May 6-7, 2026

Spring 2026 Coase Project Conference

HOSTED BY

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Robin Burgess, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science; Director, International Growth Centre (IGC)
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Michael Greenstone, Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, UChicago; Director, Climate and Energy Institute
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LOCATION

Gleacher Center – Room 408
450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr, Chicago, IL 60611

The Coase Project Conference aims to deepen and elevate the fields of climate, energy, and environmental economics. During this two-day conference hosted at the University of Chicago David Rubenstein Forum, a leading group of interdisciplinary scholars will join UChicago’s Michael Greenstone and the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Robin Burgess to present their research and participate in creative and innovative conversations to confront the global energy and environment challenge.

May 5th, 2026

Note: All times listed are CST.

6:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Welcome Dinner
Roka Akor

456 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60654

May 6th, 2026

Note: All times listed are CST.

8:30 – 8:55 a.m. | Continental Breakfast – Room 408

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

Robin Burgess, London School of Economics

Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago

9:00 – 9:30 a.m. | Economics of Demand-Side Versus Supply-Side Climate Policies

Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago

9:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Contracting for Resilience

Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Nature in Compliance Markets

Christopher Costello, University of California, Santa Barbara

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Break

11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | From Trade War to Green Transition: Optimal Electric Vehicle Tariffs with Revenue-Funded Subsidies

Shanjun Li, Stanford University

11:30 – 12:00 p.m. | Clearing the Air on the Benefits and Costs of Road Infrastructure

Clare Balboni, London School of Economics

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. | A Million Dollars on the Roof? Development and Environmental Effects of a Rooftop Solar Energy program

John Van Reenen, London School of Economics

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch – 420 Lounge

1:30 – 2:15 p.m. | Can Price Subsidies be Used for Redistribution? \\ Tagging, Targeting, and Electricity Consumption in Indonesia

Benjamin Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:15 – 3:00 p.m. | Understanding Support for Inefficient Environmental Policy Instruments

Joseph Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley

3:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Break

3:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Master Lecture – Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM): The State of the Field

David Keith, University of Chicago

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

May 7th, 2026

Note: All times listed are CST.

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast – Room 408

9:00 – 9:30 a.m. | Plugging in the Wind and Sun: Cost Externalities in the Grid Integration of Renewable Energy

Nicholas Ryan, Yale University

9:30 – 10:15 a.m. | Whose Tree Is It Anyway? Property Rights and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago

10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | Selection and Scale in Carbon Offset Markets

Anna Russo, Harvard University

10:45 – 11:15 a.m. | Break

11:15 – 11:45 a.m. | A Hedonic Social Cost of Carbon: Evidence from US Migration

Tamma Carleton, University of California, Berkeley

11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Master Lecture – The Economics of Tropical Forests

Juliano Assunção, PUC-Rio

1:15 – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch – 420 Lounge

2:00 p.m. | Conference Concludes