discuss his work on (i) Fisheries and (ii) Smart Electric Meters
October 11: Kevin Novan, Graduate Student, UCSD
will discuss his work on the Implications of Wind Generated Electricity
October 18: Richard Carson, UCSD
"Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: A Household Labor Market Approach"
October 25: Jarrod Welch, Graduate Student, UCSD
will discuss his work on Climate Change, Rice and Farmer Response
November 1: Mike Madowitz, Graduate Student, UCSD
"Excise Tax Adjustment Mechanisms: An Application to the California Gasoline Market"
November 8: Anthony Liu, Graduate Student, UCSD
will discuss his work on Privatization of Sewage Treatment in China
November 15: Marty Smith, Duke University
"The Dynamic Efficiency Costs of Common-Pool Resource Exploitation"
paper
November 22: Marta Vicarelli, Graduate Student, Columbia University
"Exogenous Income Shocks and Consumption Smoothing in Rural Mexico" paper
NOTE: Joint with IR/PS : Meeting Time: 12:30 - 2:00 pm : Meeting Place: IR/PS Dean's Conference Room
November 29: Prashant Bharadwaj, UCSD
will discuss his work on Climate, Pollution and Human Capital
Spring 2010 Seminars:
March 29th: Anthony Liu, UCSD
April 5th: Kevin Novan, UCSD "Estimates of the Environmental Benefits of Wind Generation" abstract
and Sam Dastrup, UCSD "Solar Panels and Residential Property Values" abstract
April 12th: Jeffrey LaFrance, UC Berkeley and Washington State University
"Risk Management and the Intensive and Extensive Margin in U.S. Agriculture" paper
April 19th: Chris Knittel, UC Davis
"Caution Drivers! Children Present: Traffic, Air Quality and Infant Health"
April 26th: Ben Gilbert, UCSD
May 3rd: Meredith Fowlie, UC Berkeley
"Allocating Emissions Permits in Cap-and-Trade Programs: Theory and evidence" paper
May 10th: Jacob LaRiviere, UCSD
May 17th: Kerry Smith, Arizona State University
"Valuing Ecosystem Services in General Equilibrium" paper
May 24th: Darwin Hall, CSU Long Beach
"Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Water Rates" related papers
May 31st: (Holiday)
June 7th: Jarrod Welch
Winter 2010 Seminars:
January 11th: Mary Evans, Claremont McKenna College
January 18th: (Holiday)
January 25th: Sam Dastrup
February 1st: Ben Fissel/Richard Carson (30 minutes each)
February 8th: James Hilger, National Marine Fisheries Service
February 15th: (Holiday)
February 22nd: Ariel Dinar, UC Riverside
March 1st: Mike Madowitz and Ben Gilbert
March 8th: Naomi Oreskes
Winter Quarter 2009 Seminars:
January 12: Ben Gilbert (UCSD) "Voluntary Fishing Cooperatives vs. Individual Fishing Quotas: Which is the First-Best Solution?"
January 19: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday: No seminar
January 26: Cynthia Lin (UC Davis) An Empirical Dynamic Model of OPEC and Non-OPEC (1 1/2 hours)
February 2: Jacob LaRiviere (UCSD) "The Role of Federal Labs in Research Joint Ventures"
February 9: Joshua Cinner (Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies)
"Linking Social and Ecological Systems to Sustain Coral Reef Fisheries"
Joint with Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, SIO.
February 16: President's Day Holiday: No seminar
February 23: Robert Deacon (UC Santa Barbara) The Efficiency Gains from Coordinating Effort in a Fishery: Evidence from the Chignik Salmon Cooperative" (1 1/2 hours)
March 2: Mark Jacobsen (UCSD) "Impacts of State-Level Limits on Greenhouse Gasses per Mile in the Presence of Naitonal CAFE Standards" (abstract)
March 9: Ben Fissel (UCSD) and Anthony Liu (UCSD): graduate student research reports
March 16: Exam Week: No seminar
March 23: Spring Break: No Seminar
Spring Quarter 2009 Seminars:
March 30: Steve Stohs (NMFS) A Kalman Filter for Environmental Risk: Measuring Spatio-temporal Variation in Sea Turtle Bycatch Rates
April 6: Charles Kolstad (UCSB): Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty
April 13: Jeffrey O'Hara (Chicago Climate Exchange) "CCX: The U.S. Carbon and Environmental Derivatives Exchange"
April 20: Jacob LaRiviere (UCSD) "The Influence of Crew Remuneration Regimes on Fleet Capacity and Optimal Fisheries Management" (abstract) and
James Hilger (NMFS) "Objective Measure Perception Discrepancy: Swimming in Sewage"
April 27: James Sanchirico (UCD): "Economically Optimal Management of a Metapopulation" (abstract)
May 4: Jarrod Welch (UCSD) "Measuring the Effects of Temperature on Rice Agriculture in Asia" and
Kevin Novan (UCSD) "Variable Fuel Taxation: An Application to California"
May 11: Christopher Costello (UCSB): "Spatial Property Rights and Efficient Resource Use" (abstract)
May 18: Geir Asheim (Univ of Oslo): "Intergenerational Equity"
Background papers:
Sustainable Recursive Social Welfare Functionsf and
Sustainability and Discounted Utilitarianism in Models of Economic Growth
May 25: Memorial Day: No Seminar
June 1: Suresh Muthulingam (UCLA, Cornell): Managerial Biases and Energy Savings: AN Empirical Analysis of the Adoption of Process Improvement Recommendations
Joint seminar with Rady School of Management, IR/PS, and Department of Economics
Fall 2009 Seminars:
September 28th: Organizational meeting and research updates from faculty and students
October 5th: Anthony Liu
Title: Tax Evasion and the Double Dividend
October 12th: Adam Rose (visiting from USC) 12:00-1:30pm seminar
Title: Economic Analyses of State and Regional Climate Action Plans in the U.S.
Related paper: PDF
and flyer for Adam Rose's new book: PDF
October 19th: Ben Gilbert "Firm Boundaries and Environmental Performance" and
Brigitte Roth-Tran "Discounting Behavior and Environmental Decisions" PDF
October 26th: Jacob LaRiviere (job market candidate) 12:00-1:30pm
Title: Profit Sharing in Natural Resource Industries: Implications and Optimal Management
November 2nd: Tom Corringham
November 9th: Ben Fissel "Cointegration Analysis in Multispecies Fisheries" 12:00-1:00pm
November 16th: Double feature, 12:00 - 1:30pm
Laura Grant (UC Santa Barbara) "Fishing for a Catch: Marine Protected Areas and California's Commercial Spiny Lobster Trappers"
and Kevin Novan (UCSD) "Estimating the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Avoided by Wind Generation"
November 23rd: Linda Fernandez (UC Riverside) 12:00-1:30pm
"Dynamic Analysis Of Open Space Value Using A Repeat Sales/Hedonic Approach" PDF
November 30th: Series of short talks: Master's students from UCSD's Marine Biodiversity and Conservation program
