Agenda

Wednesday, May 27, 2026
8:00am–8:55am

Registration & Breakfast

8:55am–9:00am

Welcome Remarks

Lars Peter Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

9:00am–10:00am

"Climate Engineering and Uncertainty"

David Keith, Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative, University of Chicago

10:00am–10:30am

Break

10:30am–11:30am

"Forests and Climate"

José Scheinkman, Columbia University

11:30am–1:30pm

Lunch and Young Scholars Poster Session

  • Joao Pedro Arbache (Climate Policy Initiative)
  • Joanna Harris (University of Chicago)
  • Pierre Coster (USC)
  • Anna French (ASU)
  • Martino Gilli (Bocconi)
  • Alexander von Hafften (UW-Madison)
1:30pm–2:30pm

"Climate Risk in Dynamic Spatial Equilibrium"

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago (presenter)
Adrien Bilal, Stanford University
Santiago Franco, Boston University

2:30pm–3:00pm

Break

3:00pm–4:00pm

"Household Climate Finance: Theory and Survey Data on Safe and Risky Green Assets"

Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University (presenter) 
Shifrah Aron-Dine, UC Berkeley
Johannes Beutel, Deutsche Bundesbank
Martin Schneider, Stanford University

4:00pm–4:30pm

Break

4:30pm–5:30pm

Dinner (invitation only)

5:30pm–7:00pm

Panel Discussion: "Frontiers in Climate-Economics Research: Dynamics, Uncertainty, and Policy Implications" during Dinner (invitation only)

Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago (Moderator)

Charles Taylor, Harvard Kennedy School (Panelist)

James Rising, University of Delaware (Panelist)

Olivier David Zerbib, CREST, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (Panelist)

Thursday, May 28, 2026
8:30am–9:00am

Registration & Breakfast

9:00am–10:00am

"The Other Climate Crisis"

Tiffany Shaw, University of Chicago (presenter)

Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

10:00am–10:30am

Break

10:30am–11:30am

"Climate Disasters and Macro-Finance: Facts, Adaptation and Policy"

Harrison Hong, Columbia University

11:30am–1:30pm

Lunch and Young Scholars Poster Session

  • June Choi (Stanford)
  • Meha Sadasivam (Columbia)
  • Matias Solorza (UC Davis)
  • Mark Walker (Princeton)
  • Zebang Xu (Cornell)
1:30pm–2:30pm

"Additionality and Uncertainty in International Climate Investment: Are Compliance Carbon Markets the Answer?"

Rohini Pande, Yale University

2:30pm–3:00pm

Break

3:00pm–4:00pm

"Carbon Burden"

Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago (presenter)

Robert F. Stambaugh, Wharton

Lucian A. Taylor, Wharton

4:00pm–4:30pm

Break

4:30pm–4:50pm

“Multi-Latitude Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Across Governance Regimes”

Pietro Andreoni, Politecnico di Milano and EIEE (presenter)

Massimo Tavoni, Politecnico di Milano and EIEE

4:50pm

Meeting adjourns

Friday, May 29, 2026
8:30am–9:00am

Registration & Breakfast

9:00am–10:00am

"Incorporating Uncertainty into the Prudent Design of Climate Policy and Investment in New Technologies" (joint presentation)

Michael Barnett, Arizona State University

Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago

10:00am–10:30am

Break

10:30am–11:30am

"Human-Centered Forecasting: an AI-led Transformation of Climate Adaptation for Smallholder Farmers"

Amir Jina, University of Chicago

11:30am–1:30pm

Lunch and Young Scholars Poster Session

  • Thomas Bourany (Columbia)
  • Vanshika Fotedar (USC)
  • Bo-Yeon Jang (Brown)
  • Grégoire Sempé (Paris School of Economics)
  • Marcelo Sena (Stanford)
1:30pm

Closing Remarks