Detailed Schedule WCERE June 25-June 29, 2018

Please note that session schedules can be subject to change. For the latest updated
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Special policy lecture

SPECIAL POLICY LECTURE
Gina McCarthy presents Environmental Policy and the Assault on Science

Monday, 16.00-20.00
Room: Haga

Monday, 18.15-19.10
Room: Smyrna

Chair: Laura Taylor
Gina McCarthy served as the 13th Administrator of the US EPA from 2013 to 2017. She will address themany challenges facing the Environmental Protection Agencies and in particular discuss their
independence and strategies when subjected to adverse policy. She will focus in particular on the Assault
on Science as a key ingredient in a policy designed to undo environmental regulation. She will focus onenvironmental economics as a discipline at the frontier of the ideological battle over environmental
management.

Welcome Reception

Monday, 19.15-21.00
Room: Handels

Parallell sessions 1
Tuesday June 26, 8.30-10.15

Parallel session 1

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chair: Marica Valente, Humboldt University Berlin and DIW Berlin

Tuesday, 08.30-10.15

Room: Handels: B22

On the relevance of income and behavioral factors for absolute and relative donations: A
framed field experiment
Amantia Simixhiu, University of Kassel; Andreas Ziegler, University of Kassel
Discussant: Aneeque Javaid, Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship of Environmental Economics,
Universität Osnabrück

Sharing between me, my friends others: Common-pool resource extraction in presence ofsubgroups
Aneeque Javaid, Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship of Environmental Economics, Universität
Osnabrück
Discussant: Ning LIU, Bocconi University FEEM

Unequal Past, United Future – Reaching Agreement with Responsibilities Passed byGenerations

Ning LIU, Bocconi University FEEM; Valentina Bosetti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; Yu Gao, Polytechnic
University of Milan; Massimo Tavoni, Polytechnic University of Milan
Discussant: Marica Valente, Humboldt University Berlin and DIW Berlin

Waste Is Money: Behavioral Changes in Waste Generation Behavior When Households PayAs-They-Throw
Marica Valente, Humboldt University Berlin and DIW Berlin
Discussant: Amantia Simixhiu, University of Kassel

CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACT

Chair: Olivier Deschenes, University of California, Santa Barbara

Room: Handels: C33

Mitigating the Social Impacts of Carbon Dioxide Emissions through Peatland Restoration

Emily Pindilli, United States Geological Survey; Rachel Sleeter, United States Geological Survey; Dianna
Hogan, United States Geological Survey
Discussant: Aimilia Pattakou, ETH ZürichAs Bad as it Gets: How Climate Damage Functions Affect Growth and the Social Cost of Carbon
Aimilia Pattakou, ETH Zürich; Lucas Bretschger, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Olivier Deschenes, University of California, Santa Barbara

Weather, Climate Change and Death in India

Olivier Deschenes, University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Emily Pindilli, United States Geological Survey

CLIMATE CHANGE: REGULATION OF CARBON

Room: Handels: C22

Chair: Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Institute for Macroeconomics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Regulating Carbon in a Small Open Economy
Charles D. Kolstad, Stanford University
Discussant: Mun Ho, Harvard China Project

China Emissions Trading System and Carbon Tax Hybrid
Mun Ho, Harvard China Project; Jing Cao, Tsinghua University
Discussant: Maximilian Willner, University of Hamburg

Rushing the impatient Allowance reserves and the time profile of low-carbon investments

Grischa Perino, University of Hamburg; Maximilian Willner, University of Hamburg
Discussant: Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Institute for Macroeconomics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Killing me Softly? Regulation and Investment Leakage in Energy-Intensive Industries

Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Institute for Macroeconomics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany; PiotrŚpiewanowski, Polish Academy of Sciences
Discussant: Charles D. Kolstad, Stanford University

ECOSYSTEMS

Chair: Seong-Hoon Cho, University of Tennessee

Room: Haga: B225

Strategic interactions in landscape scale market-based conservation programs
John Tisdell, University of Tasmania; Sayed Ifekhar, University of Western Austrlia
Discussant: Kelly Grogan, University of Florida

Prisoner’s Dilemmas and Abandoned Groves: Impediments to Area-wide Pest Management
Kelly Grogan, University of Florida
Discussant: Melina Kourantidou, University of Southern Denmark

Research Agendas for Profitable Invasive Species

Melina Kourantidou, University of Southern Denmark; Brooks Kaiser, University of Southern Denmark
Discussant: Seong-Hoon Cho, University of Tennessee

Targeting Payments for Ecosystem Services Given Ecological and Economic Objectives

Moonwon Soh, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Burton English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; T.
Edward Yu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Christopher Boyer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville;
Seong-Hoon Cho, University of Tennessee
Discussant: John Tisdell, University of Tasmania

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Chair: stefano verde, FSR Climate - European University InstituteRoom: Handels: B44

IMPACT OF ENERGY-EFFICIENCY POLICIES ON INNOVATION: THE CASE OF LIGHTINGTECHNOLOGIES
Yeong Jae Kim, University of East Anglia; Marilyn Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology
Discussant: Paige Weber, Yale University

Do Building Audits Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Paige Weber, Yale University; Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University School of Forestry andEnvironmental Studies
Discussant: Don Fullerton, University of Illinois

Costs of Energy Efficiency Mandates Can Reverse the Sign of Rebound
Don Fullerton, University of Illinois; Chi Ta, University of Illinois
Discussant: stefano verde, FSR Climate - European University InstituteThe signaling effect of gasoline taxes and its distributional implications

stefano verde, FSR Climate - European University Institute; Silvia Tiezzi, University of Siena
Discussant: Yeong Jae Kim, University of East Anglia

ENERGY IN LOW INCOME COUNTRIES
Chair: Marc Jeuland, Duke University

Room: Handels: F43

Social networks and Household energy transition in Tanzania: Evidence from panel data
Kevin Rugaimukamu, University of Cape Town
Discussant: Anant Sudarshan, University of Chicago

The Demand for Off-grid Solar Power: Evidence from Rural India's Surprisingly Competitive
Retail Power Market

Anant Sudarshan, University of Chicago; Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago; Nicholas Ryan, Yale
University; Robin Burgess, London School of Economics
Discussant: Mook Bangalore, London School of Economics

Assessing the benefits of cooking stove conversion: An evaluation of Indonesia’s LPG
Conversion Program on households in West Nusa Tenggara province
Mook Bangalore, London School of Economics
Discussant: Marc Jeuland, Duke University

Adoption and short‐term impacts of improved biomass cookstoves in Udaipur, Rajasthan

Marc Jeuland, Duke University; Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University; Sushmita Samaddar, World
Bank; Ronak Shah, Seva Mandir; Mansi Vora, Independent Consultant
Discussant: Kevin Rugaimukamu, University of Cape Town

ENERGY: BEHAVIOR

Chair: Claus Ghesla, ETH Zurich

Costs and benefits of climate change in Switzerland

Room: Handels: B23

Frank Vöhringer, Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL); Marc Vielle, Ecole PolytechniqueFédérale de Lausanne; Philippe Thalmann, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Anita Frehner,
FiBL, Departement für Sozioökonomie; Wolfgang Knoke, Wolfgang Knoke Forschungsagentur; Dario
Stocker, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich; Boris Thurm, Swiss Federal Institute ofTechnology LausanneDiscussant: Haiyan Liu, University of Waterloo

Modeling Farmers’ Demand for Catastrophic Drought Risk Insurance under Climate Change
Using Choice Experiments
Roy Brouwer, The Water Institute / University of Waterloo; Haiyan Liu, University of Waterloo;
Mohamed El Otmani, Hassan II Agronomic and Veterinary InstituteDiscussant: Carmelo León, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

CONTEXT EFFECTS IN CARBON OFFSET PROGRAMS: ATTRACTION, SIMILARITY ANDCOMPROMISE

Carmelo León, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Jorge Araña, Univerity of Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria
Discussant: Claus Ghesla, ETH Zurich

Nudging the Poor and the Rich -- A Field Study on the Distributional Effects of Green
Electricity Defaults
Claus Ghesla, ETH Zurich; Manuel Grieder, ETH Zurich; Renate Schubert, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Frank Vöhringer, Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: IMPACT

Chair: Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, National University of Singapore

Room: Handels: D33

The vertical and horizontal distributive effects of energy taxes: A micro-simulation study of a
French policy
Thomas DOUENNE, Paris School of Economics
Discussant: Liza Jabbour, University of Birmingham

On the relationship between RD and eco-innovation: An Analysis of French manufacturing
firms
Liza Jabbour, University of Birmingham
Discussant: Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Does Toxic Release Information Worsen Environmental Injustice?
Xiao Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; George Deltas, University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign; Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Xiang Bi, University of Florida
Discussant: Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, National University of Singapore

How does time-of-use electricity prices affect daily reallocation of industrial pollution
emissions: Evidence from a natural experiment in Anhui, China

Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, National University of Singapore; Ping Qin, Renmin University of China; Xiao-Bing
Zhang, Renmin University of China; Lunyu Xie, Renmin University of China
Discussant: Thomas DOUENNE, Paris School of Economics

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: REGULATION
Chair: Daniel Nachtigall, OECD

Regulation, Free-Riding Incentives, and RD Investment with Spillover

Room: Handels: C24

John Strandholm, University of South Carolina Upstate; Ana Espinola-Arredondo, Washington State
University; Felix Munoz-Garcia, Washington State University

Discussant: Santiago J. Rubio, University of Valencia

Second-Best Taxation for a Polluting Monopoly with Abatement Investment

Santiago J. Rubio, University of Valencia; Guiomar Martin-Herran, Universidad de Valladolid
Discussant: Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins, Vanderbilt University

Output-based Allocation in Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs
Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins, Vanderbilt University
Discussant: Daniel Nachtigall, OECD

The impact of the European Union emissions trading scheme on carbon emissions

Daniel Nachtigall, OECD; Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics; Raphael Calel,Georgetown University
Discussant: John Strandholm, University of South Carolina Upstate

FISHERIES: MANAGEMENT ISSUES

Chair: Juan Rosas, University of Nottingham

Room: Haga: Dragonen

Spatial resolution in discrete choice models: An application to fishermen behavior andfishery management

Maxime Depalle, UC Davis; James Sanchirico, University of California, Davis; Olivier Thébaud, Ifremer;
Shay O'Farrell, University of California, Davis; Alan Haynie, NOAA/NMFS, Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Discussant: Susmita Dasgupta, World BankThe Socioeconomics of Fish Consumption and Child Health in Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, World Bank; Md. Golam Mustafa, WorldFish bangladesh; Tapas Paul, World Bank;David Wheeler, World Resources InstituteDiscussant: Miguel Quiroga, Universidad de Concepcion

The Impact of Caligus Treatments on Unit Costs of Heterogeneous Salmon Farms in Chile

Miguel Quiroga, Universidad de Concepcion; Jorge Dresdner, Universidad de Concepción; Carlos Chavez,
Universidad de Talca
Discussant: Juan Rosas, University of Nottingham

Optimal Harvest Decisions under a Dynamic Context: Managing the Territorial Use Rights
Fisheries (TURFs) by Chilean artisanal organisations.
Juan Rosas, University of Nottingham
Discussant: Maxime Depalle, UC Davis

FOREST POLICIES: INSTRUMENTS AND EVIDENCE
Chair: Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, University of Toronto

Room: Haga: B210

Social Interactions in Landowners’ Voluntary Participation: Evidence from a Forest Incentive
Program
Hideki Shimada, Division of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto
University; Yohei Mitani, Division of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto
University

Discussant: Katharine Sims, Amherst College

Payments for environmental services supported social capital while increasing land
management

Katharine Sims, Amherst College; Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Oregon State University; Victor Orozco, WorldBank Development Impact Research Group; Laura Costica, World Bank Development Impact ResearchGroup; Sofia Romo Monroy, National Forestry Commission of Mexico; Jorge David Fernandez Medina,
National Forestry Commission of Mexico
Discussant: Jimena Rico-Straffon, Banco de Mexico

Deforestation Impacts of Conservation Development in the Peruvian Amazon: evaluatingland-use restrictions in combinations with rights to extraction

Jimena Rico-Straffon, Banco de Mexico; Stephanie Panlasigui, Duke University; Colby Loucks, World
Wildlife Fund; Jennifer Swenson, Duke University; Alexander Pfaff, Duke University
Discussant: Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, University of Toronto

The 'Priority List' and Optimal Environmental Targeting in the Amazon Rainforest

Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, University of Toronto; Robert McMillan, University of Toronto; Juliano
Assuncao, PUC-Rio; Joshua Murphy, Natural Resources Canada
Discussant: Hideki Shimada, Division of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture,
Kyoto University

GREEN CONSUMPTION

Chair: Nicolas Treich, Toulouse School of Economics

Room: Handels: B32

Where does the premium go? The heterogeneous distribution of a price premium for seafood
eco-labels
Lingxiao Yan, University of Delaware
Discussant: Sandra Schusser, Swedish Agricultural University

Green behavioural (in)consistencies: Are pro-environmental behaviours in different
domains substitutes or complements?
Göran Bostedt, SLU Umeå University; Sandra Schusser, Swedish Agricultural University
Discussant: Anja Köbrich, University of Kassel

Behavioral interdependencies in sustainable consumption - An empirical note for Germany
Anja Köbrich, University of Kassel; Andreas Ziegler, University of Kassel
Discussant: Nicolas Treich, Toulouse School of Economics

An economic model of the meat paradox

Nicolas Treich, Toulouse School of Economics; Nina Hestermann, TSE; Yves Le Yaouanq, LMU
Discussant: Lingxiao Yan, University of Delaware

INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

Chair: Michael Rauscher, Universitat Rostock

Room: Handels: D32

International Environmental Agreements as an Equilibrium Choice in a Differential Game

Ken-Ichi Akao, Waseda University; Kenko Uchida, Waseda University; Yasuaki Wasa, Waseda University

Discussant: Bard Harstad, Esop University Of Oslo

Pledge-and-Review Bargaining: From Kyoto to Paris
Bard Harstad, Esop University Of Oslo
Discussant: Sareh Vosooghi, University of Oxford

Information Design In Coalition Formation Games
Sareh Vosooghi, University of Oxford
Discussant: Michael Rauscher, Universitat Rostock

Economic Growth of Insiders and Outsiders of a Climate Agreement
Michael Rauscher, Universitat Rostock
Discussant: Ken-Ichi Akao, Waseda University

POLICY SESSION: ADDRESSING EMISSIONS UNCERTAINTYWITH A CARBON TAX: THREE DIFFERENT APPROACHES

Room: Handels: Volvo

Organizer(s): Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University
Chair: Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University

This policy session brings together leading economists to discuss, compare, and contrast various
approaches to add policy certainty over emission reductions to a carbon tax. The discussion builds on
three papers published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review by three of the policy session
participants.

The three papers in the law review symposium focus on the United States as a case study for thisimportant carbon tax design issue. Note, however, that political interest in adding emissions certainty
to a carbon tax extends beyond the U.S. Switzerland, for example, has in place a mechanism toincrease certainty about emission reductions in its carbon tax that is similar in nature to the approachdescribed by Metcalf and his co-authors.
In describing and evaluating a variety of these options, the symposium discussants will consider both
economic, administrative, and political considerations relevant for effective policy design as well as
the potential for the use of such a mechanism in different carbon tax systems around the world.
Ultimately, there is an unavoidable trade-off inherent in any carbon mitigation policy between
uncertainty about emissions and about mitigation costs. This policy session will make clear thatcarbon taxes can be designed to balance those tradeoffs and enhance policy predictability.
Panelist(s): Joe Aldy, Harvard University;
Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University;
Brian Murray, Duke University;
William Pizer, Duke University;
Christina Reichert, Duke University;
Nathaniel Keohane, Environmental Defense Fund

POLICY SESSION: MARINE PLASTIC POLLUTION IN A
CIRCULAR PERSPECTIVE

Room: Handels: Aulan

Organizer(s): Lena Gipperth, ; Kristina Jonäng, Chair of the Environmental committee, Region Västra
Götaland; Håkan Eggert, Univerity of Gothenburg
Chair: Lena Gipperth,This session is devoted to the ocean plastic pollution challenge. After a brief introduction of thebiophysical aspects of the problem, the panel will focus on various approaches towards solutions
both on the local as well as on the international level. How can we manage plastic waste at source,
eliminate unnecessary products, ensure that adequate waste management systems are in place andhow to clean up existing plastic pollution? These are some examples of issues to be discussed withroom for questions from the audience.
Moderators: Lena Gipperth and Håkan Eggert
Panelist(s): Bethanie Carney Almroth, Associated professor in Zoophysiology and Ecotoxicology;
Rashid Sumaila, Resource Economist, Professor, University of British Columbia. Volvo
Environment Prize winner 2017;
Joshua Abbott, Resource Economist, Associate Professor, Arizona State University;
Henrikke Baumann, Professor, Technology, Management and Economics, Chalmers
University of Technology;
Jakob Granit, Director General, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

THEMATIC SESSION: BABY YOU CAN DRIVE MY CAR:ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES FROM AUTOMOBILES

Room: Handels: E 44/GBJroom

Organizer(s): Anna Alberini, University of Maryland; Joshua Linn, Resources for the Future; Davide
Cerruti, ETH Zürich
Chair: Cristian Huse, Stockholm School of Economics

This session is comprised of four exciting and diverse papers about the externalities created bydriving. Two of them (Muehlenbachs et al., and Huse and Koptyug) seek to identify market failuresthat might be addressed by appropriate policies. Three of them evaluate policies that try to address
the market failures, and ask whether they fully internalize the societal costs or have unintended
consequences. If there is potential for such unintended consequences, would the proposed policies
still pass a benefit-cost test?
Common to all papers is the fact that they use empirical analyses, unique datasets, and creative
econometric approaches to estimate the exact extent of the externalities (e.g., the risk of accidents
created by an additional truck on the road in the Muehlenbachs et al. paper or by automakers
reducing the weight of vehicles in an effort to meet fuel economy regulations in the Bento et al.
paper).
Among other things, this session seeks to answer the much-debated question whether consumers
undervalue fuel economy, in that they fail to factor in the full lifetime fuel costs of owning a vehicle.

Pricing Car Externalities: Are UK Drivers Over- or Under-paying?

Davide Cerruti, ETH Zürich; Anna Alberini, University of Maryland; Joshua Linn, Resources for the
FutureThe Accident Externality from Trucking

Lucija Muehlenbachs, ; Stefan Staubli, University of Calgary; Jessica Chu, Resources for the Future

The Effects of Fuel Economy Standards on Vehicle Weight Dispersion and Accident Fatalities
Antonio Bento, University of Southern California; Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University School ofForestry and Environmental Studies

Salience and Policy Instruments: Evidence from the Auto Market

Cristian Huse, Stockholm School of Economics; Nikita Koptyug, Research Institute of Industrial
Economics

THEMATIC SESSION: COLLECTIVE INCENTIVES GROUPDYNAMICS FACING NATURAL RESOURCE DILEMMAS:EVIDENCE ON COLLECTIVE ACTION FROM LAB
EXPERIMENTS IN THE FIELD

Room: Handels: CG-room

Organizer(s): Alexander Pfaff, Duke University; María Alejandra Vélez, Universidad de los Andes
Chair: Alexander Pfaff, Duke University

Decision experiments can help consider potential institutional shifts in environmental and resource
management minus; in particular given limited data for comparing actual institutions minus; withtremendous control including randomization and with payoffs to mimic the incentives in actual policy
settings. When done in the field, with the populations of interest for potential institutional policychanges, this has greater relevance to actual management. We offer three natural-resource-dilemmaslab experiments with field populations in the developing world (Mexico; Colombia; Indonesia, Peru,
Tanzania) that test potential policy instruments for managing commons (forest, mining, fisheries).
Group dynamics are the common focus minus; including members ability to coordinate their efforts.
One considers collective incentives within a new local PES program in Mexico and, in particular, howsanctions to encourage up-/down-stream coordination interact with prior watershed trust. One
examines impacts of collective incentives in small-scale gold mining, in Colombia, to induce
compliance with an environmental policy target. It considers the effects of group composition on both
efficiency and distributional outcomes minus; which are also the focus of the third paper, also on PES
and forests, which considers the leadership roles of women in Peru, Tanzania and Indonesia.

Watershed Trust within Collective Institutions for Environmental Payments: downstreamupstream coordination and sanctioning in group experiments in Mexico

Alexander Pfaff, Duke University; Luz Rodriguez, Javeriana University; Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza, Duke
University

Collective Incentives for Cleaner Small-Scale Production on Developing Frontiers: rewarding
aggregate compliance in a lab experiment with artisanal gold miners in the Pacific region ofColombia
María Alejandra Vélez, Universidad de los Andes; Luz Rodriguez, Javeriana University; Alexander Pfaff,
Duke University

Gender Quotas Facilitate More Equal Benefit-Sharing in Collective PES Programs

Nathan Cook, University of Colorado at Boulder; Krister Andersson, University of Colorado -- Boulder

THEMATIC SESSION: DEVELOPING COUNTRY FOREST
POLICY IMPACT EVALUATION

Organizer(s): Allen Blackman, Inter-American Development Bank

Room: Handels: SKF

Chair: Allen Blackman, Inter-American Development Bank

A considerable literature examines the forest conservation and reforestation interventions indeveloping countries. However, as numerous recent literature reviews have pointed out, there is a
decided lack of rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental evidence on the effectiveness of thesepolicies. This thematic session features paper that help fill that gap. Each uses quasi-experimental
impact evaluation methods to analyze the effect of a forest policy intervention on forest cover change.
The session draws on the work of the Forest Collaborative within the Environment for Development(EfD) initiative. Founded in 2007, the EfD initiative is a consortium of environmental economics
research institutes in 12 developing and developed countries. The Forest Collaborative is a crosscenter research community of practice hosted by EfD.

Is Collective Titling Enough to Protect Forests? Evidence from Afro-descendants
Communities in the Colombian Pacific Region

Juan Robalino, Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza; María Alejandra Vélez,Universidad de los Andes; Juan Camilo Cardenas, Universidad de los Andes; Andrea Paz, City Universityof New York and Graduate Center; Eduardo Pacay, CATIE

Does Certification Change the Trajectory of Tree Cover in Working Forests in The Tropics?
An Application of the Synthetic Control Method of Impact Evaluation

Erin Sills, North Carolina State University; Pushpendra Rana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Net Effect of Concessions on Forest Loss: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Mexico

Allen Blackman, Inter-American Development Bank; Laura Villalobos, Inter-American Development
Bank

Explaining Long-term Outcome Trajectories in Social-ecological Systems

Pushpendra Rana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Daniel Miller, University of Illinois,Champaign-Urbana

THEMATIC SESSION: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY WITH
INFORMATION ACQUISITION

Room: Handels: E45

Organizer(s): Matti Liski, Aalto University School of Economics; Aurelie Slechten, Lancaster
University; Stefan Ambec, Toulouse School of Economics
Chair: Stefan Ambec, Toulouse School of Economics

Information aggregation and the efficiency of emissions markets
Aurelie Slechten, Lancaster University; Estelle Cantillon, ULB

The informational value of environmental taxes

Stefan Ambec, Toulouse School of Economics; Jessica Coria, University of Gothenburg

Global commons: a mechanism for footloose firms

Matti Liski, Aalto University School of Economics; Lassi Ahlvik, Norwegian School of Economics

THEMATIC SESSION: GREEN NUDGES AS POLICYINSTRUMENTS

Room: Handels: Malmsten

Organizer(s): Fredrik Carlsson, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Fredrik Carlsson, University of Gothenburg

There has been a growing interest in using behavioral insights to better understand individual
behavior and to design interventions that reduce the environmental effects of individual behavior. In
this session, the role of different behavioral interventions will be discussed. Two of the papers will
present results on specific interventions on energy conservation and waste. Two papers will take abroader perspective and discuss green nudges as a policy instrument.

Optimal prosocial nudging

Fredrik Carlsson, University of Gothenburg; Olof Johansson-Stenman, University of Gothenburg

Green Nudging as a Policy Instrument

Christina Gravert, University of Gothenburg; Fredrik Carlsson, University of Gothenburg; OlofJohansson-Stenman, University of Gothenburg; Verena Kurz, Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food

Breaking Habits

Daan van Soest, Tillburg University; Ben Vollard, Tillburg University

Information Provision for Residential Energy Conservation

Mark Andor, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research; Jörg Peters, RWI Essen; Andreas Gerster,
RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research; Christoph Schmidt, RWI - Leibniz-Institut fürWirtschaftsforschung

THEMATIC SESSION: INTEGRATED MODELS FOR NONPOINT
POLLUTION POLICY: OPTIMIZATION AND EVOLUTIONARY
ALGORITHM METHODS

Room: Handels: F45

Organizer(s): Moriah Bostian, Lewis Clark; Lyubov Kurkalova, North Carolina AT State University;
Bradley Barnhart, United States Environmental Protection Agency
Chair: Moriah Bostian, Lewis Clark

Bilevel Optimization of Conservation Practices for Agricultural Production

Moriah Bostian, Lewis Clark; Bradley Barnhart, United States Environmental Protection Agency; Lyubov
Kurkalova, North Carolina AT State University; Manoj Jha, North Carolina AT State University; Gerald
Whittaker, Oregon State University

Good Seeds Bear Good Fruit: Using Benefit-to-cost Ratios in Multiobjective Spatial
Optimization under Epistasis

Catherine Kling, Iowa State/Cornell University; Sergey Rabotyagov, University of Washington

THEMATIC SESSION: JOINT IMPACTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICIES ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMICPERFORMANCE
Organizer(s): Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics
Chair: Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics

Room: Handels: E43

Over the recent years, many studies have analysed the impact of environmental policies on economic
outcomes, such as productivity, trade and foreign investment. In comparison, the literature analysing
the impact of environmental policies jointly on economic and environmental performance is scarce.
Analysing the joint impacts of environmental policies is important because, from a policy perspective,
a desirable outcome is to achieve the greatest environmental benefits at the least possible economic
costs to the economy. Implementing environmental policies that have very limited economic
consequences on regulated firms cannot be considered as necessary successful if these policies in fact
bring about little environmental benefits. Currently, the empirical micro-evidence on firm behaviour,
firm responses and the combined economic and environmental effects of policies is largely missing,despite its crucial role in good policy design. The objective of this session is to showcase papers thathave embarked in this direction by merging data on both environmental and economic performanceat the micro level (i.e., firm- or facility-level). This session aims at paving the way for the integrated
assessment of the effects of green policies and their design features on multiple dimensions of
wellbeing economic and environmental, to create a supporting community of practice and showcase
the results from analyses that have successfully combined such datasets.

The Impact of Energy Prices on Employment and Environmental Performance: Evidence from
French Manufacturing Establishments
Giovanni Marin, University of Urbino 'Carlo Bo'; Francesco Vona, OFCE-Sciennces Po

Energy Prices and Manufacturing Plant Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence from Canada
Nicholas Rivers, University of Ottawa; Richard Morgenstern, Resources for the Future; Brett Dolter,
University of Regina

The joint impact of the EU ETS on carbon emissions and economic performance

Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics; Frank Venmans, University of Mons; Daniel
Nachtigall, OECD

Joint effects of environmental policies: A sector-level investigation

Balazs Stadler, OECD University of East Anglia; Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics

THEMATIC SESSION: SOLAR ENERGY

Organizer(s): Stefano Carattini, Yale University

Room: Handels: SEB

Chair: Stefano Carattini, Yale University

Tackling climate change requires a rapid diffusion of clean technologies and renewable energy. Thissession focuses on solar energy. In recent times, the adoption of solar energy has been, in many
countries, strongly subsidized. Several governments are, however, currently planning to phase out
subsidies for solar adoption. This session provides policy solutions for a post-subsidy (and, most
likely, pre-carbon pricing) world. These solutions focus on (1) the importance of supply-side market
conditions, such as competition among solar installers, for technology adoption; (2) the identificationof customer preferences for solar panels of different qualities, aesthetics, and prices; (3) the analysis
of information asymmetry and learning in the solar market.

Equilibrium Effects of Competition on Solar Photovoltaic Demand and Pricing
Bryan Bollinger, Duke University Fuqua School of Business; Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University School

of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Stefan Lamp, Toulouse School of Economics

Beauty and the budget: homeowners’ motives for adopting solar panels in a post-grid parity
world
Beatrice Petrovich, University of St. Gallen; Stefanie Lena Hille, DG CONNECT - Communications
Network, Content and Technology, European Commission; Rolf Wüstenhagen, University of St. Gallen

The evolution of spatial spillovers in the diffusion of domestic solar photovoltaic panels

Marta Talevi, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political
Science

Social interactions and the adoption of solar PV: Evidence from cultural borders

Stefano Carattini, Yale University; Andrea Baranzini, Haute école de gestion Genève; Martin Péclat,
University of Neuchâtel

TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT

Room: Handels: F44

Chair: Tobias Udsholt, OECD

Boon or Bane? Trade Sanctions and the Stability of International Environmental Agreements
Achim Hagen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Jan Schneider, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
Discussant: Alaa Al Khourdajie, University of Edinburgh

Issue Linkage between Climate Change and Customs' Union Agreements under Consumers'
Taste for Variety
Alaa Al Khourdajie, University of Edinburgh
Discussant: Christoph Boehringer, University of Oldenburg

Paris after Trump: An Inconvenient Insight

Christoph Boehringer, University of Oldenburg; Thomas Rutherford, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant: Tobias Udsholt, OECD

Carbon Pricing, Coastal Proximity and Plant Survival: Evidence from the European Cement
SectorTobias Udsholt, OECD; Misato Sato, London School of Economics
Discussant: Jan Schneider, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

VALUATION: HEDONIC PRICING

Chair: Jessica Martin, Earth Economics

Room: Handels: B33

Recovering Economic Values of Product Attributes via Equilibrium Price Analysis ofDifferentiated Product: Hedonic Method under Imperfect Competition

Ju-Chin Huang, University of New Hampshire; Min Qiang Zhao, Xiamen University; Laura Beaudin,
Bryant University
Discussant: Zhaoyang Liu, Peking University

Hedonic Value of the Area of Urban Green Amenities: The Case of Beijing

Zhaoyang Liu, Peking University; Heqing Huang, Peking University; Juha Siikamäki, International Union

for Conservation of Nature; Jintao Xu, Peking University
Discussant: Timothy Hamilton, University of RichmondUsing Machine Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Visual Amenity Values
Timothy Hamilton, University of Richmond; Erik Johnson, University of Alabama
Discussant: Jessica Martin, Earth Economics

Get the Lead Out: A Hedonic Housing Price Analysis of Soil Contamination and Remediationin Washington State
Jessica Martin, Earth Economics; Toni Sipic, Central Washington University
Discussant: Ju-Chin Huang, University of New HampshireCoffee break

Tuesday, 10.15-10.45

Opening ceremony

Tuesday, 10.45-11.15

Plenary session

Tuesday, 11.15-12.15

PLENARY

Room: Handels / Haga

Room: Smyrna

Lata Gangadharan presents Compliance in Social Dilemmas: Insights from Experiments

Room: Smyrna

Chair: Fredrik Carlsson
Even the best designed environmental regulation can be ineffective in the absence of adequate
enforcement. Improving compliance with regulations, hence continues to be a core focus ofenvironmental policy making. This is particularly so in situations where tensions between private andsocial interests give rise to social dilemmas. Using economic experiments, we first examine how limited
enforcement resources can be more effectively leveraged to achieve compliance, by using regulatory
audit tournaments and newly emerging social information schemes. Next, we explore regulatorycompliance in social dilemmas with and without an agency risk. Agents unobservable effort choices cancreate a negative externality as they may not take appropriate preventative actions. Our researchsuggests that well designed regulatory schemes and wage contracts can improve compliance anddiminish the social dilemma problem. Schemes based on social pressure and reciprocity, on the other
hand, provide limited benefits.

Lunch

MEETINGSEAERE - Country representatives meeting* (Room: C33)
EAAERE Board meeting* (Room: C31)
AERE Board meeting* (Room: C35)
* Invitation only

Tuesday, 12.15-13.45
Room: Handels

Parallell sessions 2
Tuesday June 26, 13.45-15.30

Parallel session 2

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Tuesday, 13.45-15.30

Chair: Herbert Ntuli, University of Cape Town

Room: Handels: B22

Collective Punishment and Endogenous Social Norms

Simon Fan, Lingnan University; Yu Pang, Macau University of Science and Technology
Discussant: Karine Nyborg, University of Oslo

The Good, the Bad, and the Conditional: Sustaining Cooperation through Self-Sorting

Karine Nyborg, University of Oslo; Karen Hauge, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research; Kjell
Arne Brekke, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research; Jo Thori Lind, Department of Economics,
University of Oslo
Discussant: Jetske Bouma, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)

Analysing group contract design using a lab and a lab-in the field threshold public goodexperimentJetske Bouma, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL); Binh Thanh Nguyen, Tilburg
University; Eline van der Heijden, Department of Economics, Tilburg University; Justin Dijk, Institute forEnvironmental Studies, VU University
Discussant: Herbert Ntuli, University of Cape Town

An examination of Factors affecting the level of collective action using framed field
experiments

Herbert Ntuli, University of Cape Town; Edwin Muchapondwa, University of Cape Town; Anne-Sophie
Crepin, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics
Discussant: Simon Fan, Lingnan University

BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEMS SERVICES: THE AGRIENVIRONMENT NEXUS

Room: Handels: F43

Chair: Katrina Mullan, University of Montana

Green Public Procurement: An empirical analysis of the effect of organic food policy on
farmland.

Hanna Lindström, Umeå University; Sofia Lundberg, Umeå University; Pelle Marklund, The National
Institute of Economic Research (NIER)
Discussant: Eric Strobl, University of Bern

THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CRITICAL HABITAT DESIGNATION: EVIDENCE FROM VACANT
LAND TRANSACTIONS
Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley (ARE); David Sunding, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Katrina Mullan, University of Montana

Forest Watershed Services on an Old Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon

Katrina Mullan, University of Montana; Yu Wu, North Carolina State University; Erin Sills, North
Carolina State University; Jill Caviglia-Harris, Salisbury University; Daniel Harris, Salisbury University;
Trent Biggs, San Diego State University

Discussant: Hanna Lindström, Umeå University

Biodiversity and Economic Land Use

Eric Strobl, University of Bern; Matthew Cole, University of Birmingham; Robert Elliott, University ofBirmingham
Discussant: Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley (ARE)

CLIMATE CHANGE: POLICY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
Chair: Karl Zimmermann, Universidad Anahuac Mexico

Room: Handels: C22

Emission price, output-based allocation and consumption tax: Optimal climate policy in thepresence of another climate policy
Kevin R. Kaushal, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Discussant: Ashwin Rode, University of Chicago, Dept. of Economics

The Social Cost of Lobbying over Climate Policy

Kyle Meng, ; Ashwin Rode, University of Chicago, Dept. of Economics
Discussant: Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg University

Rent seeking in climate policy

Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg University; Matti Liski, Aalto University School of Economics
Discussant: Karl Zimmermann, Universidad Anahuac Mexico

A Chain is only as strong as its weakest Link

Hendrik Ritter, Faculty of Economics and Management, Otto–von–Guericke University Magdeburg; Karl
Zimmermann, Universidad Anahuac Mexico
Discussant: Kevin R. Kaushal, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN CHINA

Chair: Hasnisah Azilah, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu

Room: Handels: C33

Carbon emission trading scheme and energy transition: The Case of China local pilots

Akihisa MORI, Kyoto University; Xiang LIAO, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto
University, Japan
Discussant: Junling Liu, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen InstituteUrbanization Process and Its Implications for the roadmap of China’s Mid-Century Low
Carbon Strategy
Junling Liu, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen InstituteDiscussant: Xiaoli Zhang, Renmin University of China

Study on medium and long-term low carbon development pathway of China’s power sector
Xiaoli Zhang, Renmin University of China; Xueqin Cui, Renmin University of China
Discussant: Hasnisah Azilah, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu

Environmental quality, renewable energy and economic development: Evidence from a panelof ASEAN countries

Hasnisah Azilah, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu; Azlina A.A, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu; Che
Mohd Imran Che Taib, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
Discussant: Akihisa MORI, Kyoto University

ENERGY: BEHAVIOR

Chair: Cheng Xu, George Washington University

Room: Handels: B23

How Cognitive Biases Affect Energy Savings in Low Energy Buildings

Lucie Martin-Bonnel de Longchamp, BETA, University of Strasbourg; Nicolas Lampach, KU Leuven
Faculty of Law, Centre for Legal Theory and Empirical Jurisprudence
Discussant: Enni Ruokamo, University of Oulu

TOWARDS FLEXIBLE ENERGY DEMAND – PREFERENCES FOR DYNAMIC CONTRACTS,SERVICES AND EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS

Enni Ruokamo, University of Oulu; Teemu Meriläinen, University of Oulu; Rauli Svento, University ofOulu; Maria Kopsakangas-Savolainen, Finnish Environment InstituteDiscussant: Alberto Salvo, National University of Singapore

Local Pollution Drives Global Pollution: Emissions Feedback via Residential Electricity Usage
Alberto Salvo, National University of Singapore
Discussant: Cheng Xu, George Washington University

Do Chinese Drivers Respond to Gasoline Price Changes?

