Winter 2025 Coase Project Conference

Note: All times listed are CST.

6:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Welcome Dinner
Momotaro

820 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607

Note: All times listed are CST.

8:30 – 8:55 a.m. | Continental Breakfast – Room 504

8:55 – 9:00 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks

Robin Burgess, London School of Economics

Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago

9:00 – 9:45 a.m. | Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Expansion of the Global Agricultural Frontier

Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

9:45 – 10:30 a.m. | Are We Consuming Too Much Groundwater?

Katherine Wagner, University of British Columbia

10:30 – 10:50 a.m. | Break

10:50 – 11:55 a.m. | New Approaches to International Climate Policy

10:50 – 11:10 a.m. | Overview of COP30 Proposals – José Scheinkman, Columbia University; Chair of the Council of Economists Advising the President of COP30

11:10 – 11:25 a.m. | Proposal for a Unified Carbon Market – Robin Burgess, London School of Economics

11:25 – 11:40 a.m. | Building a Climate Coalition: Aligning Carbon Pricing, Trade, and Development – Catherine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:40 – 11:55 a.m. | A Grand Bargain for Climate Compensation and Mitigation – Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:55 a.m. – 12:55 p.m. | Moderated Discussion

Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago (Moderator)

John Podesta, Former White House Senior Adviser for International Climate Policy; Founder of the Center for American Progress

José Scheinkman, Columbia University; Chair of the Council of Economists Advising the President of COP30

12:55 – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch – 1^st Floor Dining Room

2:00 – 2:45 p.m. | The Supernatural and the Commons

Christopher Costello, University of California Santa Barbara and Environmental Defense Fund

2:45 – 3:15 p.m. | A Mock on AMOC

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago

3:15 – 3:45 p.m. | Break

3:45 – 4:15 p.m. | Breaking the Chicken-and-Egg Problem: Evidence from China’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Development

Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago

4:15 – 4:45 p.m. | The Benefits of Public Transit to Households: Evidence from India

Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland

4:45 – 5:30 p.m. | With or Without U? Binning Bias and the Causal Effects of Temperature Shocks

Ben Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

6:30 – 9:00 p.m. | Conference Dinner
Michael Greenstone Residence
1234 East 56th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast – Room 504

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. |  Master Lecture: Economic Development and the Environment

Kelsey Jack, University of California Berkeley

Nicholas Ryan, Yale University

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Zero Energy Day: How Nationwide Blackouts Affect the Economy

Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Groundwater in a Changing Climate

Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago

11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Break

11:30 – 12:00 p.m. | Green Subsidies and Credit Constraints

Susanna Berkouwer, University of Pennsylvania

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. | Cultivating Winners by Subsidizing Losers: Evidence from the Rise of China’s EV Ecosystem

Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago

12:30 – 1:00 p.m. | Paving the Swamp: Consequences of Land Use Regulation Under the Clean Water Act

Joseph Shapiro, University of California Berkeley

1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch – 1^st Floor Dining Room

2:00 p.m. | Conference Concludes