Winter 2024 Coase Project Conference

Note: All times listed are CST.

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

445 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60654

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 – 11:00 a.m. | Master Lectures on Environment and Spatial Economics

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Spatial Environmental Economics – Joseph Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley

10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Climate Change Economics over Time and Space – Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago

11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Break

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Moderated Discussion: Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It
Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next

Todd Stern, Former Special Envoy for Climate Change, 2009-2016

Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago (Moderator)

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch – 1^st Floor Dining Room

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Behavioral Bias in Non-Linear Pricing

Christopher Costello, University of California, Santa Barbara

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. | Drive Down the Cost: Learning by Doing and Government Policies in the Global EV Battery Industry

Shanjun Li, Cornell University

2:30 – 3:00 p.m. | Incentive-Compatible Carbon Credits

Susanna Berkouwer, University of Pennsylvania

3:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Break

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. | The Value of Monitoring for Disaster Prevention: The Desert Locust

Eyal Frank, University of Chicago

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. | Firm Presence, Environmental Quality, and Agglomeration: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Relocation

Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Spillovers in the Owens Valley: Water Rights and Fairness With Spatial Externalities  

Nicholas Ryan, Yale University

5:00 p.m. | Conference Adjourns

6:30 – 9:00 p.m. | Conference Dinner
Michael Greenstone Residence

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

9:00 – 9:30 a.m. | The Gas Trap

Bard Harstad, Stanford University

9:30 – 10:15 a.m. | The Economics of Valuing Climate Damages

Ishan Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | Pass-through and Incidence of U.S. Electric Vehicle Purchase Incentives

Jing Li, Tufts University

10:45 – 11:15 a.m. | Break

11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Stochastic Responses and Valuation under Climate Change Uncertainty

Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | The Economics of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms for Lower-Income Countries

Allan Hsiao, Stanford University

12:30 – 1:00 p.m. | Using Billionaire Money to Fund a Weather-Indexed Cash Transfer: Pilot for a Proposal

Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

2:00 p.m. | Conference Concludes