Cheng Xu, George Washington University
Discussant: Lucie Martin-Bonnel de Longchamp, BETA, University of Strasbourg

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Chair: Olli-Pekka Kuusela, Oregon State University

Room: Haga: B225

Optimal Policy and network effects for the deployment of zero emission vehicles
Guy Meunier, INRA; Jean-Pierre Ponssard, CNRS
Discussant: Maria Chistyakova, CEE-M

Environmental regulation with price signaling

Maria Chistyakova, CEE-M
Discussant: Oliver Tietjen, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Carbon Pricing in Electricity Markets Under Uncertainty – The Impact of Risk Aversion and
Futures Markets
Oliver Tietjen, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Kai Lessmann, Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research; Michael Pahle, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Discussant: Olli-Pekka Kuusela, Oregon State University

Prices vs. Quantities vs. Commitment with Banking

Olli-Pekka Kuusela, Oregon State University; Jussi Lintunen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Discussant: Guy Meunier, INRAENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: REGULATION
Chair: Alistair Munro, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

Room: Handels: D33

Discretionary Exemptions: Regulatory Flexibility for Good or for Ill

Dietrich Earnhart, University of Kansas; Sarah Jacobson, Williams College; Yusuke Kuwayama, ; Richard
Woodward, Texas AM University
Discussant: Rémi Morin Chassé, University of Prince Edward Island

On Environmental Accidents with a Judgment-Proof firm

Chuck Mason, University of Wyoming; Rémi Morin Chassé, University of Prince Edward Island
Discussant: Jessica Coria, University of Gothenburg

Fiscal Federalism and Interjurisdictional Externalities: The case of Air Quality Regulations in
SwedenJessica Coria, University of Gothenburg; Magnus Hennlock, IVL Swedish Environmental ResearchInstitute; Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Alistair Munro, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

Little Green Lies: Optimal environmental regulation with partially verifiable information
Alistair Munro, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Discussant: Richard Woodward, Texas AM University

FOSSIL FUELS: IMPACT

Chair: Meagan McCollum, Baruch College, City University of New York

Room: Handels: C24

Price Elasticity of Gasoline Smuggling: a Semi-Structural Estimation Approach

Hamed Ghoddusi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Rafizadeh Nima, Sharif University of Technology;
Rahmati Mohamad Hossein, Sharif University of Technology
Discussant: Jason Brown, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Effects of State Taxation on Investment: Evidence from the Oil Industry

Jason Brown, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City; Peter Maniloff, Colorado School of Mines; Dale
Manning, Colorado State University
Discussant: Thais Nunez Rocha, University of Orleans

Trade in fuels and environmental regulation: a two sided story

Thais Nunez Rocha, University of Orleans; Camelia Turcu, University of Orleans
Discussant: Meagan McCollum, Baruch College, City University of New York

Firm Dynamics and Local Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Shale Oil and Gas Boom

Meagan McCollum, Baruch College, City University of New York; Ryan Decker, Federal Reserve Board;
Greg Upton, Louisiana State University
Discussant: Hamed Ghoddusi, Stevens Institute of Technology

GREEN CONSUMPTION

Chair: Jorge Araña, Univerity of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Room: Handels: B32

Does a market with green goods voluntarily internalize externalities? Evidence from a lab
experiment
Maria Eduarda Fernandes, CARME, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria; Marieta Valente, NIPE and EEG,
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Discussant: Sophie Bernard, Polytechnique Montréal

Multidimentional Green Product Design and Environmental Policies
Sophie Bernard, Polytechnique Montréal
Discussant: Sebastien Houde, ETH Zurich

The Incidence of Coarse Certification: Evidence from the ENERGY STAR Program
Sebastien Houde, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Jorge Araña, Univerity of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Do Experts Match Consumer’ Preferences for Corporate Social Responsibility?

Jorge Araña, Univerity of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Carmelo Leon, University of Las Palmas
Discussant: Maria Eduarda Fernandes, CARME, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

POLICY SESSION: ENERGY POLICY AND CLIMATE GOALS IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: WHICH WAY FORWARD?

Room: Handels: Aulan

Organizer(s): Anna Creti, Université Paris Dauphine, Climate Economics Chair and Chaire Energie etProspérité; Philippe Delacote, INRA
Chair: Anna Creti, Université Paris Dauphine, Climate Economics Chair and Chaire Energie etProspérité

One of the future challenges in Africa is to grant widespread access to electricity. The results of a logit
analysis conducted on two different samples of customers having subscribed a pay-as-you go
contracts to get a solar kit or a solar panel with a battery are detailed. The impact of socio-economic
characteristics on the adoption of such services is analyzed. Whether the convergence of mobile
telephony, micro-finance and electricity can accelerate is discussed.
Panelist(s): Anna Creti, Université Paris Dauphine, Climate Economics Chair and Chaire Energie etProspérité;Frank Convery, University College Dublin;
Philippe Delacote, INRA;
Jörg Peters, RWI Essen;
Michael Toman, World Bank;
Frederick van der Ploeg, Dep. of Economics, University of Oxford

POLICY SESSION: FUTURE TRANSPORT IN A CLIMATENEUTRAL WORLD: KNOWLEDGE GAPS AND NEEDEDPOLICIES

Room: Handels E44/GBJ room

Organizer(s): Lars Zetterberg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Chair: Lars Zetterberg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

A future with net zero greenhouse gas emissions poses a joint challenge for policy makers and thetransport and car industry. The transport system is currently witnessing several emerging trends that
may either help or hinder the transition to zero CO2 emissions. Electrified vehicles are already taking

a larger share of new vehicle registrations, while car sharing is on the rise in some urban areas.
Looking ahead, automation is pointed out as the next big transport revolution. These three trends
give rise to opportunities that may steer the transport system towards a higher degree of energy
efficiency and a reduction of congestion if potential synergies are exploited. However, they also imply
many challenges since the marginal cost of transporting goods and people may be significantly
reduced leading to an enhanced demand for transport and increasing problems with urban sprawl,
congestion and energy use. These new challenges and opportunities need to be better understoodfrom an economic and behavioral perspective so that business models and policy strategies can be
designed in a way that make use of the opportunities and avoid the major potential problems.

Panelist(s): Lars Zetterberg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute;Daniel Johansson, Chalmers;
Frances Sprei, Associate Professor, Physical Resource Theory Chalmers;
Niklas Gustafsson, Chief Sustainability Officer, Head of Sustainability Public Affairs at
Volvo Group, AB Volvo;
Axel Edh, Senior Strategic Advisor Environment, Volvo Cars;
Malin Andersson, Head of Department – Development and International Affairs, Uran
Transport Administration, City of Gothenburg

POLICY SESSION: POLICY SYNERGIES AND POLICY-MAKING:THE CASE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Room: Handels: SEB

Organizer(s): Mikael Karlsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Thomas Sterner,
University of Gothenburg
Chair: Mikael Karlsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Despite consensus on the need for stringent policy instruments to achieve climate targets, proposals
tend to be watered down. One reason is a strong attention given to mitigation costs, whereas cobenefits of climate measures are often left outside the analysis. An obvious such co-benefit isimproved air quality from fossil fuel phase-out. This kind of synergy, when a climate policy measurecreates benefits in another area, can be called a Type 1-synergy. There are also examples of how
measures in other policy areas lead to reduced greenhouse gas emissions, i.e. a Type 2-synergy. With
notable exceptions, climate policy synergies are sparsely researched, in particular Type 2-synergies,
as well as the issue of how synergies are considered or not in policy-making.
This session aims to highlight the significance of policy synergies and the importance of considering
them in policy-making on climate change. The links between policies on climate and resource
efficiency, as well as the co-benefits of climate policy at large and in specific areas will be presented,
together with the results of an on-going major research review in the field. Based on this background,a stakeholder discussion will take place, with the intention to identify measures on how to better reap
the fruits of climate policy synergies.
Panelist(s): Janez Potocnik, UNEP International Resource Panel - IRP;
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Dep Environmental Sciences and Policy Central European University;
Eva Alfredsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology;
Nils Westling, KTH Royal Institute of Technology;

Theory.

Fredrik Hedenus, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Physical Resource

RENEWABLE ENERGY: CONSTRAINTS AND IMPACTS
Chair: Alexander Zerrahn, DIW Berlin

Room: Haga: Dragonen

Electricity Taxation and Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from Renewable Energy Financing
Stefan Lamp, Toulouse School of Economics; Andreas Gerster, RWI - Leibnitz-Institute for Economic
Research
Discussant: Jacob LaRiviere, Microsoft

Transmission Constraints, Intermittent Renewables and Welfare

Jacob LaRiviere, Microsoft; Xueying Lu, University of California, San Diego
Discussant: chiara Colesanti senni, ETH Zürich

Energy Transition, Technological Spillovers and the Elasticity of Substitution
chiara Colesanti senni, ETH Zürich
Discussant: Alexander Zerrahn, DIW Berlin

On the economics of electrical storage for variable renewable energy

Alexander Zerrahn, DIW Berlin; Wolf-Peter Schill, DIW Berlin; Claudia Kemfert, DIW Berlin / German
Advisory Council on Environment / Hertie School of GovernanceDiscussant: Stefan Lamp, Toulouse School of Economics

RESOURCES: THEORY

Chair: Ruben Bibas, OECD

Room: Haga: B210

Can Intragenerational and Intergenerational Equity be Reconciled with Renewable
Resources?

Stellio Del Campo, University Paris Nanterre (Economix) and University Paris-Saclay (Économie
Pubique)
Discussant: Justin Johnson Kakeu Kengne, Morehouse College

Concerns for Long-Run Risks and Natural Resource Policy

Justin Johnson Kakeu Kengne, Morehouse College
Discussant: Christopher Costello, University of California, Santa Barbara

Transboundary Marine Protected Areas

Christopher Costello, University of California, Santa Barbara; Renato Molina, UC Santa Barbara
Discussant: Ruben Bibas, OECD

The economic drivers of materials use to 2060: a global outlook

Ruben Bibas, OECD; Jean Chateau, OECD; Rob Dellink, OECD; Elisa Lanzi, OECD
Discussant: Stellio Del Campo, University Paris Nanterre (Economix) and University Paris-Saclay(Économie Pubique)

THEMATIC SESSION: CAN YOU TEACH OLD ELECTRICITY
MARKETS NEW TRICKS IN A RENEWABLE FUTURE?

Room: Handels: E43

Organizer(s): Lisa Ryan, University College Dublin
Chair: Lisa Ryan, University College Dublin

The ways in which we generate, sell, deliver, and use electricity are changing at all scales, and withtremendous economic implications for all involved. Driving change at every level is the shift toward
wide-scale decarbonisation through higher shares of variable renewables, decentralisation ofelectricity supply, electrification of heat and transport, energy efficiency improvements, and theunbundling of utilities, requiring new electricity market arrangements. At the heart of thistransformation lies the fundamental question of how to structure a market framework that is alignedwith a decarbonised future. Which structures should be adapted, which discarded, and which new
functions must be performed to enable a world increasingly powered by renewables? The session
explores the economic research on this salient and complex societal challenge that will only grow inimportance in coming years.
Envisioning future markets raises interesting theoretical and empirical questions for economists that
require methodological approaches from a range of perspectives. On the supply side, the historical
underlying premise in wholesale electricity markets by which prices equal marginal costs begins tounravel with higher shares of renewables participating with zero fuel costs. How, then, should
generation be valued, priced, and dispatched, as the cost of generation is weighted more heavily
toward infrastructure assets and away from energy commodities? Likewise, conventional operationof networks on the basis of synchronous generation is giving way to more intermittent and variable
renewable sources, which requires a recalibration of incentives to assure sufficient flexibility andcapacity. Here, a system designed solely to allocate supply must now incorporate mechanisms thatencourage efficient participation by end-use customers. Another notable shift on the demand side is
the increasing instance of distributed generation. These agents reduce their consumption of gridprovided electricity and may even supply back to the grid, reducing revenue for energy suppliers andgrid operators. How should retail tariffs be designed to facilitate the efficient level of distributed
generation? Solutions like minimum bills or ”all-you-can-eat” tariffs can help to ensure utilities areable to cover fixed costs, but they also degrade consumer incentives to engage in energy efficiency,
demand response, and even distributed generation, and are thus contrary to a vision of
decarbonisation.
This thematic academic session presents high-quality research on these challenging and complex
questions, while keeping sight of the broader objective of decarbonisation. The first paper by Neuhoff
et al. analyses how market design can deliver more efficient integration of renewables into markets.
They propose a market value model to reduce financial risks for project developers and minimise
costs for the integration of renewables to the electricity system. In the second paper, Ryan et al.
consider the retail market and how retail electricity tariff structures can help to mitigate CO2
emissions and improve energy efficiency and renewable energy penetration. They demonstrate thepotential misalignment of price signals to achieve environmental objectives with electricity gridsecurity requirements and propose some retail tariff recommendations. Following on, Skytte et al
analyse the network side of electricity supply and compare different grid tariff and electricity tax
structures using a high renewable penetration case study, and demonstrate how such mechanisms
facilitate flexible demand whilst improving the value of renewable generation. Finally, Kåberger
shows how competitive markets with the right economic incentives can ensure balanced electricity
markets.
With a selection of high quality scientific research on the issues of wholesale markets, financial
planning, retail tariff structures, and grid tariffs in a future low-carbon, high renewables world, thissession provides a 360-degree view of key challenges and analytical methods in future electricity

markets. The related policy session Smart grid for a carbon free energy future: the role of electricity
pricing and distributed energy resources will provide a policy discussion on many interrelating issues
and will serve as a complement to this more academic session.

Incentives for the long-term integration of renewable energies: a plea for a market value
model
Karsten Neuhoff, DIW Berlin; Nils May, DIW Berlin; Joern Richstein, DIW Berlin

Harnessing electricity retail tariffs to support climate change policy

Lisa Ryan, University College Dublin; Sarah La Monaca, UCD; Linda Mastrandrea, UCD; Petr Spodniak,
Economic and Social Research InstituteElectricty grid tariffs that enable flexible and environmental freindly coupling of electricity
and heat markets
Klaus Skytte, DTU Management Engineering; Claire Bergaentzle, DTU; Ole Jess Olsen, DUT

Capacity and the importance of simple, basic regulation of power markets with competition
Tomas Kåberger,

THEMATIC SESSION: FINANCING ENERGY INNOVATION:
WHAT WORKS AND REDIRECTS?

Room: Handels: F45

Organizer(s): Jacquelyn Pless, University of Oxford
Chair: Jacquelyn Pless, University of Oxford

Identifying and overcoming barriers to clean energy innovation will be critical for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions, meeting future energy needs, and transitioning to clean energy systems
globally. Several dozen countries have committed to double public research and development(Ramp;D) spending on clean energy innovation by 2021 through ”Mission Innovation”. However,increased spending does not necessarily translate into successful outcomes. Equally important isspending such resources wisely, yet there is remarkably insufficient evidence in the literature so far
about what works and why when it comes to driving clean energy innovation.
This session brings together cutting-edge empirical research on energy innovation, with a particularfocus on the economic motivations for increasing public support for clean energy Ramp;D and how
such funding impacts innovation outcomes. The session will begin with an examination of knowledge
spillovers that accrue from clean and dirty technology innovations. It will then explore financing
constraints faced by small renewable energy firms, which impede innovative activity, and it will
wrap-up with analyses of how Ramp;D funding mechanisms impact firm behaviour and innovation
outcomes.

Knowledge Spillovers from Clean and Dirty Technologies: A Patent Citation Analysis

Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics; Ralf Martin, Imperial College London; Myra
Mohnen, University of Essex

Financing Energy Innovation: Financing Constraints and Directed Technical Change from
Fossil-Fuel to Renewable Innovation

Joelle Noailly, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Roger Smeets, Rutgers
University

Do Tax Incentives for Research Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for RD

Ralf Martin, Imperial College London; Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics; Elias Einiö,
VATT Institute for Economic Research; Kieu-Trang Nguyen, London School of Economics; John Van
Reenen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Are 'Complementary Policies' Substitutes? Evidence from RD Subsidies in the UK
Jacquelyn Pless, University of Oxford

THEMATIC SESSION: INEQUALITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT:MEASUREMENT, VALUATION AND POLICY

Room: Handels: SKF

Organizer(s): Moritz Drupp, University of Hamburg; Ben Groom, London School of Economics
Chair: Moritz Drupp, University of Hamburg

In the 21st century, (environmental) economics faces two mega-challenges: On the one hand, the lossof environmental goods and services is widespread and accelerating, while, on the other hand,concerns about economic inequalities become more prevalent in science, policy and society. These
two challenges are inter-related: Economic inequality may influence environmental valuation andpolicy, while environmental policy may affect economic inequality in turn. The proposed thematic
session will deal with this inter-relationship by addressing a number of key questions: (i) How does
the distribution of income within a society affect environmental valuation? (ii) What is the extent ofinequality aversion concerning the distribution of economic resources as well as environmental
quality? (iii) How are benefits of (non-market) environmental goods distributed? (iv) How are costsof environmental regulation distributed? (v) How are carbon emissions distributed and what does
this imply for equitable climate finance? The session will provide a selected overview on the topic of
how inequality and the environment are connected and will aim to stimulate a broader discussion. As
such, the session may help participants to gain a better understanding of how inequality andenvironmental policy are connected and to identify knowledge gaps and promising opportunities for
future research.
Panelist(s): Lucas Chancel,

Who Bears the Economic Costs of Environmental Regulations?

Don Fullerton, University of Illinois; Erich Muehlegger, University of California - Davis

Economic Inequality and the Value of Nature

Jasper Meya, University of Oldenburg; Stefan Baumgärtner, University of Freiburg; Martin Quaas,
University of Kiel; Moritz Drupp, University of Hamburg

Inequality Aversion and the Environment

Ben Groom, London School of Economics; Frank Venmans, University of Mons

Carbon and inequality: From Kyoto to Paris. Trends in the global inequality of carbon
emissions (1998-2013) prospects for an equitable adaptation fundLucas Chancel, ; Thomas Piketty,

THEMATIC SESSION: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESSAND THE DESIGN OF CLIMATE POLICY

Room: Handels: Malmsten

Organizer(s): Raymond Kopp, Resources for the Future
Chair: Raymond Kopp, Resources for the Future

The Paris Agreement was adopted on December 2015. The Agreement signals a new era forinternational collaboration and cooperation on climate change, with a focus on nationally-determined
contributions of emissions mitigation. These voluntary pledges and their associated domestic
implementation programs may result in heterogeneous emission mitigation costs both acrosscountries and across industries within countries. For trade-exposed industries, the heterogeneity inabatement costs evident in differential energy price impacts, for example may result incompetitiveness effects: firms in high regulatory-cost countries may lose market share to firms in low
regulatory-cost countries, and these may consider relocating production activities to the lower
regulatory cost markets. Such adverse competitiveness effects undermine international climate policyby increasing the costs of ambitious domestic climate policy action and decreasing the environmental
benefits of such action due to emission leakage. This session will review both econometric andsimulation evidence on the competitiveness impacts of alternative implementations of NDCs, withparticular attention to how carbon pricing versus non-carbon pricing policies may have differential
effects on leakage and competitiveness.

Evaluations on emission reduction efforts of NDCs and their economic impacts by sector

Keigo Akimoto, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE); Takashi Homma,
Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE); Fuminori Sano, Research Institute of
Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE); Bianka Shoai-Tehrani, Research Institute of Innovative
Technology for the Earth (RITE)

The economic implications of Nationally Determined Contributions: a global analysis on
growth and competitivenessFrancesco Bosello, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan and EuroMediterranean Center on Climate Change; Carlo Carraro, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, EuroMediterranean Center on Climate Change and University of Venice; Ramiro Parrado, Euro-Mediterranean
Center on Climate Change and University of Venice Ca’ Foscari

Evaluating the Competitiveness Effects of Global Climate Change Policy
Joe Aldy, Harvard University; William Pizer, Duke University

THEMATIC SESSION: NEW ECONOMIC RESEARCHSUPPORTING POLICIES FOR COMBATING EUTROPHICATIONIN INTERNATIONAL WATERS

Room: Handels: E45

Organizer(s): Berit Hasler, Aarhus University; Ing-Marie Gren, Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences; Kari Hyytianen, University of Helsinki; Katarina Elofsson, Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences
Chair: Berit Hasler, Aarhus University

EU Directives (the water framework directive (WFD) and the marine strategy framework directive(MFSD)) require nutrient load reductions to achieve good ecological status of the coastal and open
marine areas surrounding the EU member states. Similarly, policies are established to reduce nutrient
loads in the US and in other parts of the world. The Baltic Sea, surrounded by 9 countries, is an
example of a common, international sea area where there have been observable successes in reducing

the nutrient inflows to the Sea in line with international commitments (HELCOM, 2013), but thetargets have not been met and the efforts of the surrounding countries have been largely unilateraland insufficiently coordinated. Existing policies are shown to be unnecessarily expensive in relation
to the nutrient reductions achieved. Further reductions can be even more costly to reach, andsocioeconomic development and climate change might make it even harder to achieve good
ecological status of international sea areas, such as the Baltic Sea. There is a need for an improved
design of policy instruments and institutions to ensure that the nutrient load reduction targets aremet, and to achieve that there is a strong need for science-based knowledge on the role that thedesign of policy instruments and institutions plays for environmental, economic and social outcomesof policies for nutrient reductions. This thematic session addresses the challenges and possibilities
for more stringent and effective nutrient abatement for an international sea area.

The ex-post cost-effectiveness of nitrogen load reductions from nine countries to the Baltic
Sea between 1996 and 2010

Tobias Häggmark, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Katarina Elofsson, Swedish University ofAgricultural Sciences

Stacking of pollutant abatement credits for cost-effective achievement of climate and watertargets in the Baltic Sea region

Ing-Marie Gren, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Frederic Ang, SLU; Sara Säll, SLU; Abenezer
Zeleke, SLU

Assessing the benefits and the efforts of reaching a good environmental status in the Baltic
Sea under changing climate and society

Tuija Lankia, Natural Resources Institute Finland, LUKE; Sampo Pihlanen, Helsinki University; Matti
Sihvonen, University of Helsinki; Eija Pouta, Natural Resources Institute Finland, LUKE; Kari Hyytianen,
University of Helsinki; Heini Ahtiainen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke); Barbara Bauer,
Stokcholm University; Markus Meier, SMHI; Christine Bertram, IfW Kiel; Marianne Zandersen, Aarhus
University; Bo Gustafsson, Stockholm university; Mikołaj Czajkowski, University of Warsaw; Eva Ehrsten,
Stockholm University; Jürgen Meyerhoff, TU Berlin; Alf Norkko, Helsinki University; Kristine Pakalniete,
AktiiVS Ltd; Katrin Rehdanz, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Sofia Saraiva, SMHI; Maciej Tomczak,
Stockholm University; Ioannis Angelidis, Aarhus University

Cross country comparison of AES schemes as incentives for nutrient abatement in Baltic Sea
catchments - exploring farmers’ preferences
Berit Hasler, Aarhus University; Mikołaj Czajkowski, University of Warsaw; Katarina Elofsson, Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences; Line Block Hansen, Aarhus University; Tobias Häggmark, Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences; Maria Konrad, Aarhus University; Helle Ørsted Nielsen, Aarhus
University; Olli Niskanen, LUKE; Anders Branth Pedersen, Aarhus Univesity; Kaja Petserson, Stockholm
Environmental Institute, Estonia; Katarzyna Zagórska, University of Warsaw, Department of Economics

THEMATIC SESSION: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CLIMATEPOLICY: THE NEW ECONOMICS OF COAL

Room: Handels: Volvo

Organizer(s): Roman Mendelevitch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Franziska Holz, German Institutefor Economic Research (DIW Berlin); Michael Jakob, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commonsand Climate Change; Pao-Yu Oei, TU Berlin
Chair: Roman Mendelevitch, Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinFrom a Western perspective, an increasing number of countries are embarking on a coal phase-out
path following various rationales. They can obviously be related to environmental and climate
concerns, but just as much to the increasing cost competitiveness and flexibility of renewables
systems or the competition with shale gas that deteriorates the economics of coal electrification in
more and more countries. At the same time, the increasing energy demand in developing andemerging economies, e.g. in South-East Asia and Africa, has been a constant driver of coal-fired power
plant capacities.
In this context, this proposed session aims to make a contribution to understanding this seeming
contradiction with fresh research on the new economics of coal. Characterizing the multitude andinterrelatedness of (inter-)national political economy and climate policy drivers and barriers
presents a major step towards the design of feasible and efficient policies to achieve international
climate targets.
To this end, this session examines the dichotomy towards coal by presenting individual country cases
studies, as well as a more general discussion on a political economy framework of to rationalize coalinvestments. Moreover, it addressed the issue of potentially stranded coal infrastructure assets andtheir role as inertia that governments need to take into account when designing transition policies.

The political economy of climate policy: A Theoretical Framework
Jan Steckel, MCC Berlin; Michael Jakob, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate
Change; Christian Flachsland, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change(MCC)

Coal Phase-Out Implications for the International Steam Coal Market: The Risk of Asset
Stranding in the COALMOD-World Model

Roman Mendelevitch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Franziska Holz, German Institute for Economic
Research (DIW Berlin); Oliver Sartor, IDDRI; Tim Scherwarth, German Institute for Economic Research(DIW Berlin); Ivo Kafemann, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin); Thomas Spencer,
IDDRI

Black Diamond or Black Death: The United Kingdom’s, Germany’s and Poland’s diverging
transition pathways towards a future without coal consumption
Pao-Yu Oei, TU Berlin; Hanna Brauers, TU Berlin

More Gas, Less Coal, and Less CO2? Unilateral CO2 Reduction Policy with More than One
Carbon Energy Source

Julien Daubanes, University of Copenhagen; Fanny Henriet, PSE-CNRS; Katheline Schubert, University of
Paris

THEMATIC SESSION: USING NOVEL, GRANULAR DATA IN
ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

Room: Handels: CG room

Organizer(s): Jeremy Proville, Environmental Defense Fund
Chair: Jeremy Proville, Environmental Defense Fund

Identifying and overcoming barriers to clean energy innovation will be critical for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions, meeting future energy needs, and transitioning to clean energy systems

globally. Several dozen countries have committed to double public research and development(Ramp;D) spending on clean energy innovation by 2021 through ”Mission Innovation”. However,increased spending does not necessarily translate into successful outcomes. Equally important isspending such resources wisely, yet there is remarkably insufficient evidence in the literature so far
about what works and why when it comes to driving clean energy innovation.
This session brings together cutting-edge empirical research on energy innovation, with a particularfocus on the economic motivations for increasing public support for clean energy Ramp;D and how
such funding impacts innovation outcomes. The session will begin with an examination of knowledge
spillovers that accrue from clean and dirty technology innovations. It will then explore financing
constraints faced by small renewable energy firms, which impede innovative activity, and it will
wrap-up with analyses of how Ramp;D funding mechanisms impact firm behaviour and innovation
outcomes.

The Low-carbon Transition: First Evidence from US Counties

Jeremy Proville, Environmental Defense Fund; Thomas Stoerk, Environmental Defense Fund

Sensing Methane Emissions: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Remote Sensing Satellite
Technologies
Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future; Laura Zachary, Consultant; Riley Duren, NASA JPL

The Benefits of Uniform Compliance with National Air Quality Standards

Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future; Daniel Sullivan, Resources for the Future

TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Chair: Natalia Zugravu-Soilita, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Room: Handels: D32

Energy prices and industrial foreign investment location: evidence from global firm level
data
Aurélien Saussay, Sciences Po / CIRED; Misato Sato, London School of Economics
Discussant: Elena Verdolini, FEEM and CMCC

Environmental Policy and International Trade: New Evidence from Structural Gravity
Laura Bonacorsi, FEEM and CMCC; Elena Verdolini, FEEM and CMCC
Discussant: Robert Elliott, University of Birmingham

The Pollution Outsourcing Hypothesis: An Empirical Test for Japan

Robert Elliott, University of Birmingham
Discussant: Natalia Zugravu-Soilita, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Trade in environmental goods: empirical exploration of direct and indirect effects on
pollution by country’s trade status
Natalia Zugravu-Soilita, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Discussant: Aurélien Saussay, Sciences Po / CIREDVALUATION: HEDONIC PRICING

Room: Handels: B33

Chair: Daniel Bigelow, Economic Research Service

Using matching methods to estimate impacts of wildfire and post-wildfire flooding on house
pricesJulie Mueller, Northern Arizona University; Abraham Springer, Northern Arizona University; Ryan Lima,
Northern Arizona University; Erik Schiefer, Northern Arizona University
Discussant: David Wolf, The Ohio State University

Does Heterogeneity within the Second-Stage Matter? Recovering Water Quality Demand
Functions using a Nationwide Housing Database

David Wolf, The Ohio State University; Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Ohio State University; H. Allen Klaiber,
The Ohio State University
Discussant: Charles Wassell, Central Washington University

Quantifying the Impact of the Kittitas County Groundwater Moratorium on Housing and Bare
Land Parcel Prices
Charles Wassell, Central Washington University; Toni Sipic, Central Washington University; Kaleb
Javier, Central Washington University
Discussant: Daniel Bigelow, Economic Research Service

The compatibility of farmland sales and opinion survey data

Daniel Bigelow, Economic Research Service; Jennifer Ifft, Cornell University; Todd Kuethe, University of
Illinois
Discussant: Julie Mueller, Northern Arizona University

VALUATION: RESOURCES

Chair: Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Mekelle University

Room: Handels: F44

The contingent valuation study of Heiðmörk, Iceland – willingness to pay for preservation
David Cook, University of Iceland; Brnyhildur Davíðsdóttir, University of Iceland
Discussant: Gianluca Grilli, Economic and Social Research Institute

Exploring the Role Of Emotions On Stated Preferences For Wildlife Conservation

Gianluca Grilli, Economic and Social Research Institute; Sandra Notaro, Department of Economics andManagement, University of Trento, Italy
Discussant: Max T. Stoeven, Kiel University

Buying information or warm-glow? The relationship between ecolabels and seafood

Max T. Stoeven, Kiel University; Julia Bronnmann, Kiel University; Martin Quaas, University of Kiel;
Frank Asche, (1) Institute for Sustainable Food Systems and School of Forest Resources andConservation, University of Florida, Gainesville; (2) Dep. of Industrial Economics, University of Stavanger
Discussant: Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Mekelle University

Valuation of access to irrigation water in rural Ethiopia: application of choice experimentand contingent valuation methods
Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Mekelle University; Alemu Mekkonnen, Addis Ababa University; Abebe
Beyene, Ethiopian Development Research Institute; Fitsum Hagos, International Water Management
Institute

Discussant: David Cook, University of Iceland

VALUATION: TRAVEL COST

Chair: John C. Bergstrom, University of Georgia

Room: Handels: B44

A site-portfolio model for multiple-destination recreation trips: valuing trips to nationalparks in the southwest USA

George Parsons, University of Delaware; Kevin Boyle, University of Maine; Nancy Bockstael, Universityof Maryland; Chris Leggett, Bedrock Statistics; Joe Herriges, Michigan State University; Zoe Chen,
University of Delaware
Discussant: Koichi Kuriyama, Kyoto University

The Value of Leisure Time of Weekends and Long Holidays: The Multiple Discrete–
Continuous Extreme Value (MDCEV) Choice Model with Triple Constraints

Koichi Kuriyama, Kyoto University; Yasushi Shoji, Hokkaido University; Takahiro Tsuge, Konan
University
Discussant: George Parsons, University of Delaware

Attribute Non-attendance in a Revealed Preference Study

Kevin Boyle, University of Maine; Mark Morrison, Charles Sturt University; Weibin Xu, Analyst; George
Parsons, University of Delaware; John Rose, The University of Technology Sydney
Discussant: John C. Bergstrom, University of Georgia

A Latent Class Approach for Modeling Arbitrariness in the Definition of ‘Visitors’ for
Individual Trip Behavior

KAVITA SARDANA, TERI SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDIES; John C. Bergstrom, University of Georgia;
Oleksiy Tokovenko, SAS Institute Inc.
Discussant: Kevin Boyle, University of MaineCoffee break

Tuesday, 15.30-16.00
Room: Handels / Haga

Parallell sessions 3
Tuesday June 26, 16.00-17.45

Parallel session 3

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Tuesday, 16.00-17.45

Chair: Phu Nguyen-Van, BETA, CNRS Université de Strasbourg

Room: Handels: B22

Pro-environmental and Other Altruistic Attitudes in Malaysia: Effects of Worldviews

Naoko Okuyama, Osaka Gakuin University; Yee Keong Choy, Keio University; Masao Ogaki, Keio
University; Ayumi Onuma, Keio University
Discussant: Mariangela Zoli, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Doggy bag? Yes, please. On the use of social norms and default to reduce food waste

Matilde Giaccherini, University of Rome Tor Vergata; Marianna Gilli, Università di Ferrara; Susanna
Mancinelli, University of Ferrara; Mariangela Zoli, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Discussant: Dambala Gelo Kutela, University of Witwatersrand

Cooperation under alternative punishment institutions: Experimental evidence from
commons’ dilemma
Dambala Gelo Kutela, University of Witwatersrand
Discussant: Phu Nguyen-Van, BETA, CNRS Université de Strasbourg

Determinants of pro-environmental collective behavior

Phu Nguyen-Van, BETA, CNRS Université de Strasbourg; Anne Stenger, BETA, INRA Université deStrasbourg; Tuyen Tiet-Tong, BETA, CNRS Université de Strasbourg
Discussant: Naoko Okuyama, Osaka Gakuin University

CLIMATE CHANGE: EMPIRICAL MODELLING

Chair: Lutz Sager, London School of Economics and Political Science

Room: Handels: C22

A Multicointegration Model of Global Climate ChangeDavid Stern, Australian National University; Zsuzsanna Csereklyei, Australian National University;
Stephan Bruns, Göttingen University
Discussant: Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal, Østfold University College

Optimal Scheduling of Greenhouse Gas Emissions under Carbon Budgeting and Policy Design
Elettra Agliardi, University of Bologna; Anastasios Xepapadeas, Athens University of Economics andBusiness University of Bologna
Discussant: David Stern, Australian National University

Investigating the Environmental Kuznets Curve for the US through the I(2) Cointegration
Model
Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal, Østfold University College
Discussant: Lutz Sager, London School of Economics and Political Science

