Environment and Resource Economics Seminar

Environment and Resource Economics Seminar

Seminar meets on Wednesday at 12pm in 332 Giannini Hall

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.

Date Speaker Affiliation Presentation Title
January 20
January 27
February 3
February 10 David Zilberman UC Berkeley, ARE Natural Resource Economics and Conservation: Contributions of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Economists
February 17 Erin Baker UMass, Amherst Optimal Climate Change Energy Technology R&D Portfolios under Uncertainty
February 24 Eric Naevdal Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research Climate Change, Catastrophic Risk and the Relative Unimportance of the Pure Rate of Time Preference
March 3 Michael Springborn UC Davis Closing the gap between risk estimation and decision-making: efficient management of trade-related invasive species risk
March 10 Maoyong Fan Ball State University The Long-term Health Effects of China's Great Famine 1959-1961
March 17 Edward Miguel UC Berkeley, Econ Choose your Poison: Transportation Risk and the Value of Life
March 24 -- -- No seminar - Spring Break
March 31 Deepak Rajagopal UCB, Energy Biosciences Institute Emissions and Energy Security: Comparing Clean Fuel Mandates and Fuel Carbon Standards
April 7 Mitsuru Igami UCLA, Anderson School of Management Oligopoly in International Commodity Markets: The Case of Coffee Beans
April 14 Leslie Martin UC Berkeley, ARE Trade liberalization and energy efficiency
April 21 Jennifer Ifft UC Berkeley, ARE Production and Risk Prevention Response of Free Range Chicken Producers in Viet Nam to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreaks
April 28 Dennis Aigner UCSB, Bren School
May 5 Koichiro Ito UC Berkeley, ARE How Do Consumers Respond to Nonlinear Pricing? Evidence from Household Electricity Demand

We're always looking for future speakers! Please write us if you would like to present or suggest an outside speaker for next semester:

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