December 7-8, 2023 · In-Person at the David Rubenstein Forum

Winter 2023 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, Becker Friedman Institute (BFI)
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LOCATION

David Rubenstein Forum, Room 801

1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637

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, a leading group of interdisciplinary scholars joined UChicago’s Michael Greenstone and the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Robin Burgess to present their research and participated in creative and innovative conversations to confront the global energy and environment challenge.

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PHOTOS

Winter 2023 Coase Project Conference

Wednesday, December 6th, 2023

Note: All times listed are CST.

6:00-9:00 p.m. | Welcome Dinner

Thursday, December 7th, 2023

Note: All times listed are CST. 

8:30 – 8:55 a.m. | Continental Breakfast – 8th floor lounge

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

Robin Burgess, London School of Economics

Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Master Lecture – Payments for Conservation

Bard Harstad, Stanford University

Kelsey Jack, University of California, Santa Barbara

10:30 – 11:15 a.m. | Break

11:15 – 11:45 a.m. | The Effects and Effectiveness of Emergency Price Controls During Natural Disasters

Ishan Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Agriculture, Trade, and the Spatial Efficiency of Global Water Use

Tamma Carleton, University of California, Santa Barbara

12:30 – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch – Room 802

1:45 – 2:15 p.m. | Weathering Poverty 

Robin Burgess, London School of Economics

2:15 – 2:45 p.m. | Food Policy in a Warming World

Allan Hsiao, Princeton University

2:45 – 3:15 p.m. | Performance Incentives within a Bureaucracy: Evidence from  Electricity Revenue Collection in Bihar   

Nicholas Ryan, Yale University

3:15 – 4:00 p.m. | Break

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. | Is the Demand for Clean Air Low? Experimental Evidence from Delhi

Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago

4:30– 5:00 p.m. | How Should the World Deal with Plastic Pollution

Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland

5:00 p.m. | Conference Adjourns

6:30 – 9:00 p.m. | Conference Dinner

Friday, December 8th, 2023

9:00 – 9:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast – 8th Floor Lounge

9:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town

Kelsey Jack, University of Santa Barbara

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Conservation by Lending

Bard Harstad, Stanford University

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. | Break

10:45 – 11:15 a.m. | The Political Economic Determinants of Nuclear Energy: Evidence from Chernobyl

Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago

11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | The Value of Forecasts: Experimental Evidence from Developing-Country Agriculture        

Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. | The Global Impact of Environment Regulation through Multinational Firms

Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch – Room 802