Income Inequality and Carbon Consumption: Evidence from Environmental Engel Curves
Lutz Sager, London School of Economics and Political Science
Discussant: Elettra Agliardi, University of Bologna

CLIMATE CHANGE: POLICY
Chair: Brandon Schaufele, Western University

Room: Handels: C33

CO2 tax scenarios for Austria – impacts on households, CO2 emissions, and the economy

Mathias Kirchner, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO); Mark Sommer, Austrian Institute of
Economic Research (WIFO); Claudia Kettner, Austrian Institute pf Economic Research (WIFO); Daniela
Kletzan-Slamanig, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO); Katharina Köberl, Austrian Instituteof Economic Research (WIFO); Kurt Kratena, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
Discussant: Richard Jaimes, Tilburg University

Optimal climate and fiscal policy in an OLG economy
Richard Jaimes, Tilburg University
Discussant: Marie-Catherine Riekhof, ETH Zurich

Permit Markets, Carbon Prices and the Creation of Innovation Clusters
Hans Gersbach, ETH Zurich; Marie-Catherine Riekhof, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Brandon Schaufele, Western University

Marginal Excess Burden of Unilateral Carbon Taxes: Evidence from Agriculture
Brandon Schaufele, Western University
Discussant: Mathias Kirchner, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)

ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY

Chair: Claudia Kettner, Austrian Institute pf Economic Research (WIFO)

Room: Handels: B33

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, “STRANDED ASSETS,” AND ENERGY DECARBONIZATION
Michael Toman, World Bank; Jevgenijs Steinbuks, World Bank; Alexander Golub, World Bank
Discussant: Ruediger Pethig, University of SiegenEU-type carbon regulation and the waterbed effect of green energy promotion
Ruediger Pethig, University of Siegen
Discussant: Levi Marks, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Abatement Cost of Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Production
Levi Marks, University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Claudia Kettner, Austrian Institute pf Economic Research (WIFO)The Status of Climate Policy Integration in EU Energy Policy

Claudia Kettner, Austrian Institute pf Economic Research (WIFO); Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig, Austrian
Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
Discussant: Michael Toman, World BankENERGY: BEHAVIOR

Chair: Timo Goeschl, Heidelberg University

A Behavioral Rebound Effect

Zack Dorner, University of Waikato

Room: Handels: B44

Discussant: Neslihan Uler, University of Maryland

Behavioral Sources of the Demand for Carbon Offsets: An Experimental Study
Neslihan Uler, University of Maryland; Kai-Uwe Kuhn, University of East Anglia
Discussant: Luisa Dressler, OECDDo alert the inert! Switching costs vs limited awareness in retail electricity markets
Luisa Dressler, OECD; Weiergraeber Stefan, Indiana University
Discussant: Timo Goeschl, Heidelberg University

Cold Case: The forensic economics of energy efficiency labels for domestic refrigeration
appliances
Timo Goeschl, Heidelberg University
Discussant: Zack Dorner, University of Waikato

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Hailemariam Teklewold, Ethiopian Development Research InstituteRoom: Handels: F44

Fuel poverty and residential energy demand: how fuel-poor households react to energy pricefluctuations
Sondès Kahouli, University of Western Brittany (France)
Discussant: Eyoual Demeke, Gothenburg University

The Persistence of Energy Poverty: A Dynamic Probit

Eyoual Demeke, Gothenburg University; Yonas Alem, Gothenburg University
Discussant: Elke Costanti, University of Brasilia

The Sustainable Development Goals under a Nexus Analysis: symmetries, synergies andtrade-offs in Brazilian Environmental Policies

Elke Costanti, University of Brasilia; Samara Martins, University of Brasilia; Fernanda Crispim,
University of Brasilia; Heloisa Dourado, University of Brasilia; Johannes Klingberg, University of Brasilia;
Carlos Eduardo Silva Menezes, University of Brasilia; Jorge Madeira Nogueira, University of Brasilia
Discussant: Hailemariam Teklewold, Ethiopian Development Research InstituteWeather at different growth stages, multiple climate smart practices and farm level risks:
Panel data evidence from the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Hailemariam Teklewold, Ethiopian Development Research Institute; Alemu Mekkonnen, Addis Ababa
University
Discussant: Sondès Kahouli, University of Western Brittany (France)

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: INTERVENTIONS
Chair: James Sanchirico, University of California, Davis

NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions

Room: Handels: F43

Faraz Usmani, Duke University; Marc Jeuland, Duke University; Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University
Discussant: Goytom Abraha Kahsay, University of CopenhagenDo public work programs crowd-out pro-environmental behaviour? Empirical evidence fromthe Ethiopian food-for-work program
Goytom Abraha Kahsay, University of Copenhagen; Workineh Asmare Kassie, University of Gondar;
Abebe Beyene, Ethiopian Development Research Institute; Lars Gårn Hansen, University of Copenhagen
Discussant: Yaniv Stopnitzky, University of San Francisco

Changing Behavior Through Experimental Games: Evidence from Sanitation and Hygiene in
Tamil Nadu
Yaniv Stopnitzky, University of San Francisco
Discussant: James Sanchirico, University of California, Davis

Environmental Impacts of Cash Transfer Programs: Implications for the Welfare of Poor
Communities in Developing Countries
James Sanchirico, University of California, Davis; Ted Gilliland, Department of Economics, Mount
Holyoke College; J. Edward Taylor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
Discussant: Faraz Usmani, Duke University

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: IMPACT

Chair: Xiao-Bing Zhang, Renmin University of China

Room: Handels: D33

Coordination and Inequalities in Agglomeration Payments: An Experimental Analysis
Elisabeth Gsottbauer, University of Innsbruck
Discussant: Christopher Blackburn, Georgia Institute of Technology

Do Pilot Projects Alter Non-Participant Behavior? Evidence from a Green Building Standard
Christopher Blackburn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute ofTechnology; Mallory Flowers, Erasmus University; Daniel Matisoff, Georgia Institute of Technology
Discussant: MARCO VINCENZI, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

Environmental Justice and the Print Media During the Implementation of Superfund

Robert Mohr, University of New Hampshire; SHRAWANTEE SAHA, College of Saint Benedict - Saint John’s
University; MARCO VINCENZI, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Discussant: Xiao-Bing Zhang, Renmin University of China

How do firms respond to temporary emissions control policies? Evidence from a naturalexperiment in China

Xiao-Bing Zhang, Renmin University of China; Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, National University of Singapore; Ping
Qin, Renmin University of China; Xueying Yu, Beihang University
Discussant: Elisabeth Gsottbauer, University of Innsbruck

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: MARKETS

Chair: Giulia Pavan, Toulouse School of Economics

Optimal Stabilization in an Emission Permits Market

Room: Handels: C24

Roweno J.R.K. Heijmans, Tilburg University; Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg University
Discussant: John Stranlund, Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts-AmherstTying enforcement to prices in emissions markets: An experimental evaluation

John Stranlund, Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; James
Murphy, Department of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage; John Spraggon, Department of
Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Nikolaos Zirogiannis, School of Public andEnvironmental Affairs, Indiana University-Bloomington
Discussant: Ian MacKenzie, University of Queensland

Permit Market Auctions with Allowance Reserves

Ian MacKenzie, University of Queensland; Peyman Khezr, University of Queensland
Discussant: Giulia Pavan, Toulouse School of Economics

The Impact of European Carbon Market on Firm Productivity:Evidences from Italian
Manufacturing Firms.

Giulia Pavan, Toulouse School of Economics; Sara Calligaris, OECD; Filippo Maria D'Arcangelo, Toulouse
School of Economics
Discussant: Roweno J.R.K. Heijmans, Tilburg University

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: THEORY

Chair: Lluis Granero, University of Valencia

Room: Handels: D32

Growth, pollution, policy!

Robert Hart, Dep. of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Discussant: Chiara Ravetti, University of Oxford/Politechnic of TurinEmissions, Exporters And Heterogeneity: Asymmetric Trade Policy And Firms’ Selection

Chiara Ravetti, University of Oxford/Politechnic of Turin; Richard Baldwin, The Graduate Institute of
GenevaDiscussant: Marion Dupoux, University of Gothenburg

Contextual substitutability and the nature of environmental public goods

Marion Dupoux, University of Gothenburg; Vincent Martinet, UMR Economie Publique, INRAAgroParisTech
Discussant: Lluis Granero, University of Valencia

Sustainable Products, Market Structure, and Welfare

Begoña Casino, University of Valencia; Lluis Granero, University of Valencia
Discussant: Robert Hart, Dep. of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

FISHERIES: THEORY

Chair: Stephanie Stefanski, Duke University

Seasonal Harvest Patterns in Multispecies Fisheries

Room: Haga: Dragonen

Martin Smith, ; Anna Birkenbach, Duke University; Frank Asche, (1) Institute for Sustainable Food
Systems and School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville; (2) Dep. ofIndustrial Economics, University of Stavanger; Andreea Cojocaru, Department of Industrial Economics,
University of Stavanger; Atle G Guttormsen, Dep. of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian
University of Life Sciences

Discussant: Gal Hochman, Rutgers University

The Political Economy of Market Mediated Incentives: The Case of Embodied Technologies
Gal Hochman, Rutgers University; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Florian Diekert, University of Heidelberg

Non-compliance behavior and use of extraction rights for natural resources

Yuanhao Li, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Linda Nostakken, NHH; Florian Diekert, University
of Heidelberg; Andries Richter, Wageningen University
Discussant: Stephanie Stefanski, Duke University

Use it or Lose it: A Bioeconomic Model of Utilization Rules in an ITQ Fishery
Stephanie Stefanski, Duke University; Martin Smith, Duke University
Discussant: Martin Smith,

POLICY SESSION: IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO? CARBONPRICING IN THE PRESENCE OF A PRE‐EXISTING CAP AND
TRADE PROGRAM

Room: Handels: Aulan

Organizer(s): Burcin Unel, Institute for Policy Integrity, New York University; Jeffrey Shrader,
Columbia University and New York University
Chair: Burcin Unel, Institute for Policy Integrity, New York University

Deep decarbonization goals are motivating many countries and sub-national governments to pursue
more aggressive greenhouse gas mitigation policies and to use multiple policy tools at the same time.
A discussion of the interaction among multiple policy tools to achieve economy wide decarbonization
goals is much needed to inform various policy discussions going on around the world. This policy
session, with the goal of filling this gap, will examine the issues around the overlap of a domestic
carbon price floor and a pre-existing cap and trade program. The session will be formatted as aroundtable discussion on how different policies could work best together, lessons learned fromdifferent jurisdictions that have implemented dual policies, and the crucial design details with theintent of informing policymakers around the world. A central topic of discussion will be theoreticalconcerns about leakage as well as empirical results that can shed light on whether such leakage
should practically concern policymakers. Additionally, the panel will discuss policymaking tradeoffs
and concerns about additional carbon pricing policies such as a price floor in the presence of a capand-trade.
Panelist(s): Nicole Bouchez, New York Independent System Operator;
Cameron Hepburn, Oxford University;
Karsten Neuhoff, DIW Berlin;
Karen Palmer, Resources for the Future;
Jeffrey Shrader, Columbia University and New York University

POLICY SESSION: LINKING CARBON MARKETS: PROSPECTS
AND CHALLENGES

Room: Handels: Malmsten

Organizer(s): Simone Borghesi, FSR Climate, European University Institute; Isabella Alloisio, FSR
Climate, European University Institute
Chair: Simone Borghesi, University of Siena and FSR Climate - European University InstituteAs countries move to implement their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris
Agreement, a growing number of them and of sub-national jurisdictions are considering using carbon
markets to meet their mitigation commitments. There is an emerging need to share the experienceson implementation of emissions trading systems to date, and to further promote emissions trading as
a cost-effective climate policy tool. According to mainstream literature, a global carbon market would
be the most cost-efficient solution to achieve the overall objective of keeping global warming below
two degrees celsius. The Policy Session speakers will discuss both advantages and risks that a fullylinked market would involve.
Panelist(s): Duan Maosheng, China Carbon Market Center, Tsinghua University;
Jos Delbeke, European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission;Gernot Wagner, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University;
Luca Taschini, The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, London School of
Economics;
Martin Weitzman, Harvard University

POLICY SESSION: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL POLICYINSTRUMENTS TO MITIGATE THE CLIMATE IMPACTS OF
AVIATION

Room: Handels: E45

Organizer(s): Jonas Akerman, ; Jonathan Camuzeaux, Environmental Defense Fund; Jörgen Larsson,
Chalmers University of Technology
Chair: Daniel Slunge, FRAM - The Centre for Future Chemical Risk Assessment and Management,
University of Gothenburg

Aviation currently accounts for 2.4% of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions and 4-5% of
greenhouse gas emissions when contrails and cloud formation are also accounted for. At the sametime, international aviation is exempted from energy tax, carbon tax and VAT, instruments that are
widely used in road transport. In order for aviation to contribute to the Paris targets, there is
therefore a need for policy instruments that can substitute for these taxes. International policy
instruments designed to address emissions from aviation, such as contained in the EU ETS and in theInternational Civil Aviation Organizations market-based measure CORSIA (Carbon Offsetting andReduction Scheme for International Aviation) will be discussed during this Policy Session, as well as
possible complementary international and national policies.
Panelist(s): Jonas Akerman, ;Pedro Piris-Cabezas, Environmental Defense Fund

POLICY SESSION: THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ACTS:
EMISSIONS, POLICIES, AND PUBLIC OPINION

Room: Handels: E43

Organizer(s): Simon Matti,
Chair: Simon Matti,

As a response to the increasing pressure to mitigate climate change, several governments around theworld have introduced Climate Change Acts (CCAs), thereby creating a legal framework forgovernmental climate activities that regulates either or both emission target-levels and processes forthe government to set and reach these targets in a long-term perspective. Whereas the overall
ambition of a CCA is to strengthening long-term political commitments, possibilities for cross-sectoral
coordination, as well as the processes for implementation, monitoring and evaluation of domestic
climate-mitigation strategies, the question of their impacts on climate mitigation remains.

This policy session will bring together scholars and practitioners for a joint discussion and exchangeof experiences of the impacts of Climate Change Acts. The overall question guiding the discussing iswhether CCAs been conducive to forwarding climate mitigation, why (or why not), to what extent,
and in which aspects? Discussions will both concern possible direct effects on reducing emissionlevels, as well as possible indirect effects on policy-making and implementation, and public attention
to and opinion of climate mitigation. Furthermore, the policy session will also touch upon experiencesof the pitfalls and possibilities surrounding CCAs and their implementation.
Panelist(s): Sam Fankhauser, London School of Economics/The Grantham Institute;
Sarah Louise Nash, Researcher, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU),
Vienna, Austria;
Alejandro Lopez-Feldman, Chair, Department of Economics, Centro de Estudios yDocencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City, Mexico;
Ola Alterå, Swedish Climate Policy Council, Stockholm, Sweden Representative for the
Swedish Government, TBC

RISK: PREFERENCES AND BEHAVIOR
Chair: Romain Bizet, Mines ParisTech

Room: Handels: B23

Capitalization of Flood Insurance and Risk Perceptions in Housing Prices: An Empirical
Agent-Based Model Approach

Koen de Koning, University of Twente; Tatiana Filatova, University of Twente; Okmyung Bin, East
Carolina University
Discussant: Hide-Fumi Yokoo, National Institute for Environmental Studies

Subjective beliefs and estimated risks: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in
India

Hide-Fumi Yokoo, National Institute for Environmental Studies; Mriduchhanda Chattopadhyay,
Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University; Toshi H Arimura, Faculty of Political Science andEconomics, Waseda University; Hajime Katayama, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University; Mari
Sakudo, Research Institute of Capital Formation, Development Bank of Japan
Discussant: Arnaud Goussebaile, ETH Zurich

Prevention and Insurance in Cities Prone to Natural Disaster Risks
Arnaud Goussebaile, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Romain Bizet, Mines ParisTech

Communicating disasters

Romain Bizet, Mines ParisTech; Pierre Fleckinger, MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, Paris
School of Economics
Discussant: Tatiana Filatova, University of Twente

THEMATIC SESSION: ENVIRONMENTAL INSPECTION STORM
IN CHINA: IMPACT ANALYSES
Organizer(s): Min Wang, Peking Univeristy
Chair: Min Wang, Peking Univeristy

Room: Handels: SEB

Chinas rapid economic growth in the last four decades has been accompanied by major increases inenvironmental pollution that have reached alarming levels in many areas. The local governors,
however, have limited incentive to voluntarily control pollution emission as their promotions mainly
depend on the local economic growth. To address this incentive compatibility issue, in recent years
the central government starts to intervene local practice in the environmental protection, andimplemented binding environmental policies.
The three empirical studies included in this session examine the consequences of three recent
environmental policies implemented by the central government, i.e., central environmental
inspection policy, temporary emission control policy and household coal reduction policy. The threestudies show that 1) the central environmental inspection policy not only deters the firm entry but
also triggers price fluctuations of commodity goods in inspected industries; 2) The temporary
emission control policy significantly reduces the pollutant emission during the policy implementation
period but induces firms to emit more pollutants than before to compensate their loss when thepolicy is phased out; 3) The coal reduction policy reduces the coal consumption of the households atthe cost of more household expenditure in heating and lower in-door temperature in the winterseason.

Battling Against Local and Global Air Pollution at Household Level -- A Cost-Benefit Analysisof the Household Coal Reduction Program in China
Lunyu Xie, Renmin University of China

Economic Impacts of Environment Inspection Storm in China

Min Wang, Peking Univeristy; Dandan Zhang, Peking University; Xiaoying Liu, Peking University; Zhou
Zou, Peking University

THEMATIC SESSION: LAB AND FIELD EXPERIMENTS FOR
IMPROVING THE DESIGN OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICIES

Room: Handels: Volvo

Organizer(s): Nicholas Hanley, University of Glasgow; Simanti Banerjee, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln
Chair: Nicholas Hanley, University of Glasgow

There is great interest in both academic and policy circles in how best to design policies which
encourage the supply of public goods from private land. Payment for Ecosystem Service schemes
have been adapted worldwide as one way of solving this policy design problem. How land is used for
agriculture exerts a powerful influence on biodiversity conservation, and farmers are now offered a
range of incentives to encourage them to farm in a more biodiversity-friendly manner. This session
brings together 4 papers which use lab and field experiments to investigate important policy design
problems in this context, including (i) bidding by groups of farmers, rather than by individual
farmers, in a conservation auction (ii) how to maintain efficiency when auctions are repeated overtime (iii) the use of an agglomeration bonus to encourage spatial coordination of bids. Empiricalexamples are drawn from agri-environment conflicts in China, the US and Australia.

Adding Realism to the Agglomeration Bonus: How Endogenous Land Returns, Spatial
Heterogeneity, and Affordability affect Pollinator Habitat Fragmentation

Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming; Chian Ritten, University of Wyoming

Are auctions for environmental service provision likely to suffer with repetition?
Stuart Whitten, CSIRO; Andrew Reeson, CSIRO, canberra; Tim Capon, CSIRO

Performance of agglomeration bonuses in conservation auctions: Lessons from a framed
field experiment
Andreas Kontoleon, ; Zhaoyang Liu, Peking University

Spatial Coordination and Joint Bidding in Conservation Auctions

Simanti Banerjee, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Nick Hanley, University of Glasgow; Frans de Vries,
University of Stirling; Tim Cason, Purdue University

THEMATIC SESSION: LAND SPARING VS LAND SHARING:MINIMISING TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN AGRICULTURALPRODUCTION AND THE CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY
AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES?

Room: Handels: F45

Organizer(s): Charles Palmer, London School of Economics
Chair: Charles Palmer, London School of Economics

Against a back-drop of competing land-use demands, researchers and policy-makers continue todebate strategies for minimising the impact of increasing food production on biodiversity andecosystem services. Two in particular have been put forward as a means of reconciling trade-offs
between food production and conservation aims: land sparing and land sharing (Green et al., 2005;
Phalen et al., 2011; Kremen, 2015). Thus, for a given production target and area of land, some fractionof land could be intensively farmed with the residual area #39;spared#39; (maintained or restored)
as a natural habitat, or biodiversity conservation could share the same land being used to produce
food, i.e. using wildlife-friendly farming methods. Research on the strategies of land sparing and land
sharing has, to date, been largely undertaken by ecologists and conservation scientists. This thematic
session seeks to engage the community of environmental and resource economists with thisimportant topic and in doing so, address a number of gaps and flaws in the existing literature.

The Economics of the Food versus Biodiversity Debate

Vincent Martinet, UMR Economie Publique, INRA-AgroParisTech

Land Sparing in Agricultural LandscapesCharles Palmer, London School of Economics; Ben Groom, London School of Economics

Scarcity and Safe Operating Spaces: The Example of Natural Forests

Edward B. Barbier, Colorado State University; Joanne Burgess, Department of Economics, Colorado
State University

Natural capital decision making for land use: From scenario analysis to optimisation
Ian Bateman, University of East Anglia

THEMATIC SESSION: POLITICAL ECONOMY LEVERS OFENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION

Room: Handels: CG-room

Organizer(s): Ralph Winkler, ; Achim Hagen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Alessandro Tavoni,
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE
Chair: Ralph Winkler, University of Bern

Environmental problems often operate on an international or even global scale. One of the mostprominent examples is the mitigation of anthropogenic climate change, which requires international
coordination and cooperation in the absence of a supranational regulatory body. Yet, international
cooperation is difficult to achieve, as greenhouse gas mitigation is a global public good. The economic
literature studying cooperation on the provision of global public goods through international
environmental agreements predominantly depicts individual countries as atomistic players in a noncooperative game setting. This is justified by the assumption of governments acting as monolithic
benevolent social planners that seek to maximise social welfare of their respective countries. In
contrast, the public choice literature challenges this restrictive assumption and consistently finds thatall kind of domestic political competition -- such as lobbying, electoral concerns and strategicdelegation -- crucially influence international policymaking. The thematic session on Political
Economy Levers of Environmental Cooperation combines four papers that advance the economic
literature by modelling the influence of lobbying, concerns for re-election and strategic delegation on
environmental cooperation.

The Political Economy of Weak Treaties

Marco Battaglini, Cornell University and EIEF; Bard Harstad, Esop University Of Oslo

The Influence of Political Pressure Groups on the Stability of International Environmental
Agreements
Achim Hagen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Juan-Carlos Altamirano, World Resources Institute;Hans-Peter Weikard, Wageningen University

Strategic Delegation in the Formation of International Environmental Agreements
Sarah Spycher, University of Bern; Ralph Winkler, University of Bern

Delegation and Public Pressure in a Threshold Public Goods Game
Doruk Iris, Sogang University; Jungmin Lee, Seoul National University and Institute for the Study ofLabor; Alessandro Tavoni, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE

THEMATIC SESSION: PROGRAM EVALUATION WITH
BEHAVIORAL STRUCTURAL ECONOMETRIC MODELS:
THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM ENERGY EFFICIENCYPOLICIES

Room: Handels: SKF

Organizer(s): Sebastien Houde, ETH Zurich; Cristian Huse, Stockholm School of Economics
Chair: Sebastien Houde, ETH Zurich

The goal of this thematic session is to discuss recent advances in program evaluation using behavioral
structural econometric modeling. Behavioral structural econometric models consist of econometricmodels that are grounded in theory, but that explicitly or implicitly have to account for potential
behavioral biases in the decision-makers they aim to model. The presence of behavioral biases brings
several issues related to modeling, estimation and identification of structural econometric models.

Moreover, they raise new challenges in performing welfare evaluation and using the econometricmodel to conduct normative policy evaluation. The four papers in this session have all amethodological component and contribute to this nascent and rapidly growing field of economics.
They are also closely related in terms of application, as they are all applied to energy efficiency
policies. In particular, all four papers use a behavioral structural econometric model to perform apolicy evaluation of energy efficiency policies in the appliance market.

The Heterogeneous Effects of Eco-labels on Internalities and Externalities
Anshuman Sahoo, Boston Consulting Group; Nik Sawe, Stanford University

Consumer Response to Energy Label Policies: Evidence from the Brazilian Energy Label
Program∗

Cristian Huse, Stockholm School of Economics; Claudio Lucinda, University of São Paulo; André Ribeiro,Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University

Heterogeneous Misperceptions of Energy Costs: Implications for Measurement and Policy
DesignSebastien Houde, ETH Zurich; Erica Myers, University of Illinois

THEMATIC SESSION: THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN
FINANCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Organizer(s): Oskar Lecuyer,

Room: Handels: E44/GBJroom

Chair: Oskar Lecuyer,

Climate financial bubbles: How market sentiments shape the transition to low-carbon capital
Antoine Godin, Agence Française de Développement

Carbon Pricing and Global Warming: A Stock-flow Consistent Macro-dynamic Approach
Florent Mc Isaac, Agence Française de Développement

Playing DICE with money

Antonin Pottier, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne

VALUATION: METHOD

Chair: Michela Faccioli, The James Hutton Institute; the University of Exeter

Room: Handels: B32

Diagnosing insensitivity to scope: The case of oil spills in a pristine arctic coastal area
Ana Faria Lopes, University of Stavanger; Gorm Kipperberg, University of Stavanger
Discussant: Elke D. Groh, University of Kassel

The causal effect of religious and environmental identity on green preferences: A combined
priming and stated choice experiment
Daniel Engler, University of Kassel; Elke D. Groh, University of Kassel; Andreas Ziegler, University ofKasselDiscussant: Randall Bluffstone, Portland State UniversityTemporal Stability of Preferences - A difference-in-difference analysis of an improved stove
choice experiment from Ethiopia

Sahan Dissanayake, Portland; Abebe Beyene, Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC); Randall
Bluffstone, Portland State University; Shannon Kooser, Colby College; Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Mekelle
University; Alemu Mekkonnen, Addis Ababa University; Peter Martinsson, University of Gothenburg;
Michael Toman, World Bank; George Voigt, Colby College; Dan LaFave, Colby College
Discussant: Michela Faccioli, The James Hutton Institute; the University of Exeter

Environmental attitudes and place identity as simultaneous determinants of preferences forenvironmental goods

Michela Faccioli, The James Hutton Institute; the University of Exeter; Mikolaj Czajkowski, University of
Warsaw; Klaus Glenk, Scotland's Rural College; Julia Martin-Ortega, University of Leeds
Discussant: Ana Faria Lopes, University of Stavanger

WATER MANAGEMENT

Chair: Anne-Sarah chiambretto, CESAER, Experimental School of Art of Annecy

Room: Haga: B210

Drivers of participation in gypsum treatment of fields as an innovation for water protection
Anna-Kaisa Kosenius, University of Helsinki; Markku Ollikainen, University of Helsinki
Discussant: Sanna Lötjönen, University of Helsinki

Dairy farm management when nutrient runoff and climate emissions count

Sanna Lötjönen, University of Helsinki; Esa Temmes, University of Helsinki; Markku Ollikainen,
University of Helsinki
Discussant: Ami Reznik, University of California, Riverside, School of Public Policy

Treated Wastewater Reuse: An Efficient and Sustainable Solution for Natural Water
Resources Growing Scarcity

Ami Reznik, University of California, Riverside, School of Public Policy; Ariel Dinar, University ofCalifornia, Riverside, School of Public Policy; Francesc Hernandez-Sancho, University of Valencia,
Department of Applied Economics
Discussant: Anne-Sarah chiambretto, CESAER, Experimental School of Art of Annecy

Water quantity management in a heterogeneous landscape with strategic farmers

Anne-Sarah chiambretto, CESAER, Experimental School of Art of Annecy; Elsa Martin, CESAER, AgroSup
Dijon, INRA, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
Discussant: Anna-Kaisa Kosenius, University of Helsinki

Awards
AERE Fellows Award

Special Policy Session

POLICY DEBATE ON CLIMATE
Climate policy that can live up to the Paris goals.

Tuesday, 18.00-18.20

Room: Smyrna

Tuesday, 18.20-19.40
Room: Smyrna

Panelists:

Jos Delbeke, Senior Advisor to the EU Commission President

Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator of the USEPA 2013-17
E Somanathan, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute

Hua Wang, Professor.Renmin University of China, Beijing.
Chair: Thomas Sterner

The Paris Agreement is contradictory. On the one hand, it has very radical goals such as staying as close
as possible to 1.5 degrees warming. It has global unanimous participation and many NDCs are inspiring
and ambitious. On the other hand it has little in the way of mandatory policy or verification - and notprice on carbon. Against this background our three panelists will discuss national and international
perspectives on climate policy. In particular they will address the challenges where environmental
economics might help define solutions.

Parallell sessions 4,
Wednesday June 27, 8.30-10.15

Parallel session 4

AGRICULTURE EXTERNALITIESChair: George Hutchinson, Queen's University Belfast

Wednesday, 08.30-10.15
Room: Handels: F45

Cover crops and water quality

Elsa Martin, CESAER, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
Discussant: Andrew Plantinga, University of Calforinia, Santa Barbara

Unintended Effects of Environmental Policies: The Case of Urban Growth Controls andAgricultural Intensification

Andrew Plantinga, University of Calforinia, Santa Barbara; Matthew Fienup, California Lutheran
University
Discussant: Raja Chakir, INRA, UMR Economie Publique

Input taxation at different spatial scales: reducing nitrogen fertilizer use in Europe whenclimate and land use change

Anna Lungarska, INRA, UMR Economie Publique; Raja Chakir, INRA, UMR Economie Publique; PierreAlain Jayet, INRA UMR210 Economie Publique,Avenue Lucien Brétignières, 78850 Thiverval–Grignon,
FranceDiscussant: George Hutchinson, Queen's University Belfast

Environmental efficiency and pollution costs of nitrogen surplus in dairy farms: A parametric
hyperbolic technology distance function approach
Adewale Henry Adenuga, Queen's University Belfast,UK; Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, UK;
Teagasc, Republic of Ireland; Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, University
of Ilorin, Nigeria; John Davis, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI); George Hutchinson, Queen's
University Belfast; Trevor Donnellan, Teagasc; Myles Patton, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI)
Discussant: Elsa Martin, CESAER, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon,
FranceBEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Chair: José María Grisolia, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Room: Handels: B22

Experimenting on Farmer’s Decision-making under Hard Uncertainty: Heuristics, Reward
Type and Socioeconomic Determinants
Abrha Megos Meressa, PhD Student; Stale Navrud, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Discussant: Anna Abatayo, Bocconi University

Thankful or thankless: does the past's altruism increase the present's public good
contributions?

Anna Abatayo, Bocconi University; Bo Jellesmark Thorsen, University of Copenhagen; Lea Skreap
Svenningsen, Economics and Management, COWI
Discussant: Penelope Buckley, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INRA, Grenoble INP, GAEL, 38000 Grenoble,
FranceDemand response as a common pool resource: Nudges versus prices

Penelope Buckley, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INRA, Grenoble INP, GAEL, 38000 Grenoble, France;
Daniel Llerena, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INRA, Grenoble INP, GAEL, 38000 Grenoble, France
Discussant: José María Grisolia, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Comparing mortality risk reduction, life expectancy gains, and probability of achieving fulllife span, as alternatives for presenting CVD mortality risk reduction: A discrete choice studyof framing risk and health behaviour change
José María Grisolia, University of Nottingham Ningbo China; Alberto Longo, Queen's University Belfast;
George Hutchinson, Queen's University Belfast; Frank Kee, Queens University in Belfast
Discussant: Abrha Megos Meressa, PhD Student

CLIMATE CHANGE: MODELLING

Chair: Oleg Lugovoy, Environmental Defense Fund

Room: Handels: C22

Ageing Impact on the Economy and Emissions in China: A Global Computable General
Equilibrium Analysis

Taoyuan Wei, CICERO Center for International Climate Research; Qin Zhu, Fudan University; Solveig
Glomsrød, CICERO Center for International Climate Research
Discussant: Jakob Mayer, University of Graz

Macroeconomic implications of switching to process-emission-free iron and steel productionin Europe
Jakob Mayer, University of Graz; Gabriel Bachner, University of Graz; Karl Steininger, University of Graz
Discussant: Gabriel Bachner, University of Graz

The economy-wide effects of deep decarbonization and its uncertainties - The case of theEuropean iron and steel industry

Gabriel Bachner, University of Graz; Jakob Mayer, University of Graz; Annela Anger-Kraavi, Cambridge
Econometrics; Karl Steininger, University of Graz; Alistair Smith, Cambridge Econometrics
Discussant: Oleg Lugovoy, Environmental Defense Fund

Multi-model comparison of CO2 emissions peaking in China: Lessons from CEMF01 study

Oleg Lugovoy, Environmental Defense Fund; Xiangzhao Feng, Research Center for Environment andEconomy, Ministry of Environmental Protection, China; Ji Gao, Environmental Defense Fund; Jifeng Li,
State Information Center, China; Qiang Liu, National Center for Climate Change Strategy andInternational Cooperation, NDRC, China; Fei Teng, Institutes of Energy, Environment, and Economy,
Tsinghua University, China; Lele Zou, Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China
Discussant: Taoyuan Wei, CICERO Center for International Climate Research

CLIMATE CHANGE: POLICY UNDER UNCERTAINTY

Chair: Frederick van der Ploeg, Dep. of Economics, University of Oxford

Room: Handels: D33

Strategic interactions and uncertainty in decisions to curb greenhouse gas emissions

Margaret Insley, University of Waterloo; Tracy Snoddon, Wilfrid Laurier University; Peter A. Forsyth,
University of Waterloo
Discussant: Simon Dietz, LSE

Pricing an Unknown Climate

Svenn Jensen, Oslo Metropolitan University; Christian Traeger, University of Oslo
Discussant: Frederick van der Ploeg, Dep. of Economics, University of Oxford

THE RISK-ADJUSTED CARBON PRICE

Frederick van der Ploeg, Dep. of Economics, University of Oxford; ton van den bremer, oxford
Discussant: Margaret Insley, University of Waterloo

The Economics of 1.5°C Climate Change

Simon Dietz, LSE; Alex Bowen, LSE; Baran Doda, LSE; Ajay Gambhir, Imperial College London; Rachel
Warren, University of East Anglia
Discussant: Svenn Jensen, Oslo Metropolitan University

CLIMATE CHANGE: SOCIAL DISCOUNTING AND
INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY

Room: Handels: C24

Chair: Peter Howard, New York University School of Law

Combining discounting and distributional weights - Lessons from climate change economic
assessments
Disa Asplund, VTI - Swedish National Road and Transport Research InstituteDiscussant: Moritz Drupp, University of Hamburg

Relative Prices and Climate Policy: How the Scarcity of Non-Market Goods Drives Policy
Evaluation
Moritz Drupp, University of Hamburg; Martin Hänsel, Kiel University
Discussant: Christian Gollier, IDEI, Université de Toulouse

Term structures of discount rates: An international perspective

Christian Gollier, IDEI, Université de Toulouse; Olivier Mahul, World Bank
Discussant: Peter Howard, New York University School of Law

Two Heads are Better than One: Using Economic Consensus to Address Positive andNormative Uncertainties in Climate-Economic Models

Peter Howard, New York University School of Law; Derek Sylvan, Institute for Policy Integrity at New
York University School of Law
Discussant: Disa Asplund, VTI - Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute

ENERGY AND CLIMATE: DISTRIBUTIONAL ISSUES
Chair: Da Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Examining the Incidence of Energy Efficiency Incentives
Grant Jacobsen, University of Oregon
Discussant: Florian Landis, ETH Zürich

Cost Distribution and Equity of Climate Policy in Switzerland
Florian Landis, ETH Zürich

Room: Handels: D32

Discussant: Larry Goulder, Stanford University

Impacts of a Carbon Tax across US Household Groups: What Are the Equity-Efficiency TradeOffs?
Larry Goulder, Stanford University; Marc Hafstead, Resources for the Future; GyuRim Kim, UCLA
Department of Economics; Xianling Long, Department of Management Systems and Engineering
Discussant: Da Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Share of polluting input as a sufficient statistic for burden sharing

Da Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lin Zhang, City University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Grant Jacobsen, University of Oregon

ENERGY POLICY

Chair: Marita Laukkanen, VATT

Room: Haga: B228

Do energy prices affect employment? Decomposed, sector-specific evidence based oninternational data

Erik Hille, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management; Patrick Möbius, HHL Leipzig Graduate School ofManagement
Discussant: Fanny Henriet, PSE-CNRS

A disaggregation of the fuel tax

Fanny Henriet, PSE-CNRS; Stéphane Gauthier, PSE-Univ Paris 1
Discussant: Karol Kempa, Frankfurt School of Finance Management

Clean Energy Investment and Credit Rationing

Christian Haas, Justus-Liebig University; Karol Kempa, Frankfurt School of Finance Management
Discussant: Marita Laukkanen, VATT

Energy tax refunds and firm competitiveness in Finland’s energy intensive industries

Marita Laukkanen, VATT; Saara Tamminen, VATT Institute for Economic Research; Kimmo Ollikka,
VATT
Discussant: Erik Hille, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

ENERGY PRICING: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

Chair: Damien Dussaux, MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University

Room: Handels: Aulan

Pricing Reliability -- On optimal imbalance prices

Carla Mendes, University of Basel; Jan Abrell, Centre for Energy Policy and Economice (CEPE), ETH
Zurich; Jonas Savelsberg, University of Basel; Hannes Weigt, University of Basel
Discussant: Michael Roberts, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Variable Pricing and the Cost of Renewable Energy

Michael Roberts, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Imelda Imelda, University of Hawaii at Manoa;
Matthias Fripp, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Mānoa
Discussant: Anna Alberini, University of Maryland

Response to Extreme Energy Price Changes: Evidence from Ukraine

Anna Alberini, University of Maryland; Olha Khymych, Charles University Prague; Milan Scasny, Charles
University in Prague
Discussant: Damien Dussaux, MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University

The effects of energy price and carbon taxation on the French manufacturing sector

Damien Dussaux, MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University; Arlan Brucal, London School of Economics
Discussant: Carla Mendes, University of Basel

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Margaux Vinez, Paris School of Economics

Room: Handels: CG-room

Unintended consequences of conservation: estimating the causal effect of protected areas on
violence in Colombia
Julian Diaz, World Bank
Discussant: Anam Shehzadi, University of Kassel

The Relationship between Environmental Degradation, Economic Development and
Corruption: A Panel Data Cointegration Analysis of Asian Emerging and Developing Countries
Anam Shehzadi, University of Kassel; Heike Wetzel, University of Kassel
Discussant: Francois Cohen, University of Oxford

Understanding Interpersonal Violence: the Impact of Temperatures in Mexico
Francois Cohen, University of Oxford; Fidel Gonzalez, Sam Houston State University
Discussant: Margaux Vinez, Paris School of Economics

Adoption of Improved Seeds and Land Allocation, Evidence from DRC.

