Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

University of California, Berkeley

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar

Spring 2008

Seminar meets on Wednesday at 12pm in 201 Giannini Hall

Date Speaker Affiliation Presentation Title
January 30 Erin Mansur Yale Market organization and efficiency in electricity markets
Note: this presentation will take place at the Energy Institute, 2547 Channing Way (intersection Bowditch)
February 13 Howard Chong Berkeley ARE Overreacting to bad luck: Evidence of overweighting recent information in learning for crop insurance decisions
February 20 Andreas Leibbrandt University of Zurich Cooperativeness and impatience in the tragedy of the commons
March 5 David Zilberman Berkeley ARE When could payments for environmental services benefit the poor?
March 12 Justine Hastings Yale Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments
March 17
Note: presentation on a Monday
Kristin Kiesel Berkeley ARE A definition at last, but what does it all mean? Newspaper coverage of the USDA organic seal and its effects on food purchases
March 19 No seminar - Faculty Retreat
March 26 No seminar this week - SPRING BREAK
April 2 Joseph Aldy RFF
April 9 Peter Berck and
David Newburn
Berkeley ARE
Texas A&M
On Exurban Development
April 16 Koichiro Ito Berkeley ARE
April 23 Alan Meier Berkeley LBL Principal agent problems associated with the demand for energy
April 30 Tasos Xepapadeas Athens University of Economics and Business Optimal Control of Coupled Economic-Ecological Systems of Reaction-Diffusion Equations: Pattern Formation, Spatial Externalities and Regulation
May 7 Brian Gross Berkeley ARE
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: Sarah Dobson and Leslie Martin

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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