CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2023

Program

• Friday, 10 March 2023

  • 9:00 - 9:10	Welcome, Introduction, and Rules of Engagement (Maximilian Auffhammer)
    	Plenary Session 1 - Ludwig Erhard Room Energy I Chair: Doina Radulescu
    9:10 - 9:50	Decreasing Emissions by Increasing Energy Access? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on Off-Grid Solar Lights DINA POMERANZ (University of Zürich), Adina Rom, Isabel Günther
    9:50 - 10:30	Bringing Early-Stage Technologies to Market: Evidence from Utility-Scale Solar and Feed-in-Tariffs SUGANDHA SRIVASTAV (University of Oxford) – Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidate
    10:30 - 11:10	Complementary Inputs and Industrial Development: Can Lower Electricity Prices Improve Energy Efficiency? GREGOR SINGER (London School of Economics) – Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidate
    11:10 - 11:40	Coffee Break
    	Plenary Session 2 - Ludwig Erhard Room Keynote Chair: Maximilian Auffhammer
    11:40 - 12:40	Ray of Hope? China and the Rise of Solar Energy ROBIN BURGESS (London School of Economics)
    12:40 - 13:50	Lunch
    	Plenary Session 3 - Ludwig Erhard Room Climate Change I Chair: Armon Rezai
    13:50 - 14:30	Structural Modelling Changes Drive the Social Cost of Carbon MORITZ DRUPP (University of Hamburg), Frances Moore, James Rising, Simon Dietz, Ivan Rudik, Gernot Wagner
    14:30 - 15:10	Equity Weighting and Risk Adjusting the Social Cost of Carbon DAVID ANTHOFF (UC Berkeley), LISA RENNELS (UC Berkeley), Frank Errickson (Princeton) & RFF SCC Team.
    15:10 - 15:50	A Quantity-Based Approach to Constructing Climate Risk Hedge Portfolios JOHANNES STROEBEL (NYU), Gerogij Alekseev, Stefano Giglio, Quinn Maingi, Julia Selgrad
    15:50 - 16:20	Coffee Break
    	Parallel Session 4A -Ludwig Erhard Room Energy Transition Empirics Chair: Megan Lang
    16:20 - 17:00	Induced Innovation, Inventors, and the Energy Transition EUGENIE DUGUOA (LSE) and Todd Gerarden
    17:00 - 17:40	Electric Vehicle Charging Behavior and Charging Price Elasticities: An Analysis Using Swiss Data on Public Charging Stations DOINA RADULESCU (University of Bern)
    	Parallel Session 4B - Richard Musgrave Room Taxation – Theory Chair: Cees Withagen
    16:20 - 17:00	Carbon Taxation and Income Distribution: Importance of Nonlinear Engel Curves ARMON REZAI (University of Vienna), Rick Van der Ploeg, Miguel Tovar
    17:00 - 17:40	On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes BRUNO CONTE (University of Bologna), Klaus Desmet, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
    19:00	Dinner

• Saturday, 11 March 2023

  • 	Plenary Session 5 - Ludwig Erhard Room Climate Change II Chair: Maximilian Auffhammer
    9:00 - 9:40	Carbon Capture: Storage Versus Utilization CEES WITHAGEN (VU Amsterdam), Michael Moreaux, Jean-Pierre Amigues, Gerard van der Meijden.
    9:40 - 10:20	Sea Level Rise and Urban Adaptation in Jakarta ALLAN HSIAO (Princeton University)
    10:20 - 10:50	Coffee Break
    	Parallel Session 6A - Ludwig Erhard Room Empirics Chair: Dina Pomeranz
    10:50 - 11:30	Extensive Margin Responses to Intensive Margin Prices: Evidence from Subsidies for Solar Electricity in Togo MEGAN LANG (World Bank)
    11:30 - 12:10	Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation RYAN ABMAN (SDSU), Teevrat Garg, Yao Pan, and Saurabh Singhal
    12:10 - 12:50	Designing Carbon Pricing Policies FRIKK NESJE (University of Copenhagen), Robert C. Schmidt, Moritz A. Drupp
    	Parallel Session 6B - Richard Musgrave Room Theory Chair: Charles Kolstad
    10:50 - 11:30	Pigou's Advice and Sisyphus' Warning: Carbon Pricing with Non-Permanent Carbon-Dioxide Removal MAX FRANKS (PIK), Matthias Kalkuhl, Max Franks, Friedemann Gruner, Kai Lessmann, Ottmar Edenhofer
    11:30 - 12:10	The Economics of Carbon Leakage Mitigation Policies STEFAN AMBEC (Toulouse School of Economics), Federico Esposito, and Antonia Pacelli
    12:10 - 12:50	Economically Exhaustible Resources in an Oligopoly-Fringe Model with Renewables GERARD VAN DER MEIJDEN (VU Amsterdam), Hassan Benchekroun, Cees Withagen
    12:50 - 13:50	Lunch
    	Plenary Session 7 - Ludwig Erhard Room Energy Chair: David Anthoff
    13:50 - 14:30	Heterogeneity in the Pass-Through from Oil to Gasoline Prices: A New Instrument for Estimating the Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand LUTZ KILIAN (Federal Reserve Bank, Dallas) and Xiaoqing Zhou
    14:30 - 15:10	Valuing Solar Subsidies KENNETH GILLINGHAM (Yale University), Bryan Bollinger, and A. Justin Kirkpatrick
    15:10 - 15:40	Coffee Break
    	Plenary Session 8 - Ludwig Erhard Room Environment and Preferences Chair: Moritz Drupp
    15:40 - 16:20	Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making Under Thermal Stress MAXIMILIAN AUFFHAMMER (Berkeley), Ingvild Almås, Tessa Bold, Ian Bolliger, Aluma Dembo, Solomon M. Hsiang, Shuhei Kitamura, Edward Miguel, and Robert Pickmans
    16:20 - 17:00	Fog or Smog? The Impact of Uncensored Reporting on Pollution on Individuals' Environmental Awareness SVEN HARTMANN (IAAEU and Trier University)
    17:00 - 17:10	Award and Conference Close