Margaux Vinez, Paris School of Economics; Karen Macours, PSE; Sylvie Lambert, PSE; Tanguy Bernard,
IFPRI / University of Bordeaux (France)
Discussant: Julian Diaz, World BankENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: ENERGY
Chair: Yonas Alem, University of Gothenburg

Room: Handels: F43

The Consequences of Increasing Block Tariffs on the Distribution of Residential Electricity
Subsidies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Helena Cardenas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Dale Whittington, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Dawit Guta, Addis Ababa University

Determinants of Household Adoption of Solar Energy Technology in Rural Ethiopia

Dawit Guta, Addis Ababa University
Discussant: Sied Hassen, Environment and Development Initiative; Ethiopian Development ResearchInstitute

Rural Households Concern for Environment and WTP for an Energy Efficient Technology
Sied Hassen, Environment and Development Initiative; Ethiopian Development Research Institute;Gunnar Kohlin, University of Gotheborg

Discussant: Yonas Alem, University of Gothenburg

Liquidity Constraint, LPG Stoves and Charcoal Consumption: A Randomized Controlled Trial
in Tanzania
Yonas Alem, University of Gothenburg; Remidius Ruhinduka, University of Dar es Salaam; Peter Berck,
UC Berkeley
Discussant: Helena Cardenas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: EMISSIONS TRADING
Chair: Evangelina Dardati, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Room: Handels: C33

Optimal bidding in conservation auctions when bidder costs are uncertain

Steven G. M. Schilizzi, Western Australia University; Sayed Ifekhar, University of Western Austrlia; Toto
Olita, The University of Western Australia
Discussant: Magnus Hennlock, IVL Swedish Environmental Research InstituteEmissions Trading Subject to Kantian Preferences

Magnus Hennlock, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute; Asa Löfgren, University ofGothenburg; Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg; Peter Martinsson, University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Simon Quemin, Paris-Dauphine University, CEC

Linking Permit Markets Multilaterally

Simon Quemin, Paris-Dauphine University, CEC; Luca Taschini, The Grantham Research Institute on
Climate Change, London School of Economics; Baran Doda, London School of Economics, Grantham
Research InstituteDiscussant: Evangelina Dardati, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

What is the cost of regulating the environment? Aggregate implications of cap-and-trade
programs
Evangelina Dardati, Universidad Alberto Hurtado; Meryem Saygili, University of Texas at Tyler
Discussant: Steven G. M. Schilizzi, Western Australia University

FISHERIES: POLICY TO PROTECT STOCK
Chair: Eric Nævdal, Frisch Centre

Room: Haga: B225

Do exports of renewable resources lead to resource depletion? Evidence from fisheries
Sabrina Eisenbarth, University of Oxford
Discussant: Chenyang Xu, Drew University

Team Inspections in the Common Pool Resource Management when Corruption is Present
Chenyang Xu, Drew University; Klaas van 't Veld,
Discussant: Ngoc Quach Thi Khanh, Nha Trang University

Enforcement and Corruption in Management of Protected Areas

Ngoc Quach Thi Khanh, Nha Trang University; Claire W. Armstrong, UiT The Arctic University of
NorwayDiscussant: Eric Nævdal, Frisch Centre

New Insights from the Canonical Fisheries Model
Eric Nævdal, Frisch Centre; Anders Skonhoft, NTNU
Discussant: Sabrina Eisenbarth, University of Oxford

GROWTH AND TECHNICAL CHANGE
Chair: Fabian Stöckl, DIW Berlin

Room: Haga: Dragonen

Directed Technical Change and the British Industrial Revolution

David Stern, Australian National University; Yingying Lu, CSIRO; Jack Pezzey, Australian National
University
Discussant: Gregor Singer, London School of Economics

Material efficiency and welfare losses from input misallocation in Indian iron and steel
production
Gregor Singer, London School of Economics
Discussant: Anna Stünzi, ETH Zurich

The impact of green preferences on the relevance of history versus expectations
Anna Stünzi, ETH Zurich; Andreas Schäfer, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Fabian Stöckl, DIW Berlin

Towards an Endogenous Elasticity of Input Factor Substitution in Production - New Insights
and Applications to Environmental Economics
Fabian Stöckl, DIW Berlin
Discussant: David Stern, Australian National University

POLICY SESSION: ECOSYSTEM SERVICES VALUATION AND
ACCOUNTING FOR BETTER POLICIESRoom: Handels: B23

Organizer(s): Matías Piaggio, Environment for Development - Tropical Agricultural Research andHigher Education Center (EfD - CATIE), Costa Rica; Bram Edens, United Nations Statistics Division;
Juha Siikamäki, International Union for Conservation of Nature; Alessandra Alfieri, Chief,
Environmental Economic Accounts Section Economic Statistics Branch, Statistics Division
Department of Economic and Social Affairs United Nations
Chair: Juha Siikamäki, International Union for Conservation of Nature

The CBD Aichi Targets as well as the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 call for mapping and assessing thestate of ecosystems and their services and integrating these values into accounting and reporting
systems at EU and national levels by 2020.
The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) provides an internationally agreed
statistical standard to describe the interrelationship between the economy and environment. A novel
development is the framework for ecosystem accounting (the SEEA EEA), which takes an ecosystemperspective by describing the extent and condition of ecosystems, the services they supply, and how
they benefit economic activities. The valuation of ecosystem services, ecosystem assets as well as
their degradation features prominently on the research agenda. A key challenge lies in reconciling therequirements of an accounting system with its focus on exchange values with the welfare based
environmental economics tradition of valuation of ecosystem services.
The objectives for this session are to introduce the SEEA and the research agenda for the revision of
the SEEA EEA; showcase best practices in valuation of ecosystem services; explore and solidify links
with the research communities working on ecosystem service valuation and environmental
accounting; and help build bridges that will enhance the development of ecosystem accounts for
informing policy.
Panelist(s): Bram Edens, United Nations Statistics Division;
Matías Piaggio, Environment for Development - Tropical Agricultural Research andHigher Education Center (EfD - CATIE), Costa Rica;
Jane Turpie, Environment for Development - University of Cape Town;
Irene Alvarado-Quesada, Central Bank of de Costa Rica;
Alessandra La Notte, European Commission - Joint Research Centre

POLICY SESSION: MARKET-BASED APPROACHES FORENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN ASIA

Room: Handels: SEB

Organizer(s): Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chair: Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Strong economic growth of Asia in the last decades has increased the pressure on environmental
conditions. Market-based approaches have been implemented by a number of developing countries in
Asia to increase the efficiency in environmental management. This session provides an assessment of
the use of various market-based policy instruments to address environmental problems in the areasof air, water and waste in Asian developing countries.
The session will focus on the applicability and potential to scale up various selected policy
instruments in Asian developing countries. Panelists will assess the effectiveness, efficiency, equity,and political feasibility of the instruments as well as requirements for the successful application ofeach instrument.
Panel mode: (1) each panellist presents his or her own topic in 15 minutes; and (2) Questions frommoderator/chair and from audiences.
Panelist(s): Jintao Xu, national school of development;
Nam Pham, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City;
Nils-Axel Braathen, OECD;
Gunnar Kohlin, University of Gotheborg;
David Raitzer, Economist, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department,
Asian Development BankPOLICY SESSION: POLICIES TO SHIFT URBAN
DEVELOPMENT TO MORE ENVIRONMENTALLYSUSTAINABLE PATHWAYS

Room: Handels: B44

Organizer(s): Walid Oueslati, OECD; Alexandros Dimitropoulos, OECD; Ioannis Tikoudis, OECD

Chair: Walid Oueslati, OECDTaking policy action at the urban level is pivotal for tackling major environmental problems, such as
climate change and air pollution. Cities are responsible for the majority of CO2 emissions worldwide
and are the locations where air pollution has the most important consequences for human health. The
form of urban development is a major determinant of cities environmental footprint. It determines toa large extent how urban transport and mobility patterns evolve and how car-dependent andcongested cities are. Furthermore, it is a critical factor for population exposure to air pollution,
because it essentially shapes population density and its distribution over space.
This session aims to provide an opportunity to experts to discuss different policy options to shift theform of urban development to more environmentally sustainable pathways. The session will attempt
to answer the following questions:*What are the main manifestations of currently unsustainable urban development patterns and what
are the primary drivers of these patterns?
*How do different policy instruments and policy packages to induce more environmentally
sustainable forms of urban development compare in terms of their (potential) environmental,
economic and social impacts?
*What are the key knowledge gaps in the design, implementation and evaluation of such policy
instruments and what research avenues can environmental and resource economists follow to close
these gaps?
Panelist(s): Walid Oueslati, OECD;
JunJie Wu, Oregon State University;
Antonio Bento, University of Southern California;
Fréderic Saliez, Human Settlements Officer at UN-HABITAT;
Anna Ledin, City of Gothenburg;
Alexandros Dimitropoulos, OECDPOLICY SESSION: POLITICAL ECONOMY CONSTRAINTS FORENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Room: Handels: SKF

Organizer(s): Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics
Chair: Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics

Climate change policies and in particular carbon pricing have been expanding in recent years, but
despite the growing share of emissions covered, carbon prices still tend to be too low to induce therequired large-scale decarbonization of the economy. Traditionally, economists have been obsessedwith the efficiency of policy instruments and less concerned with their political acceptability, which
they tend to leave to policy makers to sort out. This session will argue that wide adoption of
meaningful climate change policies globally - a goal shared both by environmental economists andpolicy makers - might require economists to reverse their priorities, and to focus more on
acceptability and equity issues. More precisely, the aims of the proposed Policy Session are to:middot;Examine what major issues prevent climate change policies, or some specific policy
instruments, from being implemented (such as competitiveness concerns, distributional
consequences, behavioural biases, citizens buy-in into environmental policy)

middot;Discuss possible ways forward (e.g. earmarking, household compensation, double dividend)
middot;Identify knowledge gaps and possible research avenues

Panelist(s): Cameron Hepburn, Oxford University;
Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future;Frank Convery, University College Dublin;
Aldo Ravazzi, Italian Ministry of Environment;
Per Stromberg, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency;
Martine Visser, University of Cape Town;
Ger Klaassen, European Commission

POLICY SESSION: THE FUTURE ROLE OF BIOFUELS IN
TRANSPORT FOR REACHING GLOBAL CLIMATE TARGETS
Organizer(s): Rolf Golombek, Frisch Centre

Room: Handels: E 44/GBJroom

Chair: Mads Greaker, Statistics Norway

Key questions to be discussed in this policy session:

bull;Is there still a future role for first-generation biofuels? Do the current sustainability certification
schemes deliver as promised?
bull;Could cellulosic biofuels and use of degraded land avoid the competition with food productionand eliminate the negative effects of direct and indirect land use change?
bull;Is there a potential for scaling up the use of forest biomass, and at what time scales could we
expect climate benefits?

bull;For what modes of transport is the prospects for biofuels most promising? Are current policies inline with this?
bull;How should biofuels policies be designed to cope with both need for technological development
and the danger of creating carbon debt?
Panelist(s): Timothy Searchinger, Princeton University;
Hugo Valin, IIASA;
Bjart Holtsmark, Statistics Norway;
Arne Lind, IFE;
Ronald Steenblik, OECD;
Mads Greaker, Statistics Norway

POLICY SESSION: THE TRAGEDY OF THE HORIZON: A
MANDATE FOR FINANCIAL SECTOR REGULATIONS?

Room: Handels: E43

Organizer(s): Ulf Moslener, Frankfurt School of Finance Managment; Oliver Schenker, Frankfurt
School of Finance Managment; Ashish Tyagi, Frankfurt School of Finance Management
Chair: Ulf Moslener, Frankfurt School of Finance Managment

Given these pressing and ambitious investment demands, concerns have been raised on the ability of
the financial sector to provide and allocate the necessary capital efficiently. This is particularly
important for many low carbon technologies such as renewable energy generation which arecharacterized by relatively high capital demand. Even with a credible pricing of carbon externalities,
financial markets may face barriers in its task to allocate capital efficiently to low-carbon projects.
Investors may face difficulties to infer ex-ante the profitability of low carbon investment projects,
either due to agency problems or because of the risks and uncertainties that are inherent to theselong term projects. Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, called this the ”tragedy of thehorizon”. Thus, incentives of investors might be misaligned with policy goals such as the 2 degree
target of the Paris Agreement. This raises the concern that financial markets underprice the risk
associated with the transition to a low-carbon economy, which can even lead to a ”carbon bubble”
and ”stranded assets” with current investments turning unprofitable in a low-carbon policy
environment.
Panelist(s): Ulf Moslener, Frankfurt School of Finance Managment;
Jean Boissinot, Direction générale du Trésor (French Treasury);Mats Andersson, Global Challenges Foundation;
Dirk Schoenmaker, Rotterdam School of Management;
Sandra Batten, Bank of England

POLICY SESSION: TRADE AND CLIMATE POLICIES IN THE
CONTEXT OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT

Room: Handels: Volvo

Organizer(s): ZhongXiang Zhang, Tianjin University; Ma Yinchu, School of Economics, Tianjin
University, Tianjin, China; Director, China Academy of Energy, Environmental and Industrial
Economics
Chair: ZhongXiang Zhang, Tianjin University

The Paris Agreement is built on a bottom-up approach. This decentralized nature of the climateagreement means that countries have considerable flexibility in determining their own climate
targets and instruments incorporated in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Moreover,under the Paris Agreement, countries will be mandated to submit an updated NDCs every five years,
with parties expected to progress in the levels of ambition in each round in line with their national
circumstances. In order to meet their existing and future targets with minimum adverse effects on
their own, countries with differentiated legal and political systems are highly likely to pursue wideranging climate-related policies. This will increase interactions between the climate and trade
regimes, likely generating increasing spillover effects on trade and in some cases testing the limits oftrade rules.
To enhance synergies between the climate change and trade regimes, this policy session will address
issues that include but are not limited to: climate change and international trade regulation; thecontribution of trade agreements to climate governance; trade elements in countries climate
contributions; climate contribution of the environmental goods agreement; carbon leakage andborder adjustment measures; inclusion of consumption of carbon intensive materials in carbon
pricing; climate clubs at the intersection of pricing, technology investment and trade; strategic
subsidies for renewable energy technologies; and WTO perspective for climate-related policies. Thissession will provide the audience with (a) a very informed and focused insights into trade and climatechange policies, and (b) an opportunity to engage in the debate.
Panelist(s): Scott Barrett, Columbia University;
Jos Delbeke, European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission;

Ingrid Jegou, Senior Adviser, 2050, Stockholm;
Jean-Frédéric Morin, Canada Research Chair in International Political Economy,
University of Laval, Québec;
Karsten Neuhoff, DIW Berlin

RENEWABLE ENERGY: POLICY MODELLING
Chair: Hidemichi Yonezawa, ETH Zurich

Room: Haga: B210

The Economics of Renewable Energy Support
Sebastian Rausch, ETH Zurich; Jan Abrell, Centre for Energy Policy and Economice (CEPE), ETH Zurich;
Clemens Streitberger, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Keith Williges, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change

Using carbon revenues to support renewable energy: how this can reduce the benefit ofexemption rules for energy-intensive sectors.

Claire Gavard, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW); Sebastian Voigt, Centre for European
Economic Research (ZEW); Aurélien Genty, DG GROW, European Commission
Discussant: Keith Williges, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change

Economy-wide effects of the Austrian Green Electricity Act: A computable generalequilibrium evaluation

Keith Williges, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change; Jana Vass, University of Graz; Jakob
Sporer, University of Graz
Discussant: Hidemichi Yonezawa, ETH ZurichIntergenerational Preferences for Renewable Energy Subsidies
Sebastian Rausch, ETH Zurich; Hidemichi Yonezawa, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Clemens Streitberger, ETH Zurich

THEMATIC SESSION: COOKING ENERGY TRANSITIONS AND
THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH IMPACTS

Room: Handels: Malmsten

Organizer(s): Katherine Dickinson, Colorado School of Public Health
Chair: Katherine Dickinson, Colorado School of Public Health

Nearly 40% of the worlds population relies on biomass (e.g., wood, charcoal) to meet their daily
cooking needs, with far-reaching impacts on household air quality and respiratory health, time use
and gender dynamics, deforestation, and regional to global climate. Transitioning to cleaner cooking
solutions is a policy priority, yet progress has been slow in many regions.
The papers in this session illustrate the contributions that environmental economics is making to thispressing challenge. Specifically, these papers study cooking energy transitions and their impacts in
Africa and South Asia. The studies use a combination of experimental and quasi-experimental
approaches, as well as innovative and interdisciplinary data sources. They examine determinants ofhousehold fuel and technology choices, including peer effects and gender dynamics, and the impactsof these choices on environmental and health outcomes, including household air quality, personal
exposures, and health endpoints like blood pressure and shortness of breath. In this session,presenters will draw on their results and collective experience in this sector to reflect on the role ofenvironmental economics in understanding and tackling the household energy challenge, including
successes, failures, and future directions.

Prices, Peers, and Perceptions: Field experiments on improved cookstove adoption in Ghana
Katherine Dickinson, Colorado School of Public Health; Zachary Brown, North Carolina State
University; Maxwell Dalaba, Navrongo Health Research Center; Rex Alirigia, University of Colorado
Boulder; Evan Coffey, University of Colorado Boulder; Elise Mesenbring, University of Colorado Boulder;
Desmond Agao, Navrongo Health Research Center; Michael Hannigan, University of Colorado Boulder;
Abraham Oduro, Navrongo Health Research Center

Effects of information on energy related choices: Experimental evidence from rural Uttar
Pradesh and Kerala
P.P. Krishnapriya, Indian Statistical Institute; Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics

LPG Adoption in Rural Communities of South India

Robert Bailis, Stockholm Environment Institute; Puneet Dwivedi, University of Georgia; Andrew
Grieshop, North Carolina State University; Abhishek Kar, University of British Colombia; Julian Marshall,
University of Washington; Hisham Zerriffi, University of British Colombia

Early adoption of an improved household energy system in urban Rwanda

Pamela Jagger, University of North Carolina; Ipsita Das, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Sudhanshu Handa, University of North Carolina; Leena A. Nylander-French, University of North Carolina;
Karin Yeatts, University of North Carolina

THEMATIC SESSION: FORTHCOMING JAERE PAPERS ON AIRQUALITY REGULATION

Room: Handels: E45

Organizer(s): Don Fullerton, University of Illinois
Chair: James Archsmith, University of Maryland

The control and reduction of air pollution are among the most important functions of modern
governments. Required abatement imposes costs on firms and consumers that are important toestimate carefully, and it provides important benefits to health and productivity. It also has otherindirect effects on incentives, prices, activity in various sectors, technology, and consumer welfare.
This session will present four papers on these topics that are forthcoming in the Journal of the
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE). Among other aspects of air quality
regulations, these papers study the impacts on total jobs, and on green jobs, but especially on jobs
related to technical and engineering tasks. They include some focus on the effects of these regulations
on power plant employment, on electricity generation, and on technical change. They calculate
welfare gains from emissions trading at a single price compared to differentiated prices withuncertainty. And they study the effects of air pollution exposure on work performance.

Market-based emissions regulation when damages vary across sources: What are the gains
from differentiation?
Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley; Nicholas Muller, Carnegie Mellon University

Environmental regulation and green skills: An empirical exploration

Giovanni Marin, University of Urbino 'Carlo Bo'; Francesco Vona, OFCE-Sciennces Po; Davide Consoli,

Ingenio CSIC-UPV, Spain; David Popp, Syracuse University

How did air quality standards affect employment at US power plants? The importance oftiming, geography, and stringency
Ann Ferris, U.S. EPA; Ron Shadbegian, U.S. EPA; Glenn Sheriff, Arizona State University

Air Quality and Error Quantity: Pollution and Performance in a High-skilled, Quality-focused
Occupation
Anthony Heyes, University of Ottawa; Soodeh Saberian, University of Ottawa; James Archsmith,
University of Maryland

THEMATIC SESSION: LAND TRANSPORT AND SUSTAINABLE
MOBILITY

Room: Handels: B32

Organizer(s): Jean-Pierre Ponssard, CNRS
Chair: Jean-Pierre Ponssard, CNRSLand transport is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions (approximately 24 % for the EU28).
Urban pollution, in particular particulate matter (PM2.5) and ground level ozone, is causing 3 millions
of premature deaths yearly. Not to mention problems arising from congestion (loss of time andmoney, accidents, noise, pollution, etc.). Due to the increasing demand for transport and the intensive
use of fossil fuels these issues require urgent public policies.
This session will focus on the impact of driving restrictions, urban tolls and subsidies for zero
emission vehicles at national levels and at the level of the major metropolises. Theoretical andempirical analysis are welcome.

The Geneva congestion charge: rationale, design, and acceptability
Stefano Carattini, Yale University

Efficiency and distributional implications of combining road pricing and driving restrictions
Juan Pablo Montero, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Chile

Transportation Policies and Equilibrium Sorting: Evidence from Beijing
Shanjun Li,

Optimal Policy and Network Effects for the Deployment of Zero Emission Vehicles
Guy Meunier, INRATHEMATIC SESSION: OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES OFENVIRONMENTAL NGOS

Room: Handels: B33

Organizer(s): Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, PSE, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Chair: Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, PSE, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

Green Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) now constitute prominent levers for transforming
markets, society and public policies. They are central actors of policy-making processes as well asinitiators of public debates about the needs of environmental policies. They play a critical role inpublic politics by providing people with information about the environmental state of the world,bringing social and environmental issues to public awareness, and mobilizing support for politicalaction on these issues. They also strongly influence corporate incentives to self-regulate.
Understanding their role and their power to change firms and market structures is crucial.
This thematic session provides complementary analysis of these interactions and contributes toconstructing a theory of environmental NGO behaviour. It highlights the complementarity of NGO
strategies with public policy, the role of informal regulatory pressure jointly produced bygovernmental and non-governmental actors, and their power to influence both the firms
environmental behaviour and the market structure.

Component-free strategy of firms under pressure from the NGOs

Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, PSE, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne; Dorothée Brécard, Universitéde Toulon, LEAD

Linking Public and Private Politics: NGO Strategies for Industry Transformation
Thomas Lyon, University of Michigan; Steve Salant, University of Michigan

The Optimal NGO Chief: Strategic Delegation in Social Advocacy

Anthony Heyes, University of London; Marcel Oestreich, Brock University

TROPICAL FORESTS AND DEFORESTATION
Chair: Ariaster Chimeli, University of São PauloRoom: Handels: F44

Agricultural Development and Efforts to Prevent Deforestation in the Amazon

Suhyun Jung, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources Environment; Steve Polasky,
Unviersity of Minnesota
Discussant: Karlygash Kuralbayeva, LSE

Environmental regulation and commodity prices: evidence from deforestation in Brazil

Karlygash Kuralbayeva, LSE
Discussant: Nicolas Koch, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)

Agricultural Productivity and Forest Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

Nicolas Koch, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC); Erasmus
K.H.J. zu Ermgassen, University of Cambridge; Johanna Wehkamp, Mercator Research Institute on Global
Commons and Climate Change (MCC); Francisco Oliveira, University of Cambridge; Gregor Schwerhoff,
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
Discussant: Ariaster Chimeli, University of São Paulo

Protecting the rainforest? The case of mahogany prohibition and deforestation.

Ariaster Chimeli, University of São Paulo; Rodrigo Soares, Columbia University
Discussant: Suhyun Jung, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources Environment

Coffee break

Wednesday, 10.15-10.45

AwardsWednesday, 10.45-11.15- European Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental Economics

Room: Handels / Haga

Room: Smyrna- European Practitioner Achievement Award in Applying Environmental Economics

Plenary session
PLENARYDavid Hendry: Climate Econometrics

Wednesday, 11.15-00.15
Room: Smyrna

Chair: Måns Söderbom

CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution have been primarily
anthropogenic. While the climate responses to anthropogenic emissions are governed by a range ofphysical processes, often modelled in process-based numerical models, alternative empirically-basedmodelling approaches can provide corroboration and assist communication. Further, the interaction ofclimate with socio-economic aspects inevitably requires empirical evidence. Consequently, Climate
Econometrics has emerged as a field using empirical methods to disentangle complex relationships
between human actions and climate responses and their associated economic effects.

The talk will explain how we model the non-stationary climate and economic time series involved, whichhave both stochastic trends and distributional shifts, using cointegration to tackle stochastic trends, andindicator saturation to tackle (often unexpected) distributional shiftsfrom volcanic eruptions to policy
interventions. The main tools are [a] a new approach to model selection which retains any theory
information while selecting over potential rival candidate variables, and can handle more variables, N,
than observations, T, by expanding and contracting multi-path block searches; and [b] indicatorsaturation, which includes as many indicators as observations in the candidate set, designed for a rangeof potential contaminations, including outliers (impulse-indicator saturation, IIS), location shifts (stepindicator saturation, SIS), both (IIS+SIS), changes in model parameters (multiple-indicator saturation,
MIS), and (e.g.) indicators for volcanic impacts on temperatures (VIS). Despite N>T (often several fold),
research has established that the costs of selection are small relative to other likely problems of misspecification, and such methods are applicable to panels, possibly with a spatial dimension.
As a live illustration, I explain the formulation, selection, evaluation and forecasting for an econometricmodel of the UK’s highly non-stationary CO2 emissions over the last 150 years. Many major shifts andoutliers require to be handled to develop a viable model. The empirical analysis confirms the key roles ofcoal use and of the capital stock, which embodies the vintage of technology at its construction. Following
the Climate Change Act of 2008, the UK’s CO2 emissions per capita are already below 1860s levels, yet
this large reduction has come with little aggregate economic cost.

Poster session
POSTER SESSION

Wednesday, 12.15-13.45

Chair: Gengyang TU, Grenoble School of Management

Room: Handels: C34“Comply or Explain” Type Meta-regulation as an Alternative of Conventional Regulation

Takuro Miyamoto, Tohoku Gakuin University; Ryo Ishida, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of FinanceJapan

Addressing the institutional challenges of groundwater management in semi-arid areas with
rapid urbanization – Results of a Framed Field Experiment
Johannes Wegmann, University of Goettingen; Oliver Mußhoff, Georg-August-University Göttingen

An economic comparison of adaptation strategies towards a drought-induced risk of forest
decline: financial vs. carbon balance
Sandrine Brèteau-Amores, Bureau for Economic Theory and Applications BETA (INRA); Marielle
Brunette, INRA; Hendrik Davi, Écologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes (INRA)

Are households' residential preferences consistent with biodiversity potential of different
urban contexts?
Gengyang TU, Grenoble School of Management; Camille Regnier, Université de Bourgogne-FrancheComté; Mohamed Hilal, INRA; Sophie Legras, INRA; Cecile Detang-dessendre, INRA

The value of wild pollination services to crop productivity: What does gender of thesmallholder farmer got to do with it?

Byela Tibesigwa, Environment for Development (EfD), University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Juha
Siikamäki, International Union for Conservation of Nature; Razack Lokina, University of Dar es Saalam;
Jessica Alvsilver, EPA

Bioenergy Prospects in Mexico: Biorefineries at the West Region
Hector Nuñez, CIDE

Flood risk perception and housing prices. A hedonic analysis for Boulder County, Colorado

Hannah Hennighausen, University of Graz / Wegener Center; Jordan Suter, Colorado State University

Green Nudge in Practice: Application to Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)

Catherine Boulatoff, Dalhousie University; Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dalhousie University, IZA and HICN

Green, yellow or red lemons? An experiment on the perception of houses energy labels.
Edouard Civel, Paris-Nanterre University; Nathaly Cruz, Paris-Nanterre University

Household Electricity Demand Under Mixed Price System
YANG ZHOU, Fudan university

Insurance and forest rotation decisions under storm risk

Marielle Brunette, INRA; Stéphane COUTURE, INRA MIAT; Patrice Loisel, MISTEAInternational Environmental Agreements Under an Evolutionary Mechanism of Imitation
and Asymmetric Countries
Hsiao-Chi CHEN, Dept. of Economics, National Taipei University; Yunshyong Chow, Institute ofMathematics, Academia Sinica; Shi-Miin Liu, National Taipei University

Investigating the preferences of remote beneficiaries for sustainable tourism development:
the case of Fiji
Gaetano Grilli, Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science - Cefas

Land Resource Utilization System and Risk-coping Strategies on the Mongolian Plateau

Shunji Oniki, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences; Kadirbyek Dagys,
Mongolian University of Life Sciences; Fulin Du, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University; Gensuo B, Inner
Mongolia Agricultural University

Market-level implications of regulating forest carbon storage and albedo for climate change
mitigation
Aapo Rautiainen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke); Jussi Lintunen, Natural Resources
Institute Finland (Luke); Jussi Uusivuori, Natural Resources Institute Finland

Migrant remittances can reduce the potential of forest transitions

Daniel Ospina, Stockholm University; Garry Peterson, Stockholm university; Anne-Sophie Crepin, Beijer
Institute of Ecological Economics

Optimal energy mix under uncertainty for Ghana

MICHAEL OWUSU APPIAH, City University of Hong Kong

Reallocating Water along a River: A Multilateral Bargaining Experiment with a Veto Player
Zhi Li, Xiamen University; Xin Zhang, Xiamen University; Wenchao Xu, Xiamen University

Repeated Conservation Auctions and the (In)efficiency of Withholding Information

Greg Smith, LEEP, University of Exeter; Brett Day, LEEP, University of Exeter; Amy Binner, University of
ExeterSubjective well-being, energy poverty and the combination of objective and subjective
indicators
Rinaldo Brau, University of Cagliari; Erica Delugas, University of Cagliari

The effects of forest change on agricultural productivity: Evidence from Indonesia

Yuki Yamamoto, Nagasaki University; Yuichi Ishimura, Osaka International University; Yosuke
Shigetomi, Nagasaki University; Mitsuru Hattori, Nagasaki University

The effects of migration and pollution externality on cognitive skills in Caribbean SIDS: a
Theoretical analysis

Lesly Cassin, Université Paris Nanterre

The Impact of the Crisis-Induced Reduction in Air Pollution on Infant Mortality in India: A
Policy Perspective
Olexiy Kyrychenko, CERGE-EIThe Stick and the Carrot: Explaining the decision to participate in the Water Producer
Programme (Brazil)

Leidimari Neves do Prado, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) - France; Serge
Garcia, Bureau for Economic Theory and Applications (BETA); Pablo Andrés-Domenech, AgroParisTech

Value of Statistical Life connected with seismic risk. Empirical evidence from Italy

Andrea Rampa, IRCrES-CNR; Massimilano Mazzanti, University of Ferrara; Anna Montini, Università di
Bologna; Nicolò Barbieri, University of Ferrara

A panel analysis on the relationship between urbanization, economic growth and the waterfor-energy nexus in China
Yu Jiang, Wageningen University Research; Xiawei Liao, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford
University; Jing Zhang, Department of Economics, Konkuk University

LunchMEETINGSEAAERE General Assembly (Room: C33)

EAERE Annual General Assembly of Members (Room: D33)
AERE Members Lunch (Room: Kafé Haga)

Wednesday, 12.15-13.45
Room: Handels / Haga

Parallell sessions 5
Wednesday June 27, 13.45-15.30

Parallel session 5

Wednesday, 13.45-15.30

AGRICULTURE AND WATER MANAGEMENT

Room: Handels: F45

Chair: Simon de Bonviller, University of Strasbourg

Developing improved methods for identifying the cost-efficient abatement set in the water
protection of the Baltic Sea region
Janne Helin, Natural Resources Insitute Finland
Discussant: Mikael Skou Andersen, Aarhus University (DK)

Catchment specific indicators of economic benefits when reducing nitrogen leaching fromfertilizers to surface waters

Mikael Skou Andersen, Aarhus University (DK); Gregor Levin, Aarhus University; Mette Vestergaard
Odgaard, Aarhus University
Discussant: Kelly Jones, Colorado State University

An integrated modeling and evaluation of the impact of payments for watershed services on
ecosystem services outcomes
Kelly Jones, Colorado State University
Discussant: Simon de Bonviller, University of Strasbourg

Insider Trading? The case of the Goulburn water allocation market in the Murray-Darling
Basin, Australia

Simon de Bonviller, University of Strasbourg; Sarah Ann Wheeler, GFAR Center, University of Adelaide;
Alec Zuo, GFAR Center, University of Adelaide
Discussant: Janne Helin, Natural Resources Insitute Finland

CLIMATE POLICY

Chair: Tobias Pfrommer, Heidelberg University

Room: Handels: Malmsten

Climate financial bubbles: How market sentiments shape the transition to low-carbon capital

Emanuele Campiglio, Vienna University of Economics and Business; Antoine Godin, Agence Française deDéveloppement; Eric Kemp-Benedict, Stockholm Environment InstituteDiscussant: Nils Ohlendorf, MCC Berlin

Distributional Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies - a Meta-Analysis

