Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

University of California, Berkeley

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar

Seminar meets on Wednesday at 12pm in 201 Giannini Hall

Date Speaker Affiliation Presentation Title
January 18 Kevin Tsui University of Chicago More Oil Less Democracy?: Theory and Evidence from Crude Oil Discoveries
January 25 Rebecca Moore University of Wisconsin Uncertain respondents, hypothetical bias, and contingent valuation: The consequences of modeling the wrong decision making process
February 1 Meredith Fowlie Berkeley ARE Emissions Trading, Electricity Industry Restructuting, and Investment in Pollution Abatement
February 8 No Seminar
February 15 Claudio Ferraz Berkeley ARE Political Influence and Environmental Regulation: Evidence from Local Elections and Decentralized Pollution Control in Brazil
February 22 Dave Newburn Berkeley ARE Modeling Suburban and Rural Residential Development Beyond the Urban Fringe
March 1 Susan Stratton Berkeley ARE Encouraging Local Groundwater Management: A Political Economic Assessment
March 8 Xiangyi Meng Berkeley ARE Can growth compensate inequality and risk? --- a welfare analysis of Chinese Urban Households
March 15 Jenny Aker Berkeley ARE Of Markets and Famines: Understanding Market Performance during the 2005 Food Crisis in Niger
March 22 Peter Kelly Berkeley ARE Reforestation subsidies in China: The world's largest experiment in conservation and development
March 29 No Seminar    -    Spring Break
April 5 Marie-Francoise Calmette Universite de Toulouse On the governments' ability to implement optimal environmental policies during trade liberalization
April 12 Richard Swinton Department of Primary Industries, Australia Protecting and sharing water resources - an Australian perspective
April 19 David Roland-Holst Berkeley ARE Modeling Emissions Policy Options for Beijing
April 26 Emma Aisbett Berkeley ARE Bilateral Investment Treaties: securing, signaling, or selecting for a good environment for foreign investment?
May 3 Jesper Stage Umeå University, Sweden Ivory Trade
We're always looking for future speakers! Please write us if you would like to present or suggest an outside speaker for next semester.
Coordinators: Susan Stratton and Ryan Kellogg

Whenever possible, papers will be available on this website at least two days prior to the presentation.
Presentation papers from previous semesters are also available.


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