Nils Ohlendorf, MCC Berlin; Michael Jakob, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate
Change; Jan Steckel, MCC Berlin; Jan Minx, MCC Berlin; Carsten Schröder, DIW Berlin
Discussant: Steven Sexton, Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy

Model Uncertainty and the Effect of Climate Change on Aggregate GDP

Steven Sexton, Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy; Richard Newell, Resources for the
Future; Brian Prest, Duke University
Discussant: Tobias Pfrommer, Heidelberg University

A Simple Model to Account for Diverging Regional Climate Preferences in the Assessment of
Solar Radiation Management
Tobias Pfrommer, Heidelberg University
Discussant: Antoine Godin, Agence Française de Développement

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND BIODIVERSITY II
Chair: Karl Steininger, University of Graz

Room: Handels: F44

Welfare and Biodiversity Tradeoffs in Urban Open Space Protection

Liaila Tajibaeva, Augsburg University; Robert Haight, USDA Forest Service; Steve Polasky, Unviersity of
Minnesota
Discussant: Alan Randall, Ohio State University

Governance Regimes and the Production and Value of Forest Ecosystem Services in Vietnam
Alan Randall, Ohio State University; Tiho Ancev, University of Sydney; Nguyen Minh Duc, Vietnam
National University of Agriculture
Discussant: Andy Choi, National Institute of Ecology

The spatially explicit amenity value of urban greenspaces in Seoul: A choice experimentapproach

Andy Choi, National Institute of Ecology; Seung Gyu Kim, Kyungpook National University; Y.S. Eom, Chon
Buk National University
Discussant: Karl Steininger, University of Graz

Spring frost risk for regional fruit production under a warmer climate

Karl Steininger, University of Graz; Christian Unterberger, University of Graz; Lukas Brunner, Universityof Graz; Stefan Nabernegg, University of Graz; Andrea Steiner, University of Graz; Edith Stabentheiner,
University of Graz; Stephan Monschein, University of Graz; Heimo Truhetz, University of Graz
Discussant: Liaila Tajibaeva, Augsburg University

ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY: DEMAND AND SUPPLY SIDE
ISSUES FOR FOSSIL FUELS

Room: Handels: C33

Chair: Andrew Leach, University of Alberta

Competition and Regulation as a Means of Reducing CO2 Emissions: Experience from U.S.
Fossil Fuel Power Plants
Christian Growitsch, Center for Economics of Materials, Fraunhofer IMWS; Simon Paulus, Institute ofEnergy Economics, University of Cologne, Germany; Heike Wetzel, University of Kassel
Discussant: Thomas Eichner, University of Hagen

Supply-side climate policy: on the role of exploration and asymmetric information
Thomas Eichner, University of Hagen; Ruediger Pethig, University of Siegen
Discussant: Mark Schopf, University of Hagen

Buying versus leasing fuel deposits for preservation

Mark Schopf, University of Hagen; Thomas Eichner, University of Hagen; Gilbert Kollenbach, Universityof HagenDiscussant: Andrew Leach, University of Alberta

Carbon pricing, resource royalties, and emissions

Andrew Leach, University of Alberta; Chuck Mason, University of Wyoming; Branko Boskovic, Universityof Alberta
Discussant: Heike Wetzel, University of Kassel

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: WATER
Chair: Georg Meran, Technical University Berlin

Room: Handels: F43

Opening the ‘black-box’ of a water and sanitation intervention

Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, National University of Singapore; Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University
Discussant: David Fuente, University of South Carolina

ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF ALTERNATIVE WATER AND SANITATION TARIFFS: THE
CASE OF NAIROBI, KENYADavid Fuente, University of South Carolina; Jane Mariara, PEP; Peter Kimuyu, University of Nairobi;
Mbutu Mwaura, Nairobi City Water and Sewer Co., LTD; Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Discussant: Yazhen Gong, Renmin University

Roads and Resources: Groundwater Depletion in the North China Plains

Martino Pelli, University of Sherbrooke; Ujjayant Chakravorty, Tufts University; Yazhen Gong, Renmin
University; Qian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiangzheng Deng, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Discussant: Georg Meran, Technical University Berlin

Pipes, Taps and Vendors: Managing and Regulating the Unconnected Water Market

Georg Meran, Technical University Berlin; Markus Siehlow, Technical University Berlin; Christian vonHirschhausen, DIW Berlin / TU Berlin
Discussant: Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, National University of Singapore

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: CARBON PRICING
Chair: Lucia Rotaris, University of Trieste (Italy)

Room: Handels: D33

Strategic Environmental Policy under Emissions Leakage and Firm Mobility

Robert Schmidt, TU Kaiserslautern; Philipp Richter, TU Dresden; Marco Runkel, TU Berlin
Discussant: Olga Chiappinelli, DIW Berlin

Time-consistent carbon pricing

Olga Chiappinelli, DIW Berlin; Karsten Neuhoff, DIW Berlin
Discussant: Joern Richstein, DIW Berlin

Project-Based Carbon Contracts: A Way to Finance Innovative Low-Carbon Investments
Joern Richstein, DIW Berlin
Discussant: Lucia Rotaris, University of Trieste (Italy)

The willingness to pay for a carbon tax in Italy

Lucia Rotaris, University of Trieste (Italy); Romeo Danielis, University of Trieste
Discussant: Robert Schmidt, TU Kaiserslautern

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: IMPACT

Room: Handels: C24

Chair: APARAJITA SINGH, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India

Fighting Climate Change with Disclosure? The Real Effects of Mandatory Greenhouse Gas
Emission Disclosure

Aleksandar Zaklan, DIW Berlin; Jürgen Ernstberger, TU Munich; Hannes Rettenbacher, TU Munich;Sebastian Schwenen, TU Munich
Discussant: Jan Abrell, Centre for Energy Policy and Economice (CEPE), ETH Zurich

Impacts of the UK Carbon Price Floor: A Machine Learning Approach

Jan Abrell, Centre for Energy Policy and Economice (CEPE), ETH Zurich; Mirjam Kosch, ETH Zurich;Sebastian Rausch, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Thomas Lyon, University of Michigan

DO FOR-PROFIT FIRMS DEGRADE QUALITY?: EVIDENCE FROM DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS IN
THE U.S.
Thomas Lyon, University of Michigan; Wren Montgomery, Ivey School of Business; Dan Zhao, Universityof Michigan
Discussant: APARAJITA SINGH, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India

Technical Efficiency in Indian Leather Industry: A Pre-cursor to achieve Sustainable
Development

APARAJITA SINGH, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India; Haripriya Gundimeda,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Discussant: Aleksandar Zaklan, DIW Berlin

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: REGULATION

Chair: Carmen Arguedas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Room: Handels: D32

On the Regulatory Problem of Limiting Growth When Production is Highly Profitable
Atle Oglend, University of Stavanger
Discussant: Guojun He, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Environmental Regulation and Firm Productivity in China: Estimates from a Regression
Discontinuity Design
Shaoda Wang, University of California, Berkeley; Guojun He, Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology; Bing Zhang, Nanjing University
Discussant: Pedro Guimaraes Naso, Graduate Institute of Geneva

The Porter Hypothesis Goes to China: Spatial Development, Environmental Regulation and
Productivity

Pedro Guimaraes Naso, Graduate Institute of Geneva; Timothy Swanson, Graduate Institute of Geneva;
Huang Yi, Graduate Institute of Geneva

Discussant: Carmen Arguedas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Enforcing Regulatory Standards in Stock Pollution Problems

Carmen Arguedas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Francisco Cabo, Universidad de Valladolid;
Guiomar Martin-Herran, Universidad de Valladolid
Discussant: Atle Oglend, University of Stavanger

FORESTS AND FOREST VALUES

Room: B228

Chair: Luat Do, Environment for Development in Vietnam (EfD_Vietnam)

Valuing non-market private amenities in Mediterranean forests: a contingent valuation
application in Andalucía, Spain

José L. Oviedo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Pablo Campos, Spanish National
Research Council (CSIC)-Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP); Alejandro Caparros, CSIC
Discussant: Blair Logan, Northern Economics

Economics of boreal conifer species in continuous cover and rotation forestry

Vesa-Pekka Parkatti, University of Helsinki; Aino Assmuth, University of Helsinki; Janne Rämö,
University of Helsinki; Olli Tahvonen, University of Helsinki
Discussant: Luat Do, Environment for Development in Vietnam (EfD_Vietnam)

The Economic Impacts of Forest Pathogens in Washington State: A Hedonic Approach
Toni Sipic, Central Washington University; Blair Logan, Northern Economics
Discussant: Vesa-Pekka Parkatti, University of Helsinki

Mangrove forests and Aquaculture in the Mekong River Delta

Luat Do, Environment for Development in Vietnam (EfD_Vietnam); Thuy Truong, University of
Economics Ho Chi Minh City
Discussant: José L. Oviedo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)GROWTH AND TECHNICAL CHANGE

Chair: Julien Wolfersberger, AgroParisTech

Room: Haga: B210

Dirty Asset Stranding, Clean Capital Accumulation, and Transition to Green Growth

Wei Jin, University of New South Wales; Alan Woodland, School of Economics, University of New South
Wales
Discussant: Patrick Tomberger, World Trade Institute, University of Bern

Economic Growth and Methane Emissions in the Context of Globalization

Joseph Francois, University of Bern; Doris Oberdabernig, World Trade Institute; Octavio FernándezAmador, World Trade Institute; Patrick Tomberger, World Trade Institute, University of Bern
Discussant: Adam Lampert, Arizona State University

Over-exploitation of natural resources is followed by an inevitable decline in economic
growth and discountAdam Lampert, Arizona State University

Discussant: Julien Wolfersberger, AgroParisTech

Structural transformation and the environment: the composition effect
Julien Wolfersberger, AgroParisTech
Discussant: Wei Jin, University of New South Wales

INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

Room: Handels: C22

Chair: Elisabeth Isaksen, London School of Economics

International Environmental Agreements - Stability with Transfers among HeterogeneousCountries
Eftichios Sartzetakis, University of Macedonia; Stefania Strantza, Concordia University; Effrosyni
Diamantoudi, Concordia University
Discussant: Jorge H Garcia, Los Andes

Negative Leakage: The Key Role of Forest Management Regimes

Jorge H Garcia, Los Andes; Anton Orlov, Cicero; Asbjørn Aaheim, Cicero
Discussant: Astrid Dannenberg, University of Kassel

Coercive Trade Agreements for Supplying Global Public Goods

Astrid Dannenberg, University of Kassel; Scott Barrett, Columbia University
Discussant: Elisabeth Isaksen, London School of Economics

Have international pollution protocols made a difference?
Elisabeth Isaksen, London School of Economics
Discussant: Eftichios Sartzetakis, University of Macedonia

POLICY SESSION: BEST PRACTICES AND POLICYREQUIREMENTS TO ACHIEVE CIRCULAR ECONOMYOBJECTIVES

Room: Handels: E 44/GBJroom

Organizer(s): Green Budget Europe and the Finnish Innovation Fund (Sitra),Chair: Janez Potocnik, UNEP International Resource Panel - IRP

Many countries have pledged to promote circular economy objectives and to aim for a low-carbon
and resource-efficient economy. However, much remains to be done as current policies do notprovide the necessary framework for a decisive, systemic change that this would require. There is aneed for an exchange of best practices to learn from each others experiences in order to formulate thenecessary regulatory and economic measures to achieve these objectives.
In view of the wide scope of the topic, GBE and Sitra have gathered a number of specialists from theinternational community to discuss the challenges lying ahead and how they could be overcome.
Matti Kahra will introduce the extensive work that Sitra has done so far in Finland in the field of
circular economy. Sarianne Tikkanen will present preliminary results from a European project, whichaims to provide recommendations on best practices that could be introduced in the Finnish context topromote circular economy objectives. Susanne Aakerfeldt will discuss Swedish experiences inpromoting circular economy objectives. Aldo Ravazzi-Douvan will give an overview on the potential
and use of market-based instruments at international level to enhance environmental sustainability.

Paul Ekins will provide an outlook on current experiences and main challenges in introducing circular
economy measures in Europe.
Panelist(s): Susanne Aakerfeldt, Ministry of Finance (Sweden);
Aldo Ravazzi Douvan, Italian Ministry of Environment - Sogesid AT - University Luiss
Roma;
Sarianne Tikkanen, Green Budget Europe;
Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources;
Matti Kahra, Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra;
Janez Potocnik, UNEP International Resource Panel - IRP

POLICY SESSION: CONNECTING POLICY AND RESEARCH FOR
A SUCCESSFUL LOW-CARBON TRANSITION

Room: Handels: SKF

Organizer(s): Florens Flues, OECD; Luisa Dressler, OECD
Chair: Kurt Van Dender, OECD

Reducing the risks of climate change and transitioning to a low-carbon growth path requires lowcarbon investment at an unprecedented scale. Both researchers and policy makers are actively
looking for the right policy designs, including keystone policies such as carbon pricing and other fiscal
policies, to efficiently encourage the necessary investments. However, priorities and constraints may
differ across both communities. This policy session investigates ways to improve connections
between policy and research agendas for effective and efficient policy design. How to strengthen
dialogues between policy making and research? What are the success factors that enable a fruitfulexchange? The session brings together key players from research, government, policy institutions andthe private sector to discuss the policy designs needed to enable low-carbon investment as well as thedemand for research that comes with it.
Panelist(s): Andreas Loeschel, University of Muenster;Henrik Hammar, Swedish Ministry of Finance;
Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley;
Anne C. Bolle, Statkraft

POLICY SESSION: COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS AND THE
ENVIRONMENT

Room: Handels: B33

Organizer(s): Nils-Axel Braathen, OECD
Chair: Nils-Axel Braathen, OECD

This presentation will give an overview of the new OECD publication titled Cost-Benefit Analysis andthe Environment: Further Developments and Policy Use focusing in particular on the most policyrelevant issues and on thepolitical economy of the use of CBA.
This presentation will present the discussion of the social cost of carbon and discounting in costbenefit analyses in the new OECD book on Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment.
Panelist(s): Giles Atkinson, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE);
Ben Groom, London School of Economics;
Susana Escaria, Ministry of Environment;

Sibylle Anwander, Federal Ministry of Environment;
Nils-Axel Braathen, OECDPOLICY SESSION: MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE OF THE
ENERGY TRANSITION: EUROPEAN UNION, GERMANY,FRANCE, CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES

Room: Handels: E43

Organizer(s): Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, University of Pittsburgh; Karen Pittel, ETH Zurich
Chair: Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, University of Pittsburgh

This policy session brings together five energy scholars who are involved in policy advising and innational and international policy debates on the energy transition in the European Union, Germany,
France, China and the US. We focus on multilevel governance aspects of the energy transition. State orprovincial governments operate with some autonomy in their energy pursuits and these policies
interact with those of local governments, national governments, and in the case of European
countries, the supranational EU. This governance structure, with sufficient powers at the state andlocal powers allow for policy innovations tailored to local conditions and decentralized schemes that
benefit households and communities, thereby winning their political buy-in. However, greater
coordination across these government levels to streamline policies can enhance their effectiveness. At
the same time, the multilevel governance structure creates windows of opportunities for renewables
to advance when fossil fuel incumbents block national level policies.
The session focuses on recent efforts to enhance efficiencies in renewable energy adoption throughcoordination across multiple governance levels in the EU by means of the recently proposed Energy
Union Governance system, in Germany, France, and China, and on how decentralized efforts at thestate-level in the US had enabled renewable energy adoption to forge ahead in the US despite barriers
at the federal level. Our focus on governance is in line with environmental and resource economists
attention to the institutional framework, the reality within which economic instruments and policies
need to be designed if they are to succeed (Ostrom,1990, 1995 ; Burtraw, 2012 ).
Panelist(s): Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, University of Pittsburgh;
Karen Pittel, ETH Zurich;Niels Anger, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany, and formerly,
Policy Officer at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy;
Patrice Geoffron, University of Paris Dauphine;
Jing Cao, Tsinghua University

POLICY SESSION: REACH AND BEYOND—EFFECTIVE POLICYINSTRUMENTS TO REGULATE HAZARDOUS CHEMICALSRoom: Handels: Aulan

Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the volumes and range of chemicalsproduced and put
on the market, some of which pose substantial risks to humans and the environment. A major
challenge in the regulation of chemicals is that not all substances or substance uses pose the samerisk: some are benign, some are disruptive and some have long-term effects that are difficult to fully
characterize because of confounders.Today, chemicals regulation relies mainly on direct controls
such as bans, permits and standards because these tools are thought to provide certainty inregulatory outcomes. However, alternative policy formulations such as information disclosure andtaxation schemes might provide more flexibility and increase the incentives for chemical
substitution.In this session we willlook at the effectiveness of the European chemicals regulation
REACH and the U.S. chemicals regulation (TSCA)and discuss possible policy options for
improvements. The session coincides with the publication of a stream of reports taking stock of thefirst 10 years of implementation of REACH.

Organizer(s): Daniel Slunge, The Centre for Future Chemical Risk Assessment and Management,
University of Gothenburg, (www.fram.gu.se)
Chair: Daniel Slunge

Panelists: Karolina Skog, Environment minister, Sweden, ”Towards a more ambitious and effective
chemicals policy”

Bjorn Hansen, Director, European Chemicals Agency, ”The effectiveness of European Chemicals Policy
lessons learned from 10 years of REACH”
Matti Vainio, European Chemicals Agency, ”REACH Authorisation effectiveness and socioeconomic
impacts”
Al McGartland, US EPA, ”Informing decision making under REACH and TSCA: Challenges for Risk
Assessors and Economists”
Jessica Coria, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, ”The Economics of Toxic
Substance Control Implications for REACH and Beyond”

RENEWABLE ENERGY: EFFICIENCY AND ADOPTION

Room: Haga: B225

Chair: Till Requate, University of Kiel

Drivers of Energy Efficiency in German Manufacturing: A Firm-level Stochastic Frontier
Analysis

Philipp Massier, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW); Andreas Loeschel, University ofMuenster; Katrin Sommerfeld, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW); IZA; Benjamin J. Lutz,
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
Discussant: Justin Kirkpatrick, Duke University Program in Environmental Policy

Household Discount Rates and Net Energy Metering Incentives for Rooftop Solar Adoption

Justin Kirkpatrick, Duke University Program in Environmental Policy; Steven Sexton, Duke University
Sanford School of Public Policy; Bryan Bollinger, Duke University Fuqua School of Business; Kenneth
Gillingham, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Discussant: Jacquelyn Pless, University of Oxford

Solar Endowment Salience and Electricity Consumption Substitution

Jacquelyn Pless, University of Oxford; Eoghan McKenna, University of Oxford
Discussant: Till Requate, University of Kiel

Who Gains from Removing Price Volatility Risk from RES-E Operators?
Till Requate, University of Kiel; Daiju Narita, University of Tokyo
Discussant: Philipp Massier, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

RENEWABLE ENERGY: EXTERNALITIES AND SPILLOVERS

Room: Haga: Dragonen

Chair: Anna Bartczak, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw Ecological
Economics Center

Drivers of people's preferences for spatial proximity to energy infrastructure technologies: across-country analysis
Jason Harold, Economic and Social Research Institute; Valentin Bertsch, Economic and Social ResearchInstitute; Thomas Lawrence, University of Georgia; Magie Hall, University of Nebraska Omaha
Discussant: Daniel Kaffine, University of Colorado Boulder

Emissions, Transmission, and the Environmental Value of Wind Energy: Evidence from Texas
Daniel Kaffine, University of Colorado Boulder; Harrison Fell, North Carolina State University; Kevin
Novan, University of California, Davis
Discussant: Erik Johnson, Carthage College

Renewable Generation Capacity and Wholesale Electricity Price Variance

Erik Johnson, Carthage College; Matthew Oliver, Georgia Institute of Technology
Discussant: Anna Bartczak, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw Ecological
Economics Center

Externalities of renewable energy production sites in Germany and Poland: a cross-country
comparison using stated preference data.

Anna Bartczak, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw Ecological Economics
Center; Jürgen Meyerhoff, TU Berlin; Bernadeta Gołębiowska, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic
sciences; Malte Oehlmann, adelphi
Discussant: Jason Harold, Economic and Social Research Institute

THEMATIC SESSION: BEYOND OSTROM: PRECONDITIONSFOR LARGE SCALE COLLECTIVE ACTION

Room: Handels: SEB

Organizer(s): Sverker Jagers, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Sverker Jagers, University of Gothenburg

Large-scale collective action problems are at the heart of humanitys most pressing challenges,
including climate change, large-scale natural resource depletion, nuclear proliferation, antibiotic
resistance due to overconsumption of antibiotics, and pollution. In this session we discuss aconceptual framework to contribute to the theoretical understanding of preconditions for large-scalecollective action and thus setting the stage for future research. More specifically, we define anddescribe the main characteristics of a large-scale collective action problem; explain why
voluntarylarge-scale collective action becomes more improbable as the collective action problem
becomes larger, thus demanding interventions by an external authority (a third party) for such action
to be generated; and outline a conceptual model of the connection between third party interventions
and large-scale collective action. This enables us to identify a number of factors affecting theprospects for third party interventions to successfully generating and sustaining large-scale collective
action behaviour. These mechanisms are to be found at different levels from individual, via national,
to the international level. This implies that third-party interventions are sensitive to a number offactors ranging from individuals social preference to the quality of single countries politicalinstitutions, which reduces the probability of finding universal silver-bullet interventions.

On the preconditions for large-scale collective action
Niklas Harring, University of Gothenburg; Francisco Alpizar, EfD Central America at CATIE; Sverker
Jagers, University of Gothenburg; David Langlet, University of Gothenburg

THEMATIC SESSION: ECONOMETRIC MODEL SELECTION
AND BREAK DETECTION IN RESOURCE AND CLIMATEECONOMICS

Room: Handels: Volvo

Organizer(s): Felix Pretis, University of Oxford; David F Hendry, University of Oxford
Chair: Samson Mukanjari, University of Gothenburg

The session focuses on econometric applications in environmental and climate economics with anemphasis on model selection and the detection of structural breaks and outliers. Papers concentrateon empirical model discovery when there are more candidate variables than observations whileembedding and testing theory. Questions addressed range from whether trends in resource
extraction are stable over time, how to determine the channel of economic impacts of climate change,
how future scenarios projections can be evaluated, how climate treaties influence future markets, andhow econometric models can be used to study the interaction of ice sheets to guide projections of
future sea level rise.

On the Inexhaustibility of Exhaustible Resources

Cameron Hepburn, Oxford University; Alexander Pfeiffer, University of Oxford; Felix Pretis, Universityof Oxford; Alexander Teytelboym, University of Oxford

Beyond Temperatures: An Econometrically-Estimated Damage Function of 21st Century
Climate Impacts using Extreme Climate Indicators
Moritz Schwarz, University of Oxford; Felix Pretis, University of Oxford

Analyzing Differences Between Scenarios

Felix Pretis, University of Oxford; David F Hendry, University of Oxford

Modelling the Interconnectivity between the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets

Katarina Juselius, University of Copenhagen; Andrew Martinez, University of Oxford; Felix Pretis,
University of Oxford

Climate Policy, Trump Election and Anticipation in Coal Futures
Samson Mukanjari, University of Gothenburg

THEMATIC SESSION: HETEROGENEITY IN CLIMATECHANGE INDUCED MIGRATION

Room: Handels: CG-room

Organizer(s): Barbora Sedova, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change(MCC) gGmbH; Matthias Kalkuhl, MCC Berlin; Katrin Millock, Paris School of Economics, CNRS
Chair: Barbora Sedova, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
gGmbHThis thematic session aims at exploring the role of heterogeneity in migrant characteristics foranalyzing climate change induced migration. The overall goal of the session is to move from the large
strand of research that looks at evidence of climate change migration to the questions: Who are theclimate change migrants? and What does heterogeneity in migrant characteristics imply for welfare
and policy analysis? Contributions in this thematic session will include empirical as well as
conceptual and theoretical work. In her presentation, Cristina Cattaneo discusses the current state ofevidence on the heterogeneous implications of climate change for human mobility. The meta-analysis

of Barbora Sedova and Matthias Kalkuhl summarizes the effects of different types of climate shocks
on migration and explains the variation in the existing research with focus on the importance of study
context and design. The empirical analysis by Anouk Missirian and Wolfram Schlenker delivers new
evidence of the specific demographic characteristics (gender, age) of asylum applicants in theEuropean Union, driven by temperature fluctuations. Lastly, Valerie Mueller will present an
innovative theoretical model and empirical evidence of heterogeneous implications of temperature
increases on out-migration from urban areas using a worker time allocation model.

Human Migration in the Era of Climate Change

Cristina Cattaneo, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM); Michel Beine, University of Luxembourg;
Christiane J. Fröhlich, German Institute of Global and Area Studies; Dominic Kniveton, University of
Sussex; Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, University of Göttingen and University Jaume I; Marina
Mastrorillo, Trade and Market Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);
Katrin Millock, Paris School of Economics, CNRS; Etienne Piguet, University of Neuchâtel; Benjamin
Schraven, German Development InstituteReexamining the Temperature - Asylum Relationship

Wolfram Schlenker, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Earth Institute, Columbia
University; Anouch Missirian, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University

Labor Response to Climate Variation in Eastern Africa

Valerie Mueller, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University; International Food
Policy Research Institute; Glenn Sheriff, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University;
Xiaoya Dou, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland; Clark Gray,
Department of Geography, University of North Carolina

Does Climate Change Induce Migration? Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis

Barbora Sedova, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) gGmbH;
Matthias Kalkuhl, MCC Berlin

THEMATIC SESSION: IMPACT ANALYSIS OF FORESTCONSERVATION POLICIES AND PROJECTS

Room: Handels: E45

Organizer(s): Philippe Delacote, INRA; Jessica Coria, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Rodrigo Arriagada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

High rates of deforestation and forest degradation has led to the emergence of REDD+ projects and to
an increasing number of policies intended to reduce deforestation, based on instruments such as
payments for environmental services, forest certification and diverse types of protected areas, Thoseinterventions require proper impact evaluation, in order to assess their additionality in terms of
avoided deforestation, as well as possible co-benefits such as rural development. Those evaluations
are made possible by the increasing access to reliable satellite data on forest resources and land-use
change at local and global levels.
The aim of this session (supported by the research program BECC) is to have an overview of current
impact evaluations of forest policies and REDD+ projects by leading researchers from the field:
Gwenole Le Velly (SUPRAGRO), Rodrigo Arriagada (Pontificia Universidad Cató lica de Chile), Jessica
Coria (University of Gothenburg) and Daan van Soest (Tilburg University).

A tale of REDD+ projects. How do location and certification impact additionality?
Gwenolé Le Velly, CEE-M, Montpellier SupAgro; Gabriela Simonet, CIFOR

Has forest certification improved habitat quality for avian diversity in Sweden?
Jessica Coria, University of Gothenburg; Ake Lindstrom, Department of Ecology, Lund University,
Sweden; Laura Villalobos, Inter-American Development BankCan Uniform Price Auctions inform the design of Payments for Ecosystem Services schemes?
Evidence from the lab and field
Daan van Soest, Tilburg University

Additionality in Communal PES programs: evidence from Ecuador’s Socio Bosque
Rodrigo Arriagada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

THEMATIC SESSION: INTEGRATING ECONOMICS INTOLANDSCAPE-SCALE MODELS OF COUPLED HUMANNATURAL SYSTEMS

Room: Handels: B44

Organizer(s): William Jaeger, Oregon State University

Landscape-scale models of coupled natural and human systems have great potential for increasing
understanding of complex systems and for generating policy-relevant results. Economists have muchto contribute to these analyses however, there are also significant challenges to developing models ofcomplex systems with multi-disciplinary teams. The three studies presented in this session involve
spatially-explicit integrated models of large regional landscapes. They include high resolution models
of economic processes as well as biophysical processes, and were developed in close collaboration
with researchers in the natural sciences. Each study is motivated to address one or more policyquestions related to large scale water resources where the market or other institutions do notinternalize all the benefits of managing water. All involve large data sets due to their spatial scale andhigh resolution. The three studies in this session emphasize large-scale water resource management:
ecological infrastructure in Panama, agricultural runoff and water quality in the U.S. Great Lakes, andwater scarcity and drought in western Oregon, USA.

Assessing Ecological Infrastructure Investments

Eli Fenichel, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Wiktor (Vic) Adamowicz, Unviersity ofAlberta; Laura Calderon-Etter, Yale University; Alicia Entem, University of Alberta; Patrick Lloyd-Smith,
University of Saskatchewan; Fred Odgen, University of Wyoming; Mani Rouhi Rad, Yale School ofForestry and Environmental Studies; Robert Stallard, U.S. Geological Survey; Jefferson Hall, Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute

Payment for Best Management Practice and Downstream Water Quality: A Spatially
Integrated Economic-Ecological Model of Lake Erie watershed

Elena Irwin, Ohio State University; Hongxing Liu, Lafayette College; Wendong Zhang, Iowa State
University; Noel Aloysius, University of Missouri; Jay Martin, The Ohio State University

Understanding the Scope and Limitations of Drought Management Using Human-Natural
System Models

William Jaeger, Oregon State University; Adell Amos, University of Oregon Law School; David Conklin,

Freshwater Simulations, Inc; Christian Langpap, Oregon State University; Kathleen Moore, University ofWashington; Andrew Plantinga, University of Calforinia, Santa Barbara

VALUATION AND CBA

Chair: Johanna Jussila Hammes, National Institute of Economic Research

Room: Handels: B22

Policy context as a factor of bias in the valuation of environmental goods – a dual-process
theories perspective.
Ekaterina Nikitina, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Discussant: Mesfin Tilahun, Norwegian Univeristy of Life Sciences/Mekelle University

The economics of agricultural land degradation in Africa: a cost benefit analysis

Mesfin Tilahun, Norwegian Univeristy of Life Sciences/Mekelle University; Pushpam Kumar, Economic
Division, UN Environment, Nairobi; Ashbindu Singh, Environmental Pulse Institute, Washington DC; Eric
Mungatana, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; Eugene Apindi, Environmental Pulse Institute;Mark Schauer, ELD Seretariate, Bonn, Germany; Aaron Vuola, UN Environment; Zinta Zommers, UN
Environment; Jane Barr, Environmental Pulse Instituite; Gyde Lund, Environmental Pulse InstituteDiscussant: Johannes Friedrich Carolus, University of Copenhagen

A bottom-up approach to environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis

Johannes Friedrich Carolus, University of Copenhagen; Søren Bøye Olsen, University of Copenhagen;Nick Hanley, University of Glasgow; Søren Marcus Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
Discussant: Johanna Jussila Hammes, National Institute of Economic Research

The influence of individual characteristics and institutional norms on bureaucrats use of
CBA: theory and a choice experiment

Johanna Jussila Hammes, National Institute of Economic Research; Lena Nerhagen, Swedish National
Road and Transport research institute (VTI); Heather Congdon Fors, Department of Economics,
University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Ekaterina Nikitina, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

VALUATION: RESOURCES

Room: Handels: B23

Chair: Ping Li, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Comparing spatial patterns of WTP clusters: The case of estuarine ecosystem services in
Scotland.

Valeria Toledo-Gallegos, University of St Andrews; Jed Long, University of St Andrews; Danny
Campbell, Queen's University Belfast; Tobias Börger, University of St Andrews; Nick Hanley, University ofGlasgow
Discussant: Ikhothatseng Greffiths, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA)

Influence of management institution on households’ willingness-to-pay for wetland resource
conservation in Khalong-la-Lithunya wetland area in Lesotho
Ikhothatseng Greffiths, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA); Eric
Mungatana, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA)
Discussant: Rabore Lebabo, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA)

Influence of water source points location on households' willingness to pay for water supply
reliability in Maseru, LesothoRabore Lebabo, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA); Eric Mungatana,
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Discussant: Ping Li, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Using Choice Modelling to assess grassland management policy options in Inner Mongolia

Jeff Bennett, Australian National University; Ping Li, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy ofAgricultural Sciences; Bao Zhang, College of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia Agricultural
University
Discussant: Valeria Toledo-Gallegos, University of St Andrews

VALUATION: WATER

Chair: Silvia Ferrini, DISPI, University of Siena CSERGE, University of East Anglia

Room: Handels: B32

Eliciting values for complex marine ecological features: an integrated choice experiment

Katrina Davis, University of Exeter; Michael Burton, University of Western Australia; Abbie Rogers,
University of Western Australia; Alaya Spencer-Cotton, University of Western Australia; Ram Pandit,
University of Western Australia
Discussant: Milan Scasny, Charles University in Prague

Nature-based, structural, or soft measures of adaptation? Preferences for climate change
adaptation measures to limit damages from droughts

Milan Scasny, Charles University in Prague; Iva Zverinova, Charles University; Alistair Hunt, Universityof BathDiscussant: Amy Ando, University of Illinois

Homeowner Willingness to Pay for a Pre-Flood Agreement for a Post-Flood Buyout
Amy Ando, University of Illinois; Collin Reeser, University of Illinois, Granular
Discussant: Silvia Ferrini, DISPI, University of Siena CSERGE, University of East Anglia

The role of economic valuation in ecosystem services accounting. The case of outdoor
recreation and water purification in Europe

Alessandra La Notte, European Commission - Joint Research Centre; Silvia Ferrini, DISPI, University of
Siena CSERGE, University of East Anglia
Discussant: Katrina Davis, University of Exeter

Coffee break

Wednesday, 15.30-16.00
Room: Handels / Haga

Parallell sessions 6
Wednesday June 27, 16.00-17.45

Parallel session 6

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Wednesday, 16.00-17.45

Chair: Mark Andor, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

Room: Handels: B22

Pro-environmental behavior, positive self-signaling, and the design of informational
interventions

Bruno Lanz, University of Neuchâtel; Linda Lemarié, University of Neuchâtel; Valéry Bezençon,
University of Neuchâtel
Discussant: Christophe Charlier, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France

Under pressure! Nudging electricity consumption within firms. Feedback from a field
experiment
Ankinée Kirakozian, Université de Valenciennes et Hainaut-Cambrésis, Institut du Développement et dela Prospective - IDP; Christophe Charlier, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France; Sandrine
Selosse, MINES ParisTech, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées; Gilles Guerrassimoff, MINES ParisTech,Centre de Mathématiques AppliquéesDiscussant: Yu Gao, Polytechnic University of Milan

It’s So Hot in Here: Information Avoidance, Moral Wiggle Room, and High Air Conditioning
Usage
Giovanna D'Adda, Università degli Studi di Milano; Yu Gao, Polytechnic University of Milan; Massimo
Tavoni, Polytechnic University of Milan; Russell Golman, Carnegie Mellon University
Discussant: Mark Andor, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic ResearchSocial Norms and Energy Conservation Beyond the US

Mark Andor, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research; Andreas Gerster, RWI - Leibniz Institute for
Economic Research; Christoph M. Schmidt, RWI; Jörg Peters, RWI Essen
Discussant: Bruno Lanz, University of Neuchâtel

CARBON POLICY

Chair: Jingbo Cui, Wuhan University

Room: Handels: Aulan

Energy Performance Certificates and Investments in Building Energy Efficiency: A
Theoretical Analysis

Matthieu Glachant, MINES ParisTech and PSL Research University; Paul Hervé Tamokoué Kamga,
MINES ParisTech and PSL Research University; Pierre Fleckinger, MINES ParisTech, PSL Research
University, Paris School of Economics
Discussant: Markus Zimmer, Ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of
MunichHow Effective Has Climate Policy Been? A Company-Level Analysis

Markus Zimmer, Ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich; Ana
Maria Montoya Gómez, Ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Discussant: Michael Pahle, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

What stands in the way becomes the way: Sequencing in climate policy to ratchet up
stringency

Michael Pahle, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the
Future; Christian Flachsland, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change(MCC); Nina Kelsey, George Washington University; Eric Biber, University of California–Berkeley; Jonas
Meckling, University of California–Berkeley; Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
Research, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin Institute ofTechnology; John Zysman, University of California–Berkeley
Discussant: Jingbo Cui, Wuhan University

Carbon Pricing Induces Innovation: Evidence from China's Regional Carbon Market Pilots
Jingbo Cui, Wuhan University; Junjie Zhang, Duke University; Yang Zheng, Wuhan University
Discussant: Matthieu Glachant, MINES ParisTech and PSL Research University

CLIMATE CHANGE: POLICY AND COMPETITIVENESS
Chair: Florens Flues, OECD

Room: Handels: C22

Catching up and falling behind: Cross-country evidence on the impact of the EU ETS on
productivity growth

Michael Themann, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research; Nicolas Koch, Mercator ResearchInstitute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
Discussant: Alexander Golub, American University

Business responses to climate policy uncertainty: Theoretical analysis of a twin deferral
strategy and the risk-adjusted price of carbon

Alexander Golub, American University; Ruben Lubowski, Environmental Defense Fund; Pedro PirisCabezas, Environmental Defense Fund
Discussant: Misato Sato, London School of Economics

Does climate change pose a risk to competitiveness? - Global firm level evidence

Misato Sato, London School of Economics; Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics; Ralf
Martin, Imperial College London; Stefania Lovo, University of Reading
Discussant: Florens Flues, OECD

Permit allocation rules and investment incentives in emissions trading systems
Florens Flues, OECD; Kurt Van Dender, OECD
Discussant: Michael Themann, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

ENERGY: TRANSITION TO RENEWABLES

Chair: Mauricio Rodriguez, Universidad del Rosario

Room: Handels: D33

Energy transition with variable and intermittent renewable electricity generation
Katheline Schubert, University of Paris; Aude Pommeret, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Discussant: Adrien Fabre, Paris School of Economics and University Paris 1

Mineral Resources for Renewable Energy: Optimal Timing of Energy Production

Adrien Fabre, Paris School of Economics and University Paris 1; Mouez Fodha, Paris School of
Economics and University Paris 1; Francesco Ricci, University of Montpellier

Discussant: Alex Schmitt, ifo Institute

Modeling the Transition to Clean Power Generation Under Uncertainty
Alex Schmitt, ifo InstituteDiscussant: Mauricio Rodriguez, Universidad del Rosario

The cost of the status quo: Exploration or innovation in the face of scarcity

Mauricio Rodriguez, Universidad del Rosario; Inge van den Bijgaart, University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Katheline Schubert, University of Paris

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Wisdom Akpalu, UNU-WIDER, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra

Room: Handels: F44

Open access post-harvest grazing and farmers’ preferences for forage production incentives:
A choice experiment study in Ethiopia

Alemu Mekkonnen, Addis Ababa University; Hailemariam Teklewold, Ethiopian Development ResearchInstitute; Tagel Gebrehiwot, Ethiopian Development Research Institute; Mintewab Bezabih, LSE
Discussant: Kewan Mertens, KU Leuven

The interaction between land markets and social norms: too often overlooked?

Kewan Mertens, KU Leuven; Liesbet Vranken, Departement of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU
LeuvenDiscussant: Tim Capon, CSIRO

Measuring, Defining and Valuing Economic Resilience: Understanding the Dynamics ofDeforestation in Laos

Todd Sanderson, CSIRO; Tim Capon, CSIRO; Greg Hertzler, University of Western Australia CSIRO
Discussant: Wisdom Akpalu, UNU-WIDER, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra

Food access and subjective welfare in a developing country

Wisdom Akpalu, UNU-WIDER, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra; Aaron Christian, University of Ghana;Samuel Codjoe, University of Ghana
Discussant: Alemu Mekkonnen, Addis Ababa University

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: FIRMS
Chair: Biswo Poudel, Kathmandu University

Room: Handels: F45

The Social Cost of “Blue Sky”: The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Labor Demand in
China
Mengdi Liu, Nanjing University; Bing Zhang, Nanjing University
Discussant: Anca Balietti, Harvard University

Public Hearings for Cleaner Mines? Evidence from the Environmental Clearance Process in
India
Anca Balietti, Harvard University; Rohini Pande, Harvard University; Anant Sudarshan, University of
Chicago; Kevin Rowe, Harvard University

Discussant: Tewodros Tesemma, University of Gothenburg

Cost of Power Outages for Manufacturing Firms in Ethiopia: A Stated Preference Study

Tewodros Tesemma, University of Gothenburg; Fredrik Carlsson, University of Gothenburg; Eyoual
Demeke, Gothenburg University; Peter Martinsson, University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Biswo Poudel, Kathmandu University

Rationalization of Group Lending in Electricity Market: Evidence from Nepalese Cooperatives
Biswo Poudel, Kathmandu University; Amisha Rauniyar, Kathmandu University
Discussant: Bing Zhang, Nanjing University

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: IMPACT

Chair: Jacek Lipiec, Warsaw School of Economics

Room: Handels: C24

Is Incineration Replacing Recycling?

Masashi Yamamoto, University of Toyama; Thomas Kinnaman, Bucknell University
Discussant: Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University

Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff: The Role of Zoning

Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University; Kyle Mangum, Georgia State University
Discussant: Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University

Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Firm Productivity: Evidence
from the U.S. Electricity Sector, 1938-1999
Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University; Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University; Akshaya Jha,
Carnegie Mellon University; Joshua Lewis, University of Montreal
Discussant: Jacek Lipiec, Warsaw School of Economics

Sovereign Green Bonds in Poland. Policy Recommendations

Jacek Lipiec, Warsaw School of Economics; Piotr Nowak, Ministry of Finance; Robert Zima, Ministry of
Finance
Discussant: Masashi Yamamoto, University of Toyama

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: REGULATION
Chair: Sunbin YOO, The University of Tokyo

Room: Handels: D32

Green Alliances and the Role of Taxation

Eleni Stathopoulou, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University; Luis Gautier, Universityof Texas at Tyler
Discussant: Ana Espinola-Arredondo, Washington State University

Greenwashing and Perceptions Towards Innovation: A Signaling Approach

Ana Espinola-Arredondo, Washington State University; Felix Munoz-Garcia, Washington State
University; Dolores Garrido, Washington State University
Discussant: Antung Liu, Indiana University

Are Carbon Taxes More Efficient in Industrializing Countries? Comparing China and India to
the United States
Antung Liu, Indiana University; Richard Carson, University of California, San Diego; Mark Jacobsen, UC
San Diego
Discussant: Sunbin YOO, The University of Tokyo

Evaluating Japanese Energy Policies through Automobile Industries: A Discrete-Choice with
Product Differentiation Approach
Sunbin YOO, The University of Tokyo; Yoshikuni Yoshida, The University of Tokyo
Discussant: Eleni Stathopoulou, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University

FISHERIES: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Chair: Martin Quaas, University of Kiel

Room: Haga: B210

Optimal Fishery with Coastal CatchThorsten Upmann, Helmholtz-Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the Oldenburg University(HIFMB); Hannes Uecker, Oldenburg University
Discussant: Michael R. Springborn, University of California Davis

Beyond biomass: valuing genetic diversity in natural resource management

Michael R. Springborn, University of California Davis; Amanda Faig, Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences,
University of Washington; Marissa Baskett, University of California Davis; Allison Dedrick, University ofCalifornia Davis
Discussant: Irmelin Helgesen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Maximum yield fishing and optimal fleet composition: A stage structured model analysis
with an example from the Norwegian North-East Arctic cod fishery

Irmelin Helgesen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Anders Skonhoft, NTNU; Arne Eide,
University of Tromsø
Discussant: Martin Quaas, University of Kiel

Strategic harvesting of age-structured populations

Martin Quaas, University of Kiel; Olli Tahvonen, University of Helsinki
Discussant: Thorsten Upmann, Helmholtz-Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the Oldenburg
University (HIFMB)FOREST AND PROTECTED AREAS

Chair: Merlin Hanauer, Sonoma State University

Room: Haga: B228

Urban greenery management as an economic problem

Tomasz Zylicz, Warsaw University; Zbigniew Szkop, University of Warsaw
Discussant: Julia Berazneva, Middlebury College

IMPACTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION: FOREST LOSS, MALARIA, AND CHILDOUTCOMES IN NIGERIA
Julia Berazneva, Middlebury College; Tanya Byker, Middlebury College
Discussant: frank lupi, Michigan State University, USA

Identifying the effect of fire on the value of forest recreation services

frank lupi, Michigan State University, USA; Cloe Garnache, Michigan State University
Discussant: Merlin Hanauer, Sonoma State University

Civil conflict reduced the impact of Colombia’s protected areas

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Universidad EAFIT; Merlin Hanauer, Sonoma State University
Discussant: Tomasz Zylicz, Warsaw University

FORESTRY: THEORY AND EMPIRICS

Room: Haga: B225

Chair: Elizabeth Whalley, University of Warwick

Economics of mixed species forestry with amenities

Olli Tahvonen, University of Helsinki; Janne Rämö, University of Helsinki; Mikko Mönkkönen, Universityof Jyväskylä
Discussant: Julika Herzberg, RWTH Aachen University

Protection and Profit: Spill-over effects of governmental and marked-based forest policies
Julika Herzberg, RWTH Aachen University
Discussant: Astrid Zabel, Bern University of Applied Sciences

Policies for forest landscape management – A conceptual approach with an empiricalapplication for Swedish conditions

Astrid Zabel, Bern University of Applied Sciences; Göran Bostedt, SLU Umeå University; Hans Ekvall,
SLU Umea
Discussant: Elizabeth Whalley, University of Warwick

The effects of variation in management objectives on responses to invading diseases under
uncertainty: Forest Pathogens

Elizabeth Whalley, University of Warwick; Ciara Dangerfield, University of Cambridge; Nick Hanley,
University of Glasgow; John Healey, University of Bangor; Christopher Gilligan, University of Cambridge
Discussant: Olli Tahvonen, University of Helsinki

GROWTH AND TECHNICAL CHANGE
Chair: Andri Brenner, MCC Berlin

Room: Haga: Dragonen

Environmental Regulation Stringency and the Allocation between RD and Physical Capital: A
Two-Engine Growth Model
Yibai Yang, University of Macau; Juin-Jen Chang, Academia Sinica; Chien-Yu Huang, Nanjing Audit
University
Discussant: ZhongXiang Zhang, Tianjin University

China’s Pursuit of Environmentally Sustainable Development: Harnessing the New Engine ofTechnological Innovation
Wei Jin, University of New South Wales; ZhongXiang Zhang, Tianjin University
Discussant: Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks, Institute for Structural Research

Green Innovation and Economic Growth in a North-South Model

Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks, Institute for Structural Research; Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future

Discussant: Andri Brenner, MCC Berlin

Density and the Environment

Andri Brenner, MCC Berlin
Discussant: Yibai Yang, University of Macau

POLICY SESSION: BALANCING SHORT- AND LONG-LIVEDGREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION IN CLIMATE POLICIESRoom: Handels: B33

Organizer(s): Jonathan Camuzeaux, Environmental Defense Fund; Gokce Akin Olcum, Environmental
Defense Fund; Ruben Lubowski, Environmental Defense Fund
Chair: Frank Convery, University College Dublin

Our best chance of curbing climate change in both the near- and long-term is reducing emissions ofboth short- and long-lived climate pollutants. However, evaluating climate effects of pollutants withdifferent radiative effects and atmospheric longevities requires an approach to inter-compare therelative effect each pollutant has on warming. While every greenhouse gas (GHG) warms the climate,each GHG has a different warming effect and warming capacity over different timeframes. For
example, methane decays more rapidly than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but it is a more potent
GHG, so that its influence on the climate is significant on decadal timeframes. On the other hand,carbon dioxide is less potent but decays more slowly, so that avoiding the build-up of carbon dioxidein the atmosphere is essential to avoiding increases in temperature over longer time horizons.
In this session, speakers will discuss the need for clearer metrics to characterize the climate tradeoffs between short- and long-lived GHGs in policy settings; present preliminary research on a novel
approach to establish fungibility between GHGs in emissions trading systems; and look at the case of
New Zealand, where establishing fungibility between gases is crucial, since methane emissions fromagriculture represent a large share of the countrys emissions.
Panelist(s): Ilissa Ocko, Environmental Defense Fund;
Jonathan Camuzeaux, Environmental Defense Fund;
Ruben Lubowski, Environmental Defense Fund;
Gokce Akin Olcum, Environmental Defense Fund;
Zack Dorner, University of Waikato

POLICY SESSION: MAINSTREAMING NATURAL CAPITAL FOR
GREEN GROWTH

Room: Handels: SKF

Organizer(s): Carlo Carraro, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate
Change and University of Venice

Chair: Carlo Carraro, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Changeand University of Venice

Numerous organizations around the world, including the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the African Development Bank, are actively supporting
countries in achieving green growth. This policy session will focus on how to better mainstream
natural capital in these institutions project activities and financing mechanisms, in order tostrengthen natural capital implementation in national and sub-national green growth plans.

In particular, the session will stimulate debate among representatives of these institutions and theacademic community on the need for action around natural capital and the practicalities ofmainstreaming natural capital in international organizations and on the ground.
Debate questions will include:bull;How do the World Bank, OECD and African Development Bank structure green growth projects
and financing?
bull;What would mainstreaming look like and how could it be achieved in each institution?

bull;What knowledge, measurement or data gaps remain to convince key stakeholders in eachorganization and on the ground to mainstream natural capital and implement their commitments?
bull;What is the strongest entry point for improving natural capital implementation in-country
through improved measurement, policy support, infrastructure, business and finance, or others?

bull;How can leading green growth institutions better coordinate to mainstream natural capital andincrease their collective impact on the ground?

bull;What are the truly influential stories or case studies of successful natural capital mainstreaming
and how can they be replicated in other contexts?
Panelist(s): Katia Karousakis, OECD;
Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources;
Carlo Carraro, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate
Change and University of Venice

POLICY SESSION: POLICIES FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

Room: Handels: C33

Organizer(s): Annika Lindskog,
Chair: Anna Norden, Chalmers

This session is named in gratitude to our sponsor Adlerbertska forskningsstiftelsen that has
supported the researchers presenting and projects presented as well as the conference in general.
The foundation fund research on sustainable development in an overall perspective and wish to
support research that can lead to societal change and improve living conditions for all life on earth. In
accordance with this overall objective, the research projects presented study policies that canpotentially make societies develop in a more sustainable way. The first presentation is about reducing
urban congestion and pollution, the second and third about improved management of natural andcommon pool resources, and the fourth about fighting the HIV epidemic.
Chair: Anna Nordeacute;n: ”Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Certification in Sweden”
Zhang Xiao-Bing: ”Optimal environmental road pricing and policies to reduce congestion in Beijing”
Haileselassie Mehdin: ”Cooperation in the management o common pool resources: Building
institutions for sustainable development”

Annika Lindskog: ”Structural intervention to eradicate the HIV epidemic: the role of education”
Panelist(s): Haileselassie Medhin, Environment and Climate Research Center/ECRC;
Xiao-Bing Zhang, Renmin University of China;
Anna Norden, Chalmers;
Annika Lindskog,

STATED PREFERENCES: METHOD

Chair: Ewa Zawojska, University of Warsaw

Room: Handels: B23

Point – Interval Payment Card versus Classic Payment Card: A Convergent Validity test within
the Payment Card format
Louinord Voltaire, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale; P. Wilner Jeanty, School of Business
Discussant: Jorge Araña, Univerity of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Model Uncertainty in Stated Preference Methods
Jorge Araña, Univerity of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Discussant: Daniel Engler, University of Kassel

Mixed Logit estimation of willingness to pay: A Monte Carlo experiment
Daniel Engler, University of Kassel; Andreas Ziegler, University of Kassel
Discussant: Ewa Zawojska, University of Warsaw

Disentangling the effects of policy and payment consequentiality and risk attitudes on statedpreferences
Ewa Zawojska, University of Warsaw; Anna Bartczak, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic
Sciences, Warsaw Ecological Economics Center; Mikołaj Czajkowski, University of Warsaw
Discussant: Louinord Voltaire, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale

THEMATIC SESSION: AIR POLLUTION IN BEIJING:
EMPIRICAL ANALYSES OF CAUSES AND SOCIAL COST

Room: Handels: SEB

Organizer(s): Jintao Xu, Peking University

Curbing aggravating air pollution is a battle at the peak for many large cities in China. In Beijing#39;scase, driving factors of air pollution and its social cost attract many researches but remainunanswered and hotly debated. This thematic session aims at introducing a set of new studies which,utilizing some unique datasets and analytical methods, provide new estimates of sources of air
pollution, at both local and regional scale, and evaluation of various social costs of air pollution.

Pollution Haven Attacks Back? -- Evidence from Air Quality Daily Variation in the Jing-Jin-Ji
RegionLunyu Xie, Renmin University of China; Jintao Xu, Peking University; Shuai Chen, Zhejiang University;
Yingwei Dong, Peking University

Traffic congestion and air pollution in Beijing: Utilizing taxis trajectory data

Fan Xia, National School of Development, Peking University; Ximeng Cheng, Peking University; Yu Liu,

Peking University; Zhen Lei, Pennsylvania State University

Recency and projection biases in air quality valuation by Chinese residents

Shuai Chen, Zhejiang University; Ping Qin, Renmin University of China; Jie-sheng Tan-Soo, National
University of Singapore; Chu Wei, Renmin University of China

Air Pollution and Consumption: Evidence from a Comprehensive Tracking Record of
Prisoners

Shuai Chen, Zhejiang University; Min Wang, Peking Univeristy; Dandan Zhang, Peking University

THEMATIC SESSION: BEYOND HEAT: NEW DIMENSIONS OFENVIRONMENTAL MIGRATION

Room: Handels: E45

Organizer(s): Valerie Mueller, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University;
International Food Policy Research Institute; Joyce Chen, Ohio State University

Chair: Valerie Mueller, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University; International
Food Policy Research InstituteThis session considers environmental stressors and heterogeneity that shape the climate changemigration nexus but are rarely considered in the literature. Novel data sources and methods fromlabor and development economics are applied. The first paper finds flooding affects internal andinternational migration patterns in Bangladesh through increases in soil salinity (rather thaninundation) in opposing ways. Transitory income fluctuations motivate internal moves, while longterm diversification underlies international migration. Households substitute foreign labor market
participation with diversification into aquaculture at home. The next paper turns to the role of air
pollution on migration patterns in China. Utilizing thermal inversions as an IV for air quality, theauthors find migration rates react quite strongly to increases in pollution. Reductions in air quality
are capable of reducing county-level net out-migration by 5 percent and inflows of informal (floating)migrants by up to 50 percent. The final paper examines the impact of travel costs on environmental
migration decisions in Brazil. The authors estimates show that travel costs, as proxied by roadinfrastructure, significantly dampen the migration response to adverse climate conditions. The effects
are particularly pronounced for poor households and agricultural producers, who likely face thegreatest losses and the most stringent liquidity constraints.

The Effect of Air Pollution on Migration: Evidence from China

Peng Zhang, School of Accounting and Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Salt of the Earth: Migration, Adaptation, and Soil Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh

Valerie Mueller, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University; International Food
Policy Research InstituteClimate Change and Internal Migration in Brazil: The Role of Road Infrastructure
Maggie Liu, Smith College

THEMATIC SESSION: BEYOND SUBSIDIZED WATERTARIFFS: STRATEGIES FOR ASSISTING POOR HOUSEHOLDSDURING TARIFF REFORMS

Room: Handels: E 44/GBJroom

Organizer(s): Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joe Cook, Washington
State University
Chair: Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A key strategy for adapting to changing water availability and rapid urbanization is a move towards
full cost recovery tariffs for water and sanitation services. Because these services are substantially
underpriced in most places, this strategy implies that careful attention must be directed at programs
to help the poor manage water affordability. The first paper in this session describes how Chiles
innovative subsidy program has evolved since its introduction in 1990, with a specific focus on its
ability to accurately target support to the poor. The second paper reviews the global experience with
”non-tariff” customer assistance programs. The third paper examines why the poor in Cape Town,
South Africa responded differently to non-price, social norm nudges than the non-poor. The final
paper reports on surveys from Kathmandu, Nepal and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where researchers
asked households which type of tariff structure (increasing block or uniform volumetric) they would
prefer.

Heterogeneous responses to behavioural messages: evidence from a large-scale randomised
control trial in Cape Town
Martine Visser, University of Cape Town; Johanna Bruehl, University of Cape town

Revisiting the distributional impacts of water subsidy policy in Chile: A historical analysis
from 1998-2015
Andres Gomez-Lobo, University of Chile; Dante Contreras, University of Chile; Isidora Palma Carvajal,
Ministry of Social Development

Unraveling Households’ Preferences for Increasing Block Tariff Structures in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia and Kathmandu, Nepal

Jane Zhao, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill; Helena Cardenas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A global assessment of non-tariff customer assistance programs in water supply andsanitation

Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; David Fuente, University of South Carolina;
Michael Matichich, Jacobs Engineering

THEMATIC SESSION: DESIGNING CONSERVATIONAUCTIONS TO IMPROVE BIDDER PARTICIPATION

Room: Handels: B44

Organizer(s): John Rolfe, Central Queensland University
Chair: John Rolfe, Central Queensland University

A major limitation of conservation tenders (and some Payment for Ecosystem Service) schemes are
low participation rates of potential bidders, particularly for schemes targeting farmers and rural
landholders, with implications on both efficiency and effectiveness dimensions. This thematic session
is focused on how to address problems of low participation rates and bid formation issues inconservation auctions by focusing on landholder uncertainty over their own costs of managementchanges as a potential cause. The workshop involves some of the leading academics in this field,
including expertise in the theory underpinning conservation auctions, expertise in running laboratory
experiments, and expertise in running field experiments and auctions.

The session will involve the presentation of four key papers on:* An international review of participation in conservation auctions as well as a conceptual model toexplain participation drivers.
* The impact of auction design on participation, drawing on case study material from Canada.

* Experimental results about the effects of bidder cost uncertainty on participation and bidding
behaviour.

* Experimental results about how bidders perceptions of competition intensity affects participation ina type of Nash-equilibrium setting.

Identifying the causes of low participation rates in Conservation Tenders

John Rolfe, Central Queensland University; Steven G. M. Schilizzi, Western Australia University; Peter
Boxall, University of Alberta; Uwe Latacz-Lohmann, Department of Agricultural Economics, University ofKiel; Sayed Ifekhar, University of Western Austrlia; Megan Star, CQUniversity; Patrick O'Connor,
University of Adelaide

Information Rent Seeking in Conservation Auctions Using Uniform and Discriminatory
Pricing: Field Experiments in Wetland Restoration
Peter Boxall, University of Alberta; Anna Kauffman, University of Alberta

Does cost uncertainty affect the performance of conservation auctions?

Steven G. M. Schilizzi, Western Australia University; Sayed Ifekhar, University of Western Austrlia; John
Rolfe, Central Queensland University; Peter Boxall, University of Alberta

How does cost uncertainty affect bidding behaviour and willingness to participate inconservation auctions?

Sayed Ifekhar, University of Western Austrlia; Steven G. M. Schilizzi, Western Australia University; Peter
Boxall, University of Alberta

THEMATIC SESSION: POLICY DESIGN WITH THE END IN
MIND: NEW RESEARCH ON U.S. CARBON PRICING OPTIONS

Room: Handels: E43

Organizer(s): Adele C. Morris, Brookings
Chair: Adele C. Morris, Brookings

The United States is facing tremendous uncertainty around the future direction of climate policy. Thissession explores alternative U.S. policy options in light of different potential goals and priorities ofpolicymakers. Each paper focuses on a particular outcome or objective of a carbon pricing policy andexplores tradeoffs across alternative policy designs. Using computable general equilibrium models
and other tools, the papers explore how different carbon pricing policies can result in different levelsof revenue; uncertainties across emissions, price, and other outcomes; information revelation; andpower generation.

Taxes vs. Tradable Permits: Information Asymmetry and Dynamic Adjustment Mechanisms
Robert Harris, Duke University; William Pizer, Duke University

The Revenue Implications of A Carbon Tax

Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University; Mei Yuan, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global
Change; John Reilly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sergey Paltsev, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology

Controlling Carbon Emissions from U.S. Power Plants: How a Tradable Performance Standard
Compares to a Carbon Tax
Warwick McKibbin, Australian National University; Adele C. Morris, Brookings; Peter Wilcoxen,
Syracuse University

Mechanisms to Reduce Emissions Uncertainty under a Carbon Tax

Marc Hafstead, Resources for the Future; Roberton Williams, University of Maryland and Resources for
the Future

THEMATIC SESSION: REGULATORY INSTRUMENTS UNDERUNCERTAINTY

Room: Handels: Volvo

Organizer(s): Richard Newell, Resources for the Future
Chair: Richard Newell, Resources for the Future

Regulatory instruments must cope with real-world uncertainties. For example, cap-and-trade
programs have features that enable flexibility: regulated firms can bank permits for future use but doso recognizing the regulator can adjust the cap in either direction. Further, changes in factor prices
and the presence of overlapping policies will affect market outcomes. The first paper in this session(Salant et al.) investigates an unnoticed effect of price floors the mechanism most existing programs
use to limit the supply of permits to affect the market outcome even when the price floor is notbinding and tests theoretical predictions experimentally. The second paper (Weitzman) steps backand investigates the welfare effects of intertemporal decision making by firms under cap and trade incomparison with an emissions tax. The third paper examines, in simulation modeling andexperimentally, a novel mechanism that makes the supply of allowances in a market responsive to theequilibrium price, a feature of commodity markets and one that is recently evident in practice. Taken
together, the three papers would comprise a tight and high-level session at the World Congress.

The Effect of Non-Binding Price Floors on the Price of Bankable Emissions Permits

Stephen Salant, University of Maryland; William Shobe, University of Virginia; Neslihan Uler, Universityof Maryland

Prices or Quantities Dominate Banking and Borrowing
Martin Weitzman, Harvard University

Quantities with Prices

Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future; Charles Holt, University of Virginia; Karen Palmer, Resources
for the Future; Anthony Paul, Resources for the Future; William Shobe, University of Virginia

THEMATIC SESSION: VALUING RECREATION: METHODS,
EMPIRICS, AND CLIMATE CHANGE APPLICATIONS

Room: Handels: CG-room

Organizer(s): Casey Wichman, Resources for the Future; Nathan Chan, University of Massachusetts
AmherstChair: Casey Wichman, Resources for the Future

Valuing nonmarket goods and services has long been a central tenet of environmental and resource
economics. Currently, novel data sources and pressing environmental issues are providing challenges
and opportunities for the inclusion of environmental benefits in policy decisions. In this thematic
session we integrate four papers at the intersection of using novel data sources and methods toinform the value of recreational opportunities and complementary environmental resources.
Collectively, these papers provide both methodological and empirical insights on valuing recreational
opportunities, with an eye towards understanding potential impacts of climate change.

Blending Supplementary Surveys with Citizen Science Data to Estimate Representative Use
Values for Non-market Environmental Goods: An eBird example
Sonja Kolstoe, Salisbury University; Trudy Ann Cameron, University of Oregon

The Effects of Weather on Recreational Fishing Demand and Adaptation: Implications for a
Changing Climate
Steven Dundas, Oregon State University; Roger von Haefen, North Carolina State University

Valuing Nonmarket Impacts of Climate Change: From Reduced Form to Welfare

Nathan Chan, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Casey Wichman, Resources for the Future

The Effects of Climate on Leisure Demand: Evidence from North America

Nathan Chan, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Casey Wichman, Resources for the Future

TRANSPORT

Chair: VINISH KATHURIA, IIT BOMBAY

Room: Handels: F43

Clearing the Air: Restricting Vehicle Use or Adopting Cleaner Vehicles?

Xiaoguang Chen, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Jingjing Ye, Southwestern
University of Finance and Economics
Discussant: Karolina Safarzynska, Warsaw University

A higher rebound effect under bounded rationality: Interactions between car mobility andelectricity generation
Karolina Safarzynska, Warsaw University
Discussant: Benjamin Leard,

The Effect of Fuel Price Changes on Fleet Demand for New Vehicle Fuel Economy

Benjamin Leard, ; Virginia McConnell, Resources for the Future; Yichen Christy Zhou, Clemson
University
Discussant: VINISH KATHURIA, IIT BOMBAYInvestigating the Effect of Mumbai Metro on pollution – A Preliminary Analysis
VINISH KATHURIA, IIT BOMBAY; Neeraj Sanghi, Doctoral Student, IIT Bombay
Discussant: Xiaoguang Chen, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

VALUATION: HEDONIC PRICING

Chair: Michele Baggio, University of Connecticut

Room: Handels: B32

Identifying the Information Effect of Flood Events: A Near-Miss Hedonic Approach

Allan Beltran, LSE Fellow in Environmental Economics (Department of Geography and Environment);
David Maddison, University of Birmingham; Robert Elliott, University of Birmingham
Discussant: Toni Sipic, Central Washington University

The Economic Impacts of Forest Timber Methods in Washington State: A Hedonic Approach
Toni Sipic, Central Washington University; Kaleb Javier, Central Washington University
Discussant: Ivan Petrov, University College Dublin

Information Asymmetry, Split Incentives and Energy Efficiency in the Residential Rental
MarketIvan Petrov, University College Dublin; Lisa Ryan, University College Dublin
Discussant: Michele Baggio, University of Connecticut

The Housing Market Impacts of Noise Pollution: Evidence from a Natural ExperimentMichele Baggio, University of Connecticut; Charles Towe, University of Connecticut
Discussant: Allan Beltran, LSE Fellow in Environmental Economics (Department of Geography andEnvironment)

Congress dinner

Wednesday, 18.30-02.00
Room: Eriksbergshallen

Parallell sessions 7
Thursday June 28, 8.30-10.15

Parallel session 7

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Thursday, 08.30-10.15

Chair: Kennet Uggeldahl, University of Copenhagen

Room: Handels: B22

How Do Emotional States Impact Monetary Donation to Environmental NGOs?

Sébastien Roussel, CEE-M Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (UPVM3); Lisette Ibanez, CEE-M INRA
Discussant: Tim Cason, Purdue University

Subject Pools and Deception in Agricultural and Resource Economics Experiments
Tim Cason, Purdue University; Steven Wu, Purdue University
Discussant: Amare Teklay Hailu, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Forest conservation and motivation crowding: a framed field experimentAmare Teklay Hailu, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Discussant: Kennet Uggeldahl, University of Copenhagen

What the eye does not admire, the mind cannot desire – An eye tracking study applying gazecontingency to measure information and choice attribute non-attendance in stated choice
experiments

Kennet Uggeldahl, University of Copenhagen; Chris N.H. Street, Department of Psychology, University of
Huddersfield; Thomas Lundhede, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of
Copenhagen; Søren Bøye Olsen, University of Copenhagen
Discussant: Sébastien Roussel, CEE-M Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (UPVM3)

CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACT

Chair: Michael Berlemann, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg

Room: Handels: D33

Distribution of Global Temperature Effects on Downscaled Economic Activity

Shouro Dasgupta, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici and Università Ca' Foscari
Venezia; Francesco Bosello, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan andEuro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change; Enrica De Cian, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui
Cambiamenti Climatici and Università Ca' Foscari Venezia; Malcolm Mistry, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo
sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Discussant: Kine Josefine Aurland-Bredesen, NMBU

Averting catastrophes in a more complex world
Kine Josefine Aurland-Bredesen, NMBU
Discussant: Aurélie Méjean, CIRED - CNRS

Catastrophic climate change, population ethics and intergenerational equity

Aurélie Méjean, CIRED - CNRS; Antonin Pottier, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne; Stéphane Zuber,
Paris School of Economics - CNRS; Marc Fleurbaey, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs, Princeton University
Discussant: Michael Berlemann, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg

Hurricanes, Economic Growth and Transmission Channels - Empirical Evidence for Countries
on Differing Levels of Development

Michael Berlemann, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg; Daniela Wenzel, Helmut-SchmidtUniversity Hamburg
Discussant: Shouro Dasgupta, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici and Università Ca'
Foscari Venezia

CLIMATE CHANGE: SOCIAL COST OF CARBON AND CARBONPRICING

Room: Handels: C24

Chair: Chuan-Zhong Li, Uppsala University

Climatic cost-benefit analysis under uncertainty and learning on climate sensitivity anddamagesTommi Ekholm, Aalto University
Discussant: Maddalena Ferranna, Princeton University

Intergenerational equity, risk aversion and the social cost of carbon
Maddalena Ferranna, Princeton University
Discussant: Samuel Okullo, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Determining the social cost of carbon under damage and climate sensitivity uncertainty
Samuel Okullo, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Discussant: Chuan-Zhong Li, Uppsala University

An explicit formula for optimal carbon taxes under general economic settings
Chuan-Zhong Li, Uppsala University
Discussant: Tommi Ekholm, Aalto University

CLIMATE POLICY

Chair: Antonio Bento, University of Southern California

Room: Handels: Malmsten

Siting Solar PV Capacity to Maximize Environmental Benefits

Steven Sexton, Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy; Justin Kirkpatrick, Duke University
Program in Environmental Policy; Robert Harris, Duke University; Nicholas Muller, Carnegie Mellon
University
Discussant: Jean-Philippe Nicolai, ETH ZurichNorth-South diffusion of climate-mitigation technologies: The crowding-out effect on
relocation
Jean-Philippe Nicolai, ETH Zurich; Julie Ing, University of Rennes
Discussant: Hermann Held, Universität Hamburg

Replacing temperature targets by subsidiary targets: How accurate are they? - Overshooting
vs. economic losses
Lukas Stein, Universität Hamburg; Hermann Held, Universität Hamburg; Mohammad M. Khabbazan,
Universität Hamburg
Discussant: Antonio Bento, University of Southern California

A New Approach to Measuring Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
Antonio Bento, University of Southern California

Discussant: Steven Sexton, Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy

CONSERVATION

Chair: François Libois, Paris School of Economics and INRA

Room: Handels: B44

Introducing Conservation Auctions Into an Existing PES Program

Natasha James, USDA Forest Service, North Carolina State University; Liv Lundberg, Chalmers
University of Technology; Erin Sills, North Carolina State University
Discussant: Prasenjiit Banerjee, Manchester

SOCIAL REWARDS AND THE DESIGN OF VOLUNTARY INCENTIVE MECHANISM FOR
BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION ON FARMLAND

Prasenjiit Banerjee, Manchester; Ada Wossink, University of Manchester; Rupayan Pal, Indira Gandhi
Institute of Development Research
Discussant: Marc Conte, Fordham University

Information Access, Conservation Practice Choice, and Rent Seeking in Conservation
Procurement Auctions: Evidence from a Laboratory ExperimentMarc Conte, Fordham University; Simanti Banerjee, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Discussant: François Libois, Paris School of Economics and INRA

Government Incentives for Private Ownership of Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from
Belgium
François Libois, Paris School of Economics and INRA; Astrid Similon, University of Namur; Gani
Aldashev, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Joaquin Morales Belpaire, University of Namur
Discussant: Liv Lundberg, Chalmers University of Technology

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND BIODIVERSITY

Room: Handels: CG salen

Chair: Dawit Mulatu, Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) at Ethiopian Development
Research Institute (EDRI)

A Green Gold Standard? Biogenic carbon accounting in the case of carbon neutral certified
coffee from Costa Rica

Athena Birkenberg, University of Hohenheim; Sigrun Wagner, The Manchester Metropolitan University;
Thomas Hilger, University of Hohenheim; Peter Läderach, International Center for Tropcial Agriculture(CIAT); Regina Birner, University of Hohenheim
Discussant: Zachary Brown, North Carolina State University

The Price of Evolution: Applying Natural Capital Theory to Evaluate the Costs of Resistance
Zachary Brown, North Carolina State University
Discussant: Wiktor (Vic) Adamowicz, Unviersity of Alberta

Payments versus subsidized loans in payment for ecosystem services schemes underconditions of capital market failures.
Alicia Entem, University of Alberta; Patrick Lloyd-Smith, University of Saskatchewan; Mani Rouhi Rad,
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Eli Fenichel, Yale School of Forestry andEnvironmental Studies; Wiktor (Vic) Adamowicz, Unviersity of Alberta
Discussant: Dawit Mulatu, Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) at Ethiopian Development

Research Institute (EDRI)

Valuing Resident’s preferences for improved urban ecosystem services: Recreation,
economic space development and nature restoration in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Dawit Mulatu, Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) at Ethiopian Development ResearchInstitute (EDRI); Jessica Alvsilver, UNDP; Juha Siikamäki, International Union for Conservation of Nature
Discussant: Athena Birkenberg, University of Hohenheim

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: AGRICULTURE AND
CLIMATE

Room: Handels: F45

Chair: Guillermo Montt, International Labour Organization

Impacts of climate change Adaptation on food security: Evidence from Semi-Arid, Kenya

S. Wagura Ndiritu, Strathmore University; Geoffrey S. Muricho, International Crops Research Institutefor the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Discussant: Ridhima Gupta, IISER Bhopal

White Revolution in India: Estimating the Environmental Impact.

Amlan Das Gupta, Institute of Financial Management and Research; Ridhima Gupta, IISER Bhopal
Discussant: Jill Caviglia-Harris, Salisbury University

Averting Behavior and Climate Change in the Brazilian Amazon: Estimating the Impact ofChanges in Seasonal Water Availability on Dairy Production

Jill Caviglia-Harris, Salisbury University; Trent Biggs, San Diego State University; Daniel Harris,
Salisbury University; Katrina Mullan, University of Montana; Erin Sills, North Carolina State University
Discussant: Guillermo Montt, International Labour Organization

How sustainable agriculture impacts rural economies: Conservation agriculture and working
conditions in sub-Saharan Africa
Guillermo Montt, International Labour Organization; Trang Luu, Graduate Institute of International andDevelopment Studies
Discussant: S. Wagura Ndiritu, Strathmore University

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: IMPACT
Chair: Iivo Vehviläinen, Aalto University

Room: Handels: D32

Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations
Wesley Blundell, California State University, East Bay; Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of Arizona,
HEC Montreal, and NBER; Ashley Langer, University of Arizona
Discussant: Tobias Häggmark, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

The Impact of Water Quality Policies on Innovation in Nitrogen and Phosphorus
Technologyin Sweden

Tobias Häggmark, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Katarina Elofsson, Swedish University ofAgricultural Sciences
Discussant: Morten Endrikat, RWTH Aachen University

The effect of environmental quality on welfare accounting

Almut Balleer, RWTH Aachen University; Morten Endrikat, RWTH Aachen University
Discussant: Iivo Vehviläinen, Aalto University

Collusive Cross-ownership and Exit: Theory and Application to Nuclear

Iivo Vehviläinen, Aalto University; Matti Liski, Aalto University School of Economics
Discussant: Wesley Blundell, California State University, East Bay

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: MARKET-BASED INSTRUMENTS
Chair: Reid Dorsey-Palmateer, Western Washington University

Room: Handels: C22

The Rebound Effect of Food Waste Reduction Policies

Brian Roe, Ohio State University; Danyi Qi, Ohio State University
Discussant: Valeria Grippo, University of Basilicata

AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE RELATION BETWEEN LANDFILL TAXATION AND
HOUSEHOLD WASTE PRODUCTION IN ENGLAND

Valeria Grippo, University of Basilicata; Luca Panzone, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, School of
Natural and Environmental Sciences; Diogo Monjardino Souza Monteiro, School of Natural andEnvironmental Sciences , Newcastle University
Discussant: Alaz Munzur, University of Calgary

Pricing Carbon in Canada: An Analysis of the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth andClimate Change
Alaz Munzur, University of Calgary
Discussant: Reid Dorsey-Palmateer, Western Washington University

The Effect of Carbon Taxation on Cross Border Competition and Energy Efficiency
Investments
Reid Dorsey-Palmateer, Western Washington University; Ben Niu, St John Fisher College
Discussant: Brian Roe, Ohio State University

FISHERIES: EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF CREDIT, RISK,CONTRACTS AND MONITORING

Room: Haga: B210

Chair: César Salazar, University of Bio-Bio

Fisher participation in monitoring: Its effect on fishers’ capital investment behavior in a
fishery with area-based management systems

Chi Nguyen, The University of Western Australia; Atakelty Hailu, University of Western Australia; Steven
G. M. Schilizzi, Western Australia University; Sayed Ifekhar, University of Western Austrlia
Discussant: Ruth Beatriz Mezzalira Pincinato, Department of Industrial Economics, University ofStavanger

Production Risk in the Norwegian Fisheries

Ruth Beatriz Mezzalira Pincinato, Department of Industrial Economics, University of Stavanger; Frank
Asche, (1) Institute for Sustainable Food Systems and School of Forest Resources and Conservation,
University of Florida, Gainesville; (2) Dep. of Industrial Economics, University of Stavanger; Andreea
Cojocaru, Department of Industrial Economics, University of Stavanger; Kristin Roll, (1) School ofBusiness. University College of Southeast Norway; (2) Department of Industrial Economics, University ofStavanger
Discussant: Frederik Noack, University of British Columbia

Credit Market Development and Resource Extraction: Evidence from Global Fisheries

Frederik Noack, University of British Columbia; Christopher Costello, University of California, Santa
BarbaraDiscussant: César Salazar, University of Bio-Bio

The impact of collective use rights on share contracts. The case of the Extractive Artisanal
Regime (RAE) in the Chilean hake fisheries.
César Salazar, University of Bio-Bio; Jorge Dresdner, Universidad de Concepción
Discussant: Chi Nguyen, The University of Western Australia

HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

Chair: Cristobal Ruiz-Tagle, University of Maryland

Room: Handels B23

Health co-benefits from air pollution and mitigation costs of the Paris Agreement: amodelling study

Jon Sampedro, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3); Anil Markandya, BC3 Basque Centre for
Climate Change, University of Bath; Steven Smith, Joint Global Change Research Institute, PacificNorthwest National Laboratory; Rita Van Dingenen, Joint Research Centre, Energy, Transport andClimate Directorate; Cristina Pizarro-Irizar, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3); Iñaki Arto, BasqueCentre for Climate Change (BC3); Mikel Gonzalez-Eguino, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)
Discussant: Yana Jin, College of William Mary

Valuing Health Risk Reductions from Air Quality Improvement: Evidence from a New
Discrete Choice Experiment in China
Yana Jin, College of William Mary; Henrik Andersson, TSE; Zhang Shiqiu, Peking University
Discussant: Cristobal Ruiz-Tagle, University of Maryland

Ambient Air Pollution and Infant Mortality in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Santiago,
Chile
Cristobal Ruiz-Tagle, University of Maryland; Sebastian Miller, Inter-American Development Bank
Discussant: Balazs Stadler, OECD University of East Anglia

The economic cost of air pollution: Evidence from Europe

Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics; Nicholas Rivers, University of Ottawa; Balazs
Stadler, OECD University of East Anglia
Discussant: Jon Sampedro, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)

NATURAL DISASTERS

Room: Handels: F43

Chair: Avichal Mahajan, Institute of Economics and Econometrics, University of Geneva

Coastal Wetlands Reduce Property Damage During Tropical Cyclones

Richard Carson, University of California, San Diego; Fanglin Sun, University of California, San Diego
Discussant: Can Askan Mavi, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne- Paris School of Economics

What Can Abrupt Events Tell Us About Sustainability?

Can Askan Mavi, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne- Paris School of Economics
Discussant: Niko Jaakkola, Ifo Institut

Sea level rise and the social cost of flood insurance subsidies

Niko Jaakkola, Ifo Institut; Terrence Iverson, Colorado State University
Discussant: Avichal Mahajan, Institute of Economics and Econometrics, University of Geneva

Adaptation to Negative Rainfall Shocks: Evidence from Ethiopia

Avichal Mahajan, Institute of Economics and Econometrics, University of Geneva; Salvatore Di Falco,
University of Geneva
Discussant: Richard Carson, University of California, San Diego

POLICY SESSION: BEST PRACTICES IN REVEALEDPREFERENCE APPROACHES FOR NONMARKET VALUATIONMETHODS THAT INFORM ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Room: Handels: B33

Organizer(s): Catherine Kling, Iowa State/Cornell University
Chair: Catherine Kling, Iowa State/Cornell University

The results from hedonic property value studies, hedonic wage studies, and recreation demandmodeling are a critical component of the benefit estimates used by national and state government toguide policy design. Yet, unlike a key alternative, stated preference methods, professionally acceptedguidance identifying the best practices that researchers should follow when generating benefit
estimates to inform policy analyses is lacking. In this session, three papers that have beencommissioned by REEP to develop best practice guidance in these three areas will be presented.
Session attendees will be encouraged to provide constructive input to paper authors for them toincorporate in subsequent revisions. Final papers will be formally peer reviewed and, subject toreview, published in REEP.
Panelist(s): Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Arizona State University NBER;
Kelly Bishop, Arizona State University;
Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University;
Kevin Boyle, University of Maine;
Jaren Pope, Brigham young University;
Chris Timmins, Duke University;
Kathrine vonGravenitz, University of Mannheim;
Catherine Kling, Iowa State/Cornell University;
Mary Evans, Claremont McKenna;
Laura Taylor, North Carolina State University;
frank lupi, Michigan State University, USA;
Daniel Phaneuf, University of Wisconsin;
Roger von Haefen, North Carolina State University

POLICY SESSION: ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTS FOR THE
DESIGN OF PAYMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

Room: Handels: E 44/GBJroom

Organizer(s): Elisabeth Gsottbauer, University of Innsbruck; Stefanie Engel, Institute ofEnvironmental Systems Research, Osnabrueck University
Chair: Elisabeth Gsottbauer, University of InnsbruckGiven the growing trend of proposing Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes to counteract
biodiversity and ecosystem loss and the fact that PES are a fairly new instrument, many open
question remain concerning the optimal design of PES programs. This policy session will explore theefforts to incorporate insights from economic experiment into a more effective design of PES policies.
In particular, methodological challenges associated with the use of experimental approaches toevaluate PES will be discussed, including both lab and field experiments as well as randomized
control trials (RCT). The session is comprised of researchers and people working close to policy
makers to present their experimental and behavioural research and shed some light on how theirresults can enhance the design and implementation of PES programs.

Panelist(s): Jetske Bouma, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL);
Stefanie Engel, Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship of Environmental Economics,
Universität Osnabrück;
Daan van Soest, Tilburg University;
Anna Norden, Chalmers;
Maria Alejandra Velez, Universidad de los Andes

POLICY SESSION: GLOBAL-LOCAL INTERACTIONS IN WATERPOLICY: LEARNING FROM COUNTRY EXPERIENCES

Room: Handels: E43

Organizer(s): Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside; Jose Albiac, CITA
Chair: Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside, School of Public Policy

Many countries around the world face endemic water scarcity problems. Some even face extreme
droughts and floods, as well as degraded water quality, which affect multiple sectors of the economy
and the natural environment. Current climate change research predicts episodes of drought tobecome longer, more frequent, and more extreme. Therefore the pressure on existing water
resources would further exacerbated. Countries are considering and developing policies to deal with
the immediate and long-term implications of water scarcity and deteriorated quality in theircountries. Policymakers of water resources look into a long-term set of policies that change the way
water is valued, allocated and used in the country.
While the policies that are developed for the purpose of a given country may serve the conditions ofthat country, still those may also be relevant for reforms considered by and conditions in othercountries. Conversely, the use of policy interventions to influence efficient and equitable water
allocation and use, which is developed in one country may also benefit from looking at lessons
learned elsewhere.
The proposed session will convene international experts to share experience from their countries inpolicy reforms in the water sector. Scholars and policy analysts from Canada, Israel, Mexico, South
Africa, and Spain will present and contrast their country experiences, which illustrate how water
policies were designed to address a set of problems in each country and how some of the policy
interventions experienced in one country can be considered in other countries. These presentations
will lead to discussion of how economic incentives and other policy instruments might be used toaddress some of the challenges faced by water economies in various countries.
Panelist(s): Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside, School of Public Policy;
Diane Dupont, Brock University;

Mexico;Nir Becker, Tel-Hai College;
Hilda R. Guerrero García-Rojas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo,
Jose Albiac, CITA;
Derek Weston, Pegasys

RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY: DIFFUSION AND
CONSTRAINTS

Room: Haga: B225

Chair: Javier López Prol, University of Graz

Accelerating diffusion of climate-friendly technologies: a network perspective
Solmaria Halleck Vega, Paris School of Economics; Antoine Mandel, Paris School of Economics, University
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Katrin Millock, Paris School of Economics, CNRS
Discussant: Hyeongyul Roh, North Carolina State University

Wind Generation, Inefficiency, and Market Power in Electricity Markets: Counterfactual
Prediction with Dynamic Neural Networks for Causal Inference
Hyeongyul Roh, North Carolina State University
Discussant: Nils May, DIW Berlin

Too good to be true? How time-inconsistent renewable energy policies deter investments
Nils May, DIW Berlin; Chiappinelli Olga, DIW Berlin
Discussant: Javier López Prol, University of Graz

The cannibalization effect of wind and solar in the California wholesale electricity market

Javier López Prol, University of Graz; Karl Steininger, University of Graz; David Zilberman, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley
Discussant: Katrin Millock, Paris School of Economics, CNRSRESOURCES: THEORY

Chair: Gardner Brown, University of Washington

Room:

Local and Global Market Interactions between Aquaculture and Multi-species Fisheries: a
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Christian Bogmans, International Monetary Fund; Daan van Soest, Tilburg University
Discussant: Nori Tarui, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Open-Access Renewable Resources and Urban Unemployment: Dual Institutional Failures ina Small Open Economy
Nori Tarui, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Daitoh Ichiroh, Keio University
Discussant: Scott Barrett, Columbia University

The Malaria Eradication Game

Scott Barrett, Columbia University
Discussant: Gardner Brown, University of Washington

Variable Forest Rotation Times with Leaves Swept and Carbon Credits

Zhi Li, Xiamen University; Gardner Brown, University of Washington; Gunnar Kohlin, University ofGotheborg; Wisdom Akpalu, University of Ghana; David Ragozin, University of Washington

Discussant: Christian Bogmans, International Monetary Fund

THEMATIC SESSION: ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN
THE DEVELOPING WORLD: EVIDENCES AND CHALLENGES

Room: Handels: SEB

Organizer(s): Peter Berck, UC Berkeley; Cyndi Berck, Berck Editorial; Salvatore Di Falco, University ofGenevaChair: Salvatore Di Falco, University of Geneva

This session will present an overview of existing empirical evidence on the economics of adaptation
to climate change. A set of micro empirical studies from the developing world will be presented. The
emphasis is placed on the lessons learnt and the future scientific and policy challenges.

Good Things Come in Packages: Sustainable Intensification Systems in Smallholder
Agriculture

Hailemariam Teklewold, Ethiopian Development Research Institute; Cyndi Berck, Berck Editorial

Ambiguity Aversion and Demand for Weather Information in Agricultural Technology
Adoption; Case of Namibia
Martine Visser, University of Cape Town; Chalmers Mulwa, University of Cape Town

Climate Change Adaptation and Livestock Activity Choice in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia
Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Mekelle University

THEMATIC SESSION: CATASTROPHES AND LEARNING

Room: Handels: E45

Organizer(s): Matti Liski, Aalto University School of Economics; David Martimort, PSE; Tuomas Laiho,
University of Oslo
Chair: Matti Liski, Aalto University School of Economics

Information Acquisition in Common Pool Problems

Olli-Pekka Kuusela, Oregon State University; Tuomas Laiho, University of Oslo

Tipping points, delays, and the control of catastrophes

Matti Liski, Aalto University School of Economics; Francois Salanie, Toulouse School of Economics

Precaution, Information and Time-Consistency: A Few Thoughts on the Precautionary
Principle
David Martimort, PSE

THEMATIC SESSION: DEEP UNCERTAINTY, RATIONALITYAND CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS

Room: Handels: C33

Organizer(s): Loïc Berger, ; Daniel Heyen, London School of Economics and Political Science; Phoebe
Koundouri, School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; CCCEP,
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; International Center for Research on theEnvironment and the Economy (ICRE8), GreeceChair: Loïc Berger,

Uncertainty is pervasive. If this assertion is true for most problems implying a decision to be made, it
is of particular importance when considering decisions with global, long-lasting and potentiallyirreversible consequences. Among a variety of other examples, the environmental challenge faced byhumanity concerning global climate change illustrates particularly well the importance of considering
deep uncertainty when making a decision.
Specifically, climate change policy whether at a local, national or international scale requires dealing
with the presence of uncertainty on many dimensions. Although it is now fully recognized that thepresence of these uncertainties represents an essential datum of the climate change issue, the way
they should treated and integrated in the models we use to make predictions, or to design public
policies remains an open issue.
In this session, we explore and critically assess new ways of dealing with deep uncertainty in thecontext of environmental decision-making and climate change economics in particular.

Model Uncertainty in Climate Change EconomicsLoïc Berger, ; Massimo Marinacci, Bocconi University

Ambiguity Aversion, Modern Bayesianism and Small Worlds

Phoebe Koundouri, School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; CCCEP,
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; International Center for Research on theEnvironment and the Economy (ICRE8), Greece; Nikitas Pittis, University of Piraeus; Panagiotis
Samartzis, zDepartment of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece; School of
Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; International Center for Research on
the Environment and the Economy, Greece; Nikolaos Englezos, Department of Banking and Financial
Management, University of Piraeus, Greece; International Center for Research on the Environment andthe Economy (ICRE8), Greece; Andreas Papandreou, Athens University

Managing the precaution-efficiency trade-off with a flexible margin of safety
Daniel Heyen, London School of Economics and Political Science

THEMATIC SESSION: NEW DIRECTIONS IN SOCIALDISCOUNTING: FROM FINANCE TO PHILOSOPHY

Room: Handels: Aulan

Organizer(s): Antony Millner, London School of Economics and Political Science
Chair: Antony Millner, London School of Economics and Political Science

The social discount rate converts the future costs and benefits of public projects into present values,
and thus has a substantial impact on the evaluation of policies with long-run consequences, e.g.
climate change mitigation. This thematic session will discuss recent developments in the theory andpractice of social discounting, with an emphasis on environmental applications. The session will havea pedagogical flavour, drawing on the expertise of researchers who approach the study of social
discount rates from a variety of perspectives, including finance, philosophy, social choice, and policy
practice.

Ethical asset valuation and the good society
Christian Gollier, IDEI, Université de Toulouse

Discounting and the Social Cost of Carbon
Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland

Separability, discounting, and population ethics
John Broome, University of Oxford

Discounting, disagreement, and social choice

Antony Millner, London School of Economics and Political Science

THEMATIC SESSION: REFORMING THE EU ETS WITH A
MINIMUM AUCTION PRICE

Room: Handels: Volvo

Organizer(s): Cameron Hepburn, Oxford University
Chair: Cameron Hepburn, Oxford University

The EU Emissions Trading System has been characterized by chronically low allowances prices thatare below the level necessary to drive new investment, leaving some member states to pursue
overlapping policies. The European Commission has introduced a market stability reserve, but thus
far the introduction of a minimum auction (reserve) price has been avoided. This collection of papers
examines the arguments for and against a minimum price in emissions trading programs, with focus
on the EU. The first paper provides a sweeping review of the need for a price floor in trading
programs, especially in view of intertemporal efficiency. The second provides a deep engagementwith the arguments against a minimum price from the perspective of law and economics. The third
examines the influence that a minimum price would have, measured from a welfare perspective andwith respect to distributional outcomes. The fourth examines the properties of coalitions that mightform within the EU to implement a minimum price through actions taken at the member state level.
Together, these papers provide a rigorous and comprehensive treatment of an important potential
reform of the EU trading program, with theoretical and practical relevance.

Decarbonization and EU ETS Reform: The role of a carbon price floor

Christian Flachsland, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC);
Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Mercator Research Institute on Global
Commons and Climate Change, Berlin Institute of Technology; Nicolas Koch, Mercator Research Instituteon Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC); Ulrike Kornek, Mercator Research Institute on Global
Commons and Climate Change (MCC); Michael Pahle, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research(PIK); Christoph Wolff, European Climate Foundation; Lisa Katharina Schmid, Ecologic; Anna Leipprand,
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)

Preserving the integrity of the EU ETS under unilateral action

Michael Pahle, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the
Future; Oliver Tietjen, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Christian Flachsland, Mercator
Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC); Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institutefor Climate Impact Research, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change,
Berlin Institute of Technology

The Legal and Economic Case for an Auction Reserve Price in the EU Emissions Trading
SystemCarolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future; Leonie Reins, Tilburg University; Dallas Burtraw, Resources
for the Future; Asa Löfgren, University of Gothenburg; Lars Zetterberg, IVL Swedish Environmental
Research Institute; Michael Mehling, MIT; Stefan Weishaar, University of Groningen; Kati Kulovesi,
University of Eastern Finland; Harro van Asselt, University of Eastern Finland

Emissions reserve price options for EU member states

Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future; Christoph Böhringer, University of Oldenburg

THEMATIC SESSION: SUSTAINABLE ELECTRICITY FOR ALL

Room: Handels: SKF

Organizer(s): Shoibal Chakravarty, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment;
Eswaran Somanathan, Indian Statistical Institute
Chair: Shoibal Chakravarty, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment

Determinants of Enterprises Use of Energy Efficient Technologies: Evidence from Urban
Ethiopia

Sied Hassen, Environment and Development Initiative; Ethiopian Development Research Institute; Tagel
Gebrehiwot, Ethiopian Development Research Institute; Tiruwork Arega, Ethiopian Development
Research InstitutePreferences for Improved Electricity Services in Developing Countries
Tensay Hadush Meles, Mekelle University and University College Dublin

The Levelized Costs of Electricity Generation by the CDM Power Projects

Shaikh Rahman, Texas Tech University; Randall Spalding-Fecher, Carbon Limits A/S; Erik Haites,
Margaree Consultants; Grant Kirkman, United Nations Climate Change Secretariat

TRANSPORT

Chair: Snorre Kverndokk, Frisch Centre

Room: Handels: F44

The Impact of High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes on Vehicle Miles Traveled
Sharon Shewmake, Western Washington University
Discussant: Davide Cerruti, ETH Zürich

The impact of policy awareness: Evidence from vehicle registration taxes in Switzerland
Davide Cerruti, ETH Zürich; Claudio Daminato, ETH Zürich; Massimo Filippini, ETH Zürich
Discussant: Jorge Bonilla, Universidad de los Andes

Should we blame buses? Bus strikes and air quality
Jorge Bonilla, Universidad de los Andes
Discussant: Snorre Kverndokk, Frisch Centre

Will I change my driving habits if a neighbor buys an emissions-free car? Unintended effects
of environmental policies
Snorre Kverndokk, Frisch Centre; Jon Hovi, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo; Erik
Figenbaum, Institute of Transport Economics

Discussant: Sharon Shewmake, Western Washington University

VALUATION: METHOD

Chair: Roy Brouwer, The Water Institute / University of Waterloo

Room: Handels: B32

A multiple indicator solution approach to endogeneity in discrete-choice models forenvironmental valuation

David Hoyos, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU); Petr Mariel, University of the BasqueCountry (UPV/EHU); Alaitz Artabe, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU); Angelo Guevara,
Universidad de Chile
Discussant: Klaus Glenk, Scotland's Rural College

Are Willingness to Pay Estimates Derived from Discrete Choice Experiments Plausible? An
Investigation of Overshooting Using a Simple Criterion

Klaus Glenk, Scotland's Rural College; Jürgen Meyerhoff, TU Berlin; Sergio Colombo, Institute ofAgricultural Research and Training (IFAPA); Michela Faccioli, The James Hutton Institute; the Universityof Exeter
Discussant: Roy Brouwer, The Water Institute / University of Waterloo

Income inequality and benefit transfers: Evidence and counter-evidence

Mehmet Kutluay, IVM, VU University Amsterdam; Roy Brouwer, The Water Institute / University ofWaterloo; Richard Tol, Department of Economics, University of Sussex

Testing Hypothetical Bias in a Field Experiment

Roy Brouwer, The Water Institute / University of Waterloo; Solomon Tarfasa, Hawassa University
Discussant: David Hoyos, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

WATER: BEHAVIOR

Room: Haga: Dragonen

Chair: Philippe Le Coënt, Center of Environmental Economics of Montpellier, INRA

Spreading the word: Effects from a nudge on residential water conservation. A field
experiment in small urban villages in Colombia
Jose David Lopez, Los Andes University
Discussant: Daniel Brent, Louisiana State University

Price Perceptions in Water Demand

Daniel Brent, Louisiana State University; Michael Ward, Monash University
Discussant: Noemi Padrón-Fumero, Universidad de La Laguna

The impact of smart meters on water consumption: evidence from Canary Islands

Noemi Padrón-Fumero, Universidad de La Laguna; Eugenio Diaz Farina, Universidad de la Laguna;
Claudio Daminato, ETH Zürich; Massimo Filippini, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Philippe Le Coënt, Center of Environmental Economics of Montpellier, INRA

Heterogeneous Impacts of Social Comparison Nudges on Farmer’s Water Consumption:
Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial using Smart Meters

Philippe Le Coënt, Center of Environmental Economics of Montpellier, INRA; Sylvain Chabé-Ferret,
Toulouse School of Economics; Arnaud Reynaud, Toulouse School of Economics; Julie Subervie, FrenchNational Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
Discussant: Jose David Lopez, Los Andes University

Coffee breakThursday, 10.15-10.45

AwardsThursday, 10.45-11.15- AERE Publication of Enduring Quality

Room: Handels / Haga

Room: Smyrna- The Ralph C. dArge and Allen V. Kneese Award for Outstanding Publication in the Journal of the
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists- EAERE Award for Outstanding Publication in the Journal Environmental and Resource Economics- European Achievement Award for Researchers in Environmental Economics under the Age of Fourty- EAERE Award for ERC Grants Laureates in the field of environmental and resource economics

Plenary

PLENARY
Meredith Fowlie: Carbon Pricing in the Real World

Thursday, 11.15-12.15
Room: Smyrna

Chair: Carolyn Fischer
Economists generally agree that carbon pricing should be a core component of any policy response to
climate change. But this compelling economic idea has not been easy to translate into politically feasible
policy. Over the past two decades, experimentation around the world has been progressing slowly andwith mixed results. A growing body of empirically-motivated research is helping us to understand how
these carbon pricing programs are working. I will unpack some of the empirical evidence on carbon
pricing impacts across a range of economic outcomes. Recent research also focuses our attention onsome enduring challenges. I will consider, in particular, the challenges inherent in carbon pricing
programs that regulate only a subset of the sources contributing to the global climate change problem.
The tenuous link between economic research on emissions ”leakage” and the real-world policy response
raises some important questions about our role as economists in moving the policy implementation ballforward.

LunchMEETINGS
IAERE meeting (Room: D32)

EDE Editorial Board Meeting* (Room: C31)
ERE Editorial Board Meeting* (Room: C32)

JAERE Editorial Board Meeting* (Room: C35)
REEP Editorial Board Meeting* (Room: C33)
*Invitation only

Thursday, 12.15-13.45
Room: Handels

Poster session
POSTER SESSION

Thursday, 12.15-13.45

Room: Handels: C34“Comply or Explain” Type Meta-regulation as an Alternative of Conventional Regulation

Takuro Miyamoto, Tohoku Gakuin University; Ryo Ishida, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of FinanceJapan

Addressing the institutional challenges of groundwater management in semi-arid areas with
rapid urbanization – Results of a Framed Field Experiment
Johannes Wegmann, University of Goettingen; Oliver Mußhoff, Georg-August-University Göttingen

An economic comparison of adaptation strategies towards a drought-induced risk of forest
decline: financial vs. carbon balance
Sandrine Brèteau-Amores, Bureau for Economic Theory and Applications BETA (INRA); Marielle
Brunette, INRA; Hendrik Davi, Écologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes (INRA)

Are households' residential preferences consistent with biodiversity potential of different
urban contexts?
Gengyang TU, Grenoble School of Management; Camille Regnier, Université de Bourgogne-FrancheComté; Mohamed Hilal, INRA; Sophie Legras, INRA; Cecile Detang-dessendre, INRA

The value of wild pollination services to crop productivity: What does gender of thesmallholder farmer got to do with it?

Byela Tibesigwa, Environment for Development (EfD), University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Juha
Siikamäki, International Union for Conservation of Nature; Razack Lokina, University of Dar es Saalam;
Jessica Alvsilver, EPA

Bioenergy Prospects in Mexico: Biorefineries at the West Region
Hector Nuñez, CIDE

Flood risk perception and housing prices. A hedonic analysis for Boulder County, Colorado

Hannah Hennighausen, University of Graz / Wegener Center; Jordan Suter, Colorado State University

Green Nudge in Practice: Application to Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)

Catherine Boulatoff, Dalhousie University; Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dalhousie University, IZA and HICN

Green, yellow or red lemons? An experiment on the perception of houses energy labels.
Edouard Civel, Paris-Nanterre University; Nathaly Cruz, Paris-Nanterre University

Household Electricity Demand Under Mixed Price System
YANG ZHOU, Fudan university

Insurance and forest rotation decisions under storm risk

Marielle Brunette, INRA; Stéphane COUTURE, INRA MIAT; Patrice Loisel, MISTEA

International Environmental Agreements Under an Evolutionary Mechanism of Imitation
and Asymmetric Countries
Hsiao-Chi CHEN, Dept. of Economics, National Taipei University; Yunshyong Chow, Institute ofMathematics, Academia Sinica; Shi-Miin Liu, National Taipei University

Investigating the preferences of remote beneficiaries for sustainable tourism development:
the case of Fiji
Gaetano Grilli, Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science - Cefas

Land Resource Utilization System and Risk-coping Strategies on the Mongolian Plateau

Shunji Oniki, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences; Kadirbyek Dagys,
Mongolian University of Life Sciences; Fulin Du, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University; Gensuo B, Inner
Mongolia Agricultural University

Market-level implications of regulating forest carbon storage and albedo for climate change
mitigation
Aapo Rautiainen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke); Jussi Lintunen, Natural Resources
Institute Finland (Luke); Jussi Uusivuori, Natural Resources Institute Finland

Migrant remittances can reduce the potential of forest transitions

Daniel Ospina, Stockholm University; Garry Peterson, Stockholm university; Anne-Sophie Crepin, Beijer
Institute of Ecological Economics

Optimal energy mix under uncertainty for Ghana

MICHAEL OWUSU APPIAH, City University of Hong Kong

Reallocating Water along a River: A Multilateral Bargaining Experiment with a Veto Player
Zhi Li, Xiamen University; Xin Zhang, Xiamen University; Wenchao Xu, Xiamen University

Repeated Conservation Auctions and the (In)efficiency of Withholding Information

Greg Smith, LEEP, University of Exeter; Brett Day, LEEP, University of Exeter; Amy Binner, University of
ExeterSubjective well-being, energy poverty and the combination of objective and subjective
indicators
Rinaldo Brau, University of Cagliari; Erica Delugas, University of Cagliari

The effects of forest change on agricultural productivity: Evidence from Indonesia

Yuki Yamamoto, Nagasaki University; Yuichi Ishimura, Osaka International University; Yosuke
Shigetomi, Nagasaki University; Mitsuru Hattori, Nagasaki University

The effects of migration and pollution externality on cognitive skills in Caribbean SIDS: a
Theoretical analysis
Lesly Cassin, Université Paris Nanterre

The Impact of the Crisis-Induced Reduction in Air Pollution on Infant Mortality in India: A
Policy PerspectiveOlexiy Kyrychenko, CERGE-EIThe Stick and the Carrot: Explaining the decision to participate in the Water Producer
Programme (Brazil)

Leidimari Neves do Prado, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) - France; Serge
Garcia, Bureau for Economic Theory and Applications (BETA); Pablo Andrés-Domenech, AgroParisTech

Value of Statistical Life connected with seismic risk. Empirical evidence from Italy

Andrea Rampa, IRCrES-CNR; Massimilano Mazzanti, University of Ferrara; Anna Montini, Università di
Bologna; Nicolò Barbieri, University of Ferrara

Parallell sessions 8
Thursday June 28, 13.45-15.30

Parallel session 8
AGRICULTURE

Thursday, 13.45-15.30

Chair: Paolo Agnolucci, University College London

Room: Haga: B228

A Viable and Cost-Effective Weather Index Insurance for Rice in Indonesia

Aditya Kusuma, Victoria University of Wellington; Ilan Noy, Victoria University of Wellington; BethannaJackson, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
Discussant: Haochi Zheng, University of North Dakota

CRP or No-till? Carbon Storage in Agricultural land, a case study in Minnesota, U.S.
Haochi Zheng, University of North Dakota
Discussant: Louise Kessler, Grantham Research Institute, LSE

What are the impacts of droughts on economic growth? Evidence from U.S. statesLouise Kessler, Grantham Research Institute, LSE
Discussant: Paolo Agnolucci, University College London

The growing impact of climate change on European crops

Vincenzo De Lipsis, University College London; Paolo Agnolucci, University College London
Discussant: Aditya Kusuma, Victoria University of Wellington

AGRICULTURE AND WATER

Chair: Anita Chaudhry, California State University, Chico

Room: Handels: F45

Fertilizer Use and Water Quality in the United States

Jayash Paudel, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Christine Crago, University of Massachusetts
AmherstDiscussant: Julie Subervie, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)

Do European agri-environment measures help reduce herbicide use? Evidence fromviticulture in France

Julie Subervie, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA); Laure Kuhfuss, University of
St Andrews - James Hutton InstituteDiscussant: Linda Fernandez, Virginia Commonwealth University

Water Quality Decisions and Policy for an Interstate Watershed

Linda Fernandez, Virginia Commonwealth University; Daniel Macgarvey, Virginia Commonwealth
University
Discussant: Anita Chaudhry, California State University, Chico

Agricultural water trading restrictions and drought resilience

Anita Chaudhry, California State University, Chico; Daniel Bigelow, Economic Research Service; Jennifer
Ifft, Cornell University; Steven Wallander,
Discussant: Jayash Paudel, University of Massachusetts Amherst

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Room: Handels: B22

Chair: Benjamin Ouvrard, INRA

Tragedy of the Commons and Evolutionary Games in Social Networks: The Economics ofSocial Punishment
Jorge marco, University of Girona; Renan Goetz, University of Girona
Discussant: Greer Gosnell, London School of Economics and Political Science

Communicating Resourcefully: A Natural Field Experiment on Environmental Framing andCognitive Dissonance in Going PaperlessGreer Gosnell, London School of Economics and Political Science
Discussant: Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Institute for Environmental Systems Research Osnabrueck

Setting new behavioural standards: Sustainability pledges and how conformity influences
their outreach
Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Institute for Environmental Systems Research Osnabrueck
Discussant: Benjamin Ouvrard, INRA

Nudging with heterogeneity in terms of environmental sensitivity : a public goods
experiment in networks
Anne Stenger, BETA, INRA Université de Strasbourg; Benjamin Ouvrard, INRA
Discussant: Jorge marco, University of Girona

CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACT

Room: Handels: D33

Chair: Andrew Crane-Droesch, US Department of Agriculture/Economic Research Service

The Effect of Temperature on High-stakes Decision Making: Evidence from the National
College Entrance Examination in China

Qu Tang, Jinan University; Peng Zhang, School of Accounting and Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University; Joshua Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego; Yingquan Song, Peking University
Discussant: Susana Ferreira, University of Georgia

Well-being Effects of Extreme Weather Events in the United States

Susana Ferreira, University of Georgia; Mona Ahmadiani, University of Georgia
Discussant: Soheil Shayegh, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Climate change impact on labor supply

Soheil Shayegh, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; Vasiliki Manousi, Athens University of Economics andBusiness (AUEB); Shouro Dasgupta, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici and Università
Ca' Foscari Venezia
Discussant: Andrew Crane-Droesch, US Department of Agriculture/Economic Research Service

Machine Learning Approaches to Crop Yield Prediction and Climate Change Impact
Assessment
Andrew Crane-Droesch, US Department of Agriculture/Economic Research Service
Discussant: Qu Tang, Jinan University

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Room: Handels: C24

Chair: Dean Lueck, Indiana University

Measuring efficiency when producing intended outputs and unintended ones
Finn Forsund, University of Oslo
Discussant: Dietrich Earnhart, University of Kansas

Transboundary Pollution and Municipal Investments

Manuel Pulido-Velasquez, University of Kansas; Dietrich Earnhart, University of Kansas
Discussant: Simone Borghesi, University of Siena and FSR Climate - European University InstituteWith or without you: A network analysis of Brexit implications for the EU ETS

Simone Borghesi, University of Siena and FSR Climate - European University Institute; Andrea Flori,
IMT, School for Advanced Studies, Lucca
Discussant: Dean Lueck, Indiana University

The Origins and Size and Environmental Agencies

Dean Lueck, Indiana University; Dominic Parker, University of Wisconsin
Discussant: Finn Forsund, University of Oslo

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: GAMESChair: Iddo Kan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Room: Handels: B33

Asymmetric Innovation Agreements under Environmental Regulation
Emilson Silva, University of Alberta; Naoto Aoyama, Aomori Public University
Discussant: Felix Munoz-Garcia, Washington State University

Common Pool Resources with Endogenous Equity Shares

Kiriti Kanjilal, Washington State University; Felix Munoz-Garcia, Washington State University
Discussant: Amrita Ray Chaudhuri, University of Winnipeg

Green Technology and Patents in the Presence of Green Consumers

Amrita Ray Chaudhuri, University of Winnipeg; Corinne Langinier, University of Alberta
Discussant: Iddo Kan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A Two-Pronged Control of Natural Resources: Prices and Quantities with Lobbying

Iddo Kan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Israel Finkelshtain, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Yoav
Kislev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Discussant: Emilson Silva, University of Alberta

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: IMPACT

Chair: V. Brian Viard, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Room: Handels: D32

Does Road Expansion Help Mitigate Congestion in China? An Evaluation of VehicleKilometers Traveled
H. Allen Klaiber, The Ohio State University; Wei Chen, The Ohio State University
Discussant: Corbett Grainger, University of Wisconsin

The Impact of Air Pollution on Labor Supply in China

Corbett Grainger, University of Wisconsin; Mingxuan Fan, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Discussant: Hussain Alshammasi, Duke University

Air Pollution and Averting Behavior Disparities: Evidence from NYC Transportation
Hussain Alshammasi, Duke University
Discussant: V. Brian Viard, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Air Pollution and Manufacturing Firm Productivity: Nationwide Estimates for China

Shihe Fu, Xiamen University; V. Brian Viard, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business; Peng Zhang,
School of Accounting and Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Discussant: H. Allen Klaiber, The Ohio State University

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: REGULATION
Chair: Pauli Lappi, Ca' Foscari University

Room: Handels: C22

Optimality of Environmental Policy Mixes in the Presence of More than One Externality andof Strategic Firms
Nahid Masoudi, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Discussant: Chuck Mason, University of Wyoming

Transboundary Externalities and Reciprocal Taxes: A Differential Game Approach
Chuck Mason, University of Wyoming
Discussant: Philipp Richter, TU Dresden

Environmental Policy and Firm Selection in the Open Economy
Philipp Richter, TU Dresden; Udo Kreickemeier, TU Dresden
Discussant: Pauli Lappi, Ca' Foscari University

A model of optimal extraction and rehabilitation

Pauli Lappi, Ca' Foscari University
Discussant: Nahid Masoudi, Memorial University of Newfoundland

HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

Chair: Menuka Karki, Kathmandu University

Room: Handels: B23

The Economic Benefits versus Environmental Costs of India’s Coal-Fired Power Plants

Geoffrey Barrows, Ecole Polytechnique; Teevrat Garg, University of California, San Diego; Akshaya Jha,
Carnegie Mellon University
Discussant: Emily Pakhtigian, Duke University

Joint impacts of indoor and outdoor air pollution on health in Indonesia

Emily Pakhtigian, Duke University; Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University; Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo,
National University of Singapore
Discussant: Menuka Karki, Kathmandu University

Impact of Outdoor Air Pollution on People’s Respiratory Health in Kathmandu, Nepal – A
Geo-Spatial Analysis
Menuka Karki, Kathmandu University; Alok Bohara, University of New Mexico; Keshav Bhattarai,
University of Central Missouri
Discussant: Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland, Resources for the Future

The Global Economic Costs of Pollution and Pollution-related Diseases

Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future; Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland, Resources for the
FutureDiscussant: Geoffrey Barrows, Ecole Polytechnique

NATURAL CAPITAL AND GREEN NATIONAL ACCOUNTING
Chair: Silvia Ferrini, University of Siena

Room: Handels: F44

How to assess sustainability by merging ecosystem service accounts with economic accounts.
The case of water purification in Europe
Alessandra La Notte, European Commission - Joint Research Centre; Silvana Dalmazzone, University ofTorinoDiscussant: Jasper Meya, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Inter- and Intragenerational Distribution and the Valuation of Natural Capital

Jasper Meya, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Moritz Drupp, University of Hamburg; Stefan
Baumgärtner, University of Freiburg; Martin Quaas, University of Kiel
Discussant: Joshua Abbott, Resource Economist, Associate Professor, Arizona State University

Valuing Multiple Natural Capital Stocks Under Correlated Volatility

Joshua Abbott, Resource Economist, Associate Professor, Arizona State University; Eli Fenichel, Yale
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Seong Do Yun, Mississippi State University
Discussant: Silvia Ferrini, University of Siena

National trends and regional differences in an enhanced Genuine Savings indicator for Italy

Paola Biasi, University of Siena; Silvia Ferrini, University of Siena; Simone Borghesi, University of Siena
and FSR Climate - European University Institute; Massimo Di Matteo, University of Siena; Benedetto
Rocchi, University of Florence
Discussant: Alessandra La Notte, European Commission - Joint Research Centre

NATURAL DISASTERS

Chair: Daniel Osberghaus, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

Room: Handels: F43

Weather Shocks and Labor Allocation: Evidence from Northeastern Brazil

Danyelle Branco, Universidade Federal de Viçosa; José Gustavo Feres, Institute for Applied Economic
Research
Discussant: Hajare EL HADRI, Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans

Natural Disaster and Exports of Agricultural Products in Developing Countries

Hajare EL HADRI, Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans; daniel mirza, Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans;ISABELLE RABAUD, Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans

Discussant: Marcella Veronesi, University of Verona and ETH Zurich

EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS, MORTALITY, AND ENERGY PRICES: A NATURAL EXPERIMENTFROM JAPAN
Marcella Veronesi, University of Verona and ETH Zurich; Shinsuke Uchida, Nagoya City University
Discussant: Daniel Osberghaus, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

The causal effect of flood experience on climate engagement: evidence from search requests
for green electricity
Daniel Osberghaus, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW); Christina Demski, School of
Psychology, Cardiff University
Discussant: Danyelle Branco, Universidade Federal de Viçosa

NUCLEAR POWER

Chair: Sebastian Wegel, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin)

Room: Handels: C33

How is internal radiation exposure risk evaluated at the markets? Perceived quality
degradation of Fukushima peach
SHIGERU MATSUMOTO, Aoyama Gakuin University; Hoang Viet Ngu, Senior Lecturer
Discussant: David Adler, Carnegie Mellon University

Considering the Nuclear Option: Hidden Benefits and Internalized Social Costs of Nuclear
Power in the U.S. Since 1970

David Adler, Carnegie Mellon University; Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University; Edson Severnini,
Carnegie Mellon University
Discussant: TIm Scherwath, German Institute for Economic Research

Identifying bottlenecks for an efficient nuclear decommissioning – An integrated view on thelogistics of the German Nuclear Phase-Out
Roman Mendelevitch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; TIm Scherwath, German Institute for Economic
Research; Ben Wealer, Technische Universität Berlin
Discussant: Sebastian Wegel, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin)

Processing high-level radioactive waste in the U.S. - A mathematical model

Victoria Czempinski, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin); Sebastian Wegel, Berlin Institute ofTechnology (TU Berlin); Christian von Hirschhausen, DIW Berlin / TU Berlin; Pao-Yu Oei, TU Berlin; Ben
Wealer, Technische Universität Berlin
Discussant: SHIGERU MATSUMOTO, Aoyama Gakuin University

POLICY SESSION: CONSERVATION EVALUATION 3.0:
WHAT’S NEXT FOR POLICY ANALYSIS?
Chair: Katharine Sims, Amherst College

Room: Handels: E43

The last decade has seen a rapid increase in research devoted to understanding how conservation
policies across the globe impact both natural resources and the economic well-being of affected
communities. Researchers have applied the best available econometric tools to estimate plausibly
causal effects of protected areas, payments for ecosystem services, sustainable forest certification,community-based management, deforestation-free supply chains and other policies. In 2012,
researchers called for ”Conservation Evaluation 2.0”: a research agenda with more focus onunderstanding causal mechanisms, context and heterogeneity in impacts, spillovers, and the joint
analysis of economic and environmental impacts. This panel will take stock of progress towards thesegoals and identify key directions for the future of conservation evaluation. Audience participation is
welcome, particularly by practitioners engaged in conservation policy. Invited panelists are: Erin Sills(NC State University), Renzo Giudice (University of Bonn and formerly at the Ministry ofEnvironment, Peru), Jan Bouml;rner (University of Bonn), Daniela Miteva (The Ohio State University),
Juan Robalino (CATIE-Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center-Costa Rica), andAlex Pfaff (Duke University).
Panelist(s): Katharine Sims, Amherst College;
Erin Sills, North Carolina State University;
Renzo Giudice, University of Bonn / formerly Ministry of Environment, Peru;
Jan Börner, Center for Development Research /ILR - University of Bonn;
Daniela Miteva, The Ohio State University;
Juan Robalino, Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza;
Alexander Pfaff, Duke University

POLICY SESSION: PRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMSIN LATIN AMERICA: KNOWLEDGE GAPS AND RESEARCHNEEDS TO INFORM BETTER POLICY-­MAKIN

Room: Handels: E45

Organizer(s): Alejandro Lopez-Feldman, Chair, Department of Economics, Centro de Estudios yDocencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City, Mexico

Chair: Alejandro Lopez-Feldman, Chair, Department of Economics, Centro de Estudios y Docencia
Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City, Mexico

The session will provide a forum in which researchers and policy-makers will be able to have a
dialogue about the most important environmental problems that Latin America currently faces. More
importantly, it will provide an opportunity to identify knowledge gaps as well as to discuss ways inwhich policy-makers and researchers can interact in order to achieve the implementation ofevidence-based environmental policies in the region. Finally, this session will be a perfectopportunity to present the recently created Latin American Association of Environmental andResource Economists (LAERE) to a broad audience. One of LAEREs objectives is precisely to foster thecollaboration between policy-makers and researchers in Latin America to design better
environmental policies.
Panelist(s): Alejandro Lopez-Feldman, Chair, Department of Economics, Centro de Estudios yDocencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City, Mexico;
Francisco Alpizar, EfD Central America at CATIE;
Rodrigo Arriagada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile;
Allen Blackman, Inter-American Development Bank;
Carlos Chavez, Universidad de Talca;
Santiago Guerrero, OECD;
José Luis Samaniego, CEPAL;
María Alejandra Vélez, Universidad de los Andes

POLICY SESSION: REAL OPTIONS AND POLICY RESPONSES:CASES FOR GAIN AND LOSE FROM DELAYED DECISIONS

Room: Handels: B44

Organizer(s): Justus Wesseler, Wageningen University; David Zilberman, University of California,
BerkeleyChair: David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

The presentation discusses the effects of irreversibility on policy decisions and shows why stressing
uncertainty can be an effective strategy to delay technical change which has further economic as wellas policy implications. The case of Vitamin-A enriched rice ( Golden Rice ) is used as an illustrative
example. The model presented assumes uncertainty about Angst in response to a policy decision,
which has negative consequences for the decision maker (e..g. not being reelected). This provides
incentives for postponing the decision. Solving the model using standard real option methods showsthat one unit of Angst requires much more than one unit of benefit to compensate for. The provides
an explanation why it is easier to lobby against a new technology by raising uncertainties about
possible negative implications than to lobby in favor of a specific technology. This is a challenge for
implementing appropriate policies to reduce potential biases as the costs can be high as illustrated by
the example of Golden Rice .
Panelist(s): Justus Wesseler, Wageningen University;
David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley;
Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State University;
Aart de Zeeuw, Tilburg University

POLICY SESSION: REGULATORY ANALYSIS AND THE TRUMPADMINISTRATION

Room: Handels: Malmsten

Organizer(s): Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future; Richard Morgenstern, Resources for the
FutureChair: Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future

Description of the theme: In its first year, the Trump Administration has introduced several new
measures designed to modify or change the emphasis from the well-established practices forregulatory analysis of new rules in the US. This panel will explore in depth the issues posed by these
new measures and identify some of the challenges that lie ahead. Specific topics to include: how todefine and estimate benefits and costs for rules being repealed; how to conduct retrospective analysis
of current and future rules; the use of whole economy modeling in regulatory analysis; improving
benefit-cost analysis of toxic chemicals.
Panelist(s): Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future;
Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University;
Richard Morgenstern, Resources for the Future;
Christoph Rheinberger, TSE

POLICY SESSION: SUSTAINING THE HUMAN WELL-BEING
THROUGH ADDRESSING POLICY REBOUNDS AND FAILURES
FOR HEALTHY NATURAL CAPITAL - STRATEGIES AND WAY
FORWARD

Room: Haga: B225

Organizer(s): Haripriya Gundimeda, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Chair: Haripriya Gundimeda, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

The importance of effective natural capital policies to enhance the human well-being has been wellargued and established by several international assessments and initiatives. The policy makers haveinitiated several policies as they recognize the important role played by the natural capital. However,
several policy failures due to spatial and temporal nature of the problem and spatial rebounds lead toineffectiveness of policies for some natural resources ( for e.g. in case of biodiversity, forests, etc).

There is a need for coordinated policies and several examples illustrate that a lack of coordination
could negatively impact the well-being. Examples of some such in-congruent policies includeinadequate recognition of the role of natural capital in the GDP, underestimation of the real value ofprotected areas, food security policies impacting the human health, non-recognition of the negative
externalities from agriculture and food systems among others. In this session, we argue the need forpolicy coordination that takes into account the cross-sectoral spill overs so as to minimize therebound effect on natural capital. We bring various perspectives on how lack of spatially coordinatedand misaligned policies impact natural capital and hence the human well-being through experiencesfrom the project on The economics of ecosystems and Biodiversity” (TEEB), the TEEB for agriculturaland food systems and the Inclusive Wealth Report. The discussion would be centered around sharing
policy experiences from agriculture, ecosystems, industry, measuring wealth and also the country
specific studies on the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity. The session would be highly
relevant to the debate on effective policies for resources and environment.
Panelist(s): Haripriya Gundimeda, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay;
Pavan Sukhdev, President, WWF International Board;
Alexander Mueller, Study Leader TEEB agrifood;Pushpam Kumar, Economic Division, UN Environment, Nairobi;
Shunsuke Managi, Kyushu University

POLICY SESSION: THE EXPANDING SCOPE OF CARBONPRICING: DESIGN ISSUES AND IMPLEMENTATIONCHALLENGES

Room: Handels: Aulan

Organizer(s): Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley

When the European Emission Trading System (ETS) was introduced in 2005, approximately 5% of
global carbon emissions were subject to some form of carbon pricing. When China introduces its
national ETS in 2018, the scope of carbon pricing cover almost a quarter of the world#39;s carbon
emissions. This panel will bring together leading scholars who have been actively involved with thedesign and implementation of carbon pricing policies in Europe, the northeastern United States,
California, Canada, and China. Panelists will comment on the sequence of events that laid thefoundation for these carbon pricing programs, the role that economic evidence has or has not played,and policy durability concerns. The discussion will emphasize lessons learned, research priorities,
and the policy challenges ahead.
Panelist(s): Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future;
Larry Goulder, Stanford University;
Ottmar Edenhofer, MCC Berlin and PIK Potsdam;
Andrew Leach, University of Alberta;
Xiliang Zhang, Institute of Energy, Environment, and the Economy, Tsinghua University

RESOURCES: THEORY

Chair: Yacov Tsur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Room: Haga: Dragonen

The misreporting of oil reserves in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
during the 'fight for quotas'
Mathias Berthod, Paris School of Economics
Discussant: Jussi Lintunen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)

Competitive harvest in age-structured forests

Jussi Lintunen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Discussant: Cees Withagen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

An oligopoly fringe non renewable resource game in the presence of a renewable substituteHassan Benchekroun, McGill University; Gerard van der Meijden, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Cees
Withagen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Discussant: Yacov Tsur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Resource Windfalls and Public Debt: The Role of Political Myopia

Yacov Tsur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ohad Raveh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Discussant: Mathias Berthod, Paris School of Economics

STATED PREFERENCES: METHOD
Chair: Jürgen Meyerhoff, TU Berlin

Room: Handels: B32

Choice Certainty, Consistency, and Monotonicity in Discrete Choice Experiments

Ivana Logar, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Matteo Mattmann,
Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Roy Brouwer, The Water Institute /University of Waterloo
Discussant: Susan Chilton, Newcastle University

Using the veil of ignorance to incorporate citizen preferences in willingness-to-pay values.

Morgan Beeson, Newcastle University; Susan Chilton, Newcastle University; Hugh Metcalf, Newcastle
University; Jytte Seested Nielsen, Newcastle University
Discussant: Petr Mariel, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

A more flexible model or simply more effort: on the use of correlated random parameters inapplied choice studies
Petr Mariel, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU); Jürgen Meyerhoff, TU Berlin
Discussant: Jürgen Meyerhoff, TU Berlin

Can cheap talk scripts in combination with opt-out reminders nail down fat yes-tails inchoice experiments?

Jürgen Meyerhoff, TU Berlin; Christine Bertram, IfW Kiel; Klaus Glenk, Scotland's Rural College; Katrin
Rehdanz, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel
Discussant: Ivana Logar, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

THEMATIC SESSION: CLIMATE AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE

Room: Handels: SKF

Organizer(s): Thang Dao, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change;
Matthias Kalkuhl, MCC Berlin
Chair: Thang Dao, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change

Population growth is documented as one of the main causes of natural resource depletion andenvironmental problems, as well as one of key driving forces of global emissions. Integrated
assessment models as primary tool for guiding policymakers assume exogenous population
trajectories. An emerging although small empirical literature provides evidence that fertility,
however, is affected by environmental factors as well. Beyond Malthus, there is surprisingly little

analytical research integrating these two issues environment and endogenous demographic change
when discussing the long run development. This thematic session consists of four fresh research
papers: Bruno Lanz and Simon Dietz present on economic growth, population and agriculture in achanging climate; Reyer Gerlagh, Veronica Lupi and Marzio Galeoti discuss on family planning under
the context of climate change; Jaimes, Reyer Gerlagh, and Ali Motavasseli discuss on global
demographic change and climate policy; Thang Dao and Matthias Kalkuhl focus on gender biases ofenvironmental impacts and their implications for fertility and development.

Climate change, local resource, and the slow demographic transition in stagnant Africa

Thang Dao, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change; Matthias Kalkuhl, MCC
BerlinFamily Planning and Climate Change

Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg University; Veronica Lupi, University of Milan; Marzio Galeotti, University of
Milan

Economic growth, population growth and agriculture in a changing climate
Bruno Lanz, University of Neuchâtel; Simon Dietz, LSE

Global demographic change and climate policies

Richard Jaimes, Tilburg University; Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg University; Ali Motavasseli, Institute forManagement and Planning Studies

THEMATIC SESSION: COAL, GROWTH AND
ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES: UNDERSTANDING THE
SOCIAL COSTS OF CONTINUOUS COAL INVESTMENTS

Room: Handels: SEB

Organizer(s): Jan Steckel, MCC Berlin; Eswaran Somanathan, Indian Statistical Institute; Xiao-Bing
Zhang, Renmin University of China; Marc Jeuland, Duke University
Chair: Jan Steckel, MCC Berlin

Optimal policy for a polluting energy: A joint consideration of flow and stock externalities

Jing Xu, School of Public Finance and Taxation, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; XiaoBing Zhang, Renmin University of China

Social Costs of Power from Coal and Renewables in India

Eswaran Somanathan, Indian Statistical Institute; Shoibal Chakravarty, Ashoka Trust for Research in
Ecology and the Environment

Coal Investments and Economic Development - An Econometric Analysis

Lorenzo Montrone, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change; Matthias
Kalkuhl, MCC Berlin; Jan Steckel, MCC Berlin

THEMATIC SESSION: DIMENSIONS OF ADAPTATION AND
ITS POTENTIAL TO MITIGATE HARM TO AGRICULTURE
Organizer(s): Michael Roberts, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Room: Handels: E 44/GBJroom

Chair: Michael Roberts, University of Hawaii at Manoa

A number of studies have documented crop sensitivity to extreme events, like heat waves andflooding, extremes that will become increasingly frequent with climate change. At the same time,higher carbon dioxide concentrations could improve water use efficiency and grow yield potential.
Holding land use management practices constant, production will likely become more variable andmay decline on average, but there is considerable uncertainty. Land use and management, however, islikely to change with climate, responding both directly to the climate itself and indirectly to the way
climate change affects prices. This session will consider different aspects of behavioral response to
climate change, and how much these actions have the potential to reduce harm and take better
advantage of beneficial aspects of change, like higher carbon dioxide concentrations.

Climate Change Vulnerability of Future Calorific Supply
Ian Sue Wing, Boston University; Malcolm Mistry, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici;
Enrica De Cian, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici and University of Venice Ca’FoscariCommodity Prices and Volatility in Response to Anticipated Climate Change

Wolfram Schlenker, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Earth Institute, Columbia
University; Michael Roberts, University of Hawaii at Manoa; David Lobell, Stanford University; Ahn Nam
Tran, Allstate; Jarrod Welch, Charles River Associates

Adaptation to Climate Change: Disentangling Revenue and Crop Choice Responses in Long
Panel
A. John Woodill, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Michael Roberts, University of Hawaii at Manoa

THEMATIC SESSION: INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELING– ANALYTIC AND NUMERIC ADVANCES, LESSONS LEARNED,AND OPPORTUNITIESRoom: Handels: Volvo

Organizer(s): Christian Traeger, University of Oslo
Chair: Christian Traeger, University of Oslo

Integrated Assessment Modeling – Analytic and Numeric Advances, Lessons Learned, andOpportunities
David Anthoff, Economic and Social Research Institute; Valentina Bosetti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei;
John Hassler, IIES, Stockholm University; Christian Traeger, University of Oslo

THEMATIC SESSION: SOLAR GEOENGINEERING:PERSPECTIVES FROM ECONOMIC THEORY

Room: Handels: CG-room

Organizer(s): Gernot Wagner, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University;
Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chair: Gernot Wagner, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University

Optimal geoengineering experiments

Lassi Ahlvik, Norwegian School of Economics; Antti Iho, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)

Strategic Implications of Counter-Geoengineering: Clash, Cooperation, or Nonuse?

Daniel Heyen, London School of Economics and Political Science; Joshua Horton, Harvard University;

Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology

Compensating Harms from Solar Geoengineering: Index-Based Insurance as an Alternative to
Liability
Joshua Horton, Harvard University

An Economic Anatomy of Optimal Climate Policy

Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gernot Wagner, Harvard University Center for theEnvironment, Harvard University; David Keith, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

WATER USE

Chair: Peter Christensen, University of Illinois

Room: Haga: B210

Impacts of irrigation efficiency improvement on water use and water consumption: amicroeconomic approach.

Alfonso Expósito, University of Seville; Julio Berbel, University of Cordoba; Carlos Gutierrez-Martín,
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Córdoba
Discussant: Marie-estelle BINET, GAEL CNRSTHE INCIDENCE OF COMPLEX TARIFF SCHEMES AND INFORMATION ON WATERCONSUMPTION: A LABORATORY ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTMarie-estelle BINET, GAEL CNRS; Laurent DENANT-BOEMONT, CREM CNRS; Sabrina HAMMICHE,CREM CNRS
Discussant: Henrique Monteiro, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Are ill-informed residential water consumers less price-responsive?

Henrique Monteiro, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa; Rita Martins, CeBER and Faculty of
Economics, University of Coimbra; Esmeralda A. Ramalho, Department of Mathematics and CEMAPRE,
ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa; Joaquim J. S. Ramalho, Department of Economics and BRU-IUL, Instituto
Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)
Discussant: Peter Christensen, University of Illinois

Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, MichiganPeter Christensen, University of Illinois; David Keiser, Iowa State University; Gabriel Lade, Iowa State
University
Discussant: Alfonso Expósito, University of SevilleCoffee breakThursday, 15.30-16.00
Room: Handels / HagaEgg-timer sessions
Thursday June 28, 16.00-16.40

Egg-timer session

EGG-TIMER: AGRICULTURE

Thursday, 16.00-16.40

Chair: Lauren Rhodes, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Room: Handels: C24

Agri-environmental policy decentralization: theoretical analysis and application toabandoned wetland in Brittany
Francois Bareille, INRA, SMART-LERECO; Matteo Zavalloni, Unibo

Nudging farmers to comply with water protection rules – Experimental evidence from
Germany

Denise Peth, Georg-August-University Göttingen; Oliver Mußhoff, Georg-August-University Göttingen;Katja Funke, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; Norbert Hirschauer, Martin Luther University
Halle-Wittenberg

The Effect of Climate Change on Irrigated Agriculture: Water-Temperature Interactions andAdaptation in the Western U.S.
Xinde Ji, Virginia Tech; Kelly M. Cobourn, Virginia Tech; Weizhe Weng, Virginia Tech

The Value of Decadal Climate Variability Information to U.S. Agriculture

Lauren Rhodes, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral; Bruce McCarl, Texas AM University

EGG-TIMER: BEHAVIOR AND ENVIRONMENT

Chair: Marius Alt, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

Room: Handels: B22

Does proclaimed doubt in media spill over to doubt in science? A laboratory experiment in
the context of climate change
Hendrik Bruns, International Max-Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling University of
Hamburg

The Effect of Culture on Energy Efficient Vehicle Ownership
Tobias Wekhof, ETH Zürich; Massimo Filippini, ETH Zürich

How much are forest owners’ social preferences worth for society? An analysis of forest
owners’ autonomous motivations and willingness to provide ecosystem services
Suzanne Vedel, University of Copenhagen; Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, University of Copenhagen; Bo
Jellesmark Thorsen, University of Copenhagen

Match Point – Experimental analyses on different matching rates

Marius Alt, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW); Carlo Gallier, Centre for European Economic
Research (ZEW); Christiane Reif, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

EGG-TIMER: CHOICESChair: Irene Jacqz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Room: Handels: B32

What Drives Property Owners Shoreline Management Choices? A Case Study of Gloucester,
Virginia

Sarah Stafford,

Closing nutrient cycles through wood-ash recycling in Sweden

Benjamin Ouvrard, INRA; Jens Abildtrup, INRA; Göran Bostedt, SLU Umeå University; Anne Stenger,
BETA, INRA Université de Strasbourg

Commuting, Labor, and Housing Market Effects of Mass Transportation: Welfare and
Identification
Christopher Severen, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Toxic Test Scores: The Impact of Chemical Releases on Standardized Test Performancewithin U.S. Schools
Irene Jacqz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

EGG-TIMER: CONSERVATION

Chair: David Wolf, The Ohio State University

Room: Handels: F43

Is there any impact of learning environment on conservation auctions?: An experimental
analysis

Md Sayed Iftekhar, University of Western Australia; Uwe Latacz-Lohmann, Department of Agricultural
Economics, University of Kiel

The influence of a conservation insurance mechanism on optimal bidding in risky
conservation auctions

Toto Olita, The University of Western Australia; Steven G. M. Schilizzi, Western Australia University;
Sayed Ifekhar, University of Western Austrlia

Bioeconomic modelling of coastal cod and kelp forest interactions - habitat services, fisheries
and carbon sinks
Godwin Kofi Vondolia, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; Wenting Chen, Norwegian Institute for
Water Research; Claire W. Armstrong, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; Magnus D. Norling,
Norwegian Institute for Water Research

The Cost of Algae Contamination in Fresh Water Lakes: Identification of Demand Functions
for Environmental Quality
David Wolf, The Ohio State University; H. Allen Klaiber, The Ohio State University; Sathya
Gopalakrishnan, Ohio State University

EGG-TIMER: ECOSYSTEMS

Chair: Ashley Camhi, Arizona State University

Room: Handels: Aulan

Has wild biodiversity a value to arable farming through its input of intermediate ecosystemservices?

Mark Brady, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Ullrika Sahlin, Lund University, Centre forEnvironmental and Climate Research; Yann Clough, Lund University, Centre for Environmental andClimate Research; Katarina Hedlund, Lund University, Department of Biology; Ola Olsson, Lund
University, Department of Biology; Henrik Smith, Lund University, Centre for Environmental and Climate

Research

Turning inside-out: spillovers from collective conservation incentives in the Peruvian
AmazonRenzo Giudice, Center for Development Research (ZEF) University of BonnLand Cover and the Conservation Reserve Program: Water Quality in Iowa’s Lakes

Ashley Camhi, Arizona State University; Charles Perrings, Arizona State University; Joshua Abbott,Resource Economist, Associate Professor, Arizona State University

EGG-TIMER: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF POLICIESChair: Jamie Hansen-Lewis, Brown University

Room: Handels: C33

Causes and consequences of open space conservation in U.S. urban areas

JunJie Wu, Oregon State University; Jialing Yu, Renmin University of China; Walid Oueslati, OECD

The Influence of Environmental Quality Incentives Program on Local Water Quality: Evidence
from Monitoring Station Level Data
pengfei liu, University of Connecticut; yu wang, China Agricultural University; wei zhang, Connecticut
College

Quantifying Biogas Plant Externalities Using Well-Being and Hedonic Price Data

Julia Rechlitz, DIW Berlin; Christian Krekel, London School of Economics and Political Science; Johannes
Rode, TU Darmstadt; Alexander Zerrahn, DIW Berlin

Does Air Pollution Lower Productivity? Evidence from Manufacturing in India
Jamie Hansen-Lewis, Brown University

EGG-TIMER: ENERGY

Chair: Alessandro Mistretta, Banca d'Italia

Room: Handels: SKF

Can climate mitigation help the poor? Measuring impacts of the CDM in rural China
Yimeng Du, Kobe University; Kenji Takeuchi, Kobe University

Does the Stick make the Carrot more Attractive? State Mandates and Uptake of Renewable
Heating Technologies

Robert Germeshausen, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim; Kathrine von
Graevenitz, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim; Martin Achtnicht, IOER Dresden

Climate Agreement and Technology Transfer: Impact of Kyoto Protocol on International
Patent Applications of Renewable Energy Technologies
Mai MIYAMOTO, Kobe University; Kenji Takeuchi, Kobe University

Energy costs and competitiveness in Europe

Alessandro Mistretta, Banca d'Italia; Ivan Faiella, Banca d'Italia

EGG-TIMER: ENERGY
Chair: Levan Elbakidze, WVU

Room: Handels: CG room

To Trade or not to Trade: Oil Leases, Information Asymmetry, and CoasePaul Brehm, Oberlin College; Eric Lewis, US Department of JusticeInvestigating the Effects of Energy Efficient Technology on Household Energy Security: A
Stochastic Production Frontier Approach
Amanda Harker Steele, University of Georgia; John C. Bergstrom, University of Georgia

Who bears the costs of environmental mandates? Evidence from the Top 10,000 Enterprise
Energy Saving Program in China
Jing Cao, Tsinghua University; Rong Ma, Tsinghua University

Regional Adjustment Heterogeneity in Electricity Generation: Evidence from the US
Levan Elbakidze, WVU; gulnara zaynutdinova, WVU; Douglas Mugabe, WVU

EGG-TIMER: ENERGY AND CARBON

Chair: Claudia Aravena-Novielli, Heriot Watt University

Room: Handels: Volvo

Economic and Environmental Interactions between Alternative Carbon Pricing Policies in
New York
Gokce Akin Olcum, Environmental Defense Fund; Christoph Boehringer, ZEW - Zentrum fürEuropäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH; Thomas Rutherford, University of Wisconsin-Madison;
Andrew Schreiber, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Carbon Trading Scheme in China: Evaluating Performance of the Seven Pilot Projects
Xing Chen, Peking University; Jintao Xu, national school of development

Home energy audit effects on investment decisions: A quasi-natural experiment approachThomas Broberg, Umeå university; Alejandro Egüez, Umeå University; Andrius Kazukauskas, UmeåUniversity

Financing Energy Efficiency Retrofits in Chilean Households - The Role of financial
instruments, savings and uncertainty

Claudia Aravena-Novielli, Heriot Watt University; Alejandra Schueftan, Instituto Forestal; Rene Reyes,
Instituto Forestal (INFOR)

EGG-TIMER: ENERGY POLICY

Chair: Lin Zhang, City University of Hong Kong

Room: Handels: SEB

Policy implications of a world with renewables, limited dispatchability, and fixed loadMathias Mier, ifo InstituteA Subsidy Inversely Related to the Price of a ProductTakahiko Kiso, University of Aberdeen

Driven up the wall? Role of environmental regulation in innovation along the automotive
global value chain
Suchita Srinivasan, ETH Zurich

Energy Efficiency transitions in China: How persistent are the movements to/from thefrontier?
Lin Zhang, City University of Hong Kong; Philip Adom, City University of Hong Kong

EGG-TIMER: ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Anomitro Chatterjee, Georgia State University

Room: Handels: F45

Can land rights prevent deforestation? Evidence from a large-scale titling initiative in theBrazilian Amazon

Benedict Probst, University of Cambridge; Andreas Kontoleon, ; Ariel BenYishay, Department of
Economics, College of William Mary; Tiago Reis, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazô nia (IPAM),
BrazilGreen total factor productivity: a re-examination of quality of growth for provinces in China
Fan Xia, National School of Development, Peking University; Jintao Xu, Peking University

Incentivizing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India: Effectiveness of the CSR Act

Sangeeta Bansal, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The Effect of Community Based Management on Elephant Populations in Africa
Anomitro Chatterjee, Georgia State University

EGG-TIMER: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Chair: Dietrich Earnhart, University of Kansas

Room: Handels: E44

Clear Skies: Multi-Pollutant Climate Policy in the Presence of Global Dimming

Frans de Vries, University of Stirling; Matthew McGinty, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; DominiqueThronicker, Zero Waste Scotland

Negotiating a Uniform Emissions Tax in International Environmental Agreements

David McEvoy, Appalachian State University; Matthew McGinty, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Free-riders and free-drivers: Non-cooperative public good provision by heterogeneous
agentsDaniel Heyen, London School of Economics and Political Science; Alessandro Tavoni, Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE

The Effect of Regulatory Enforcement on Facility-level Employment

Dietrich Earnhart, University of Kansas; Zach Raff, University of Wisconsin - Stout

EGG-TIMER: EXPERIMENT

Chair: David McEvoy, Appalachian State University

Room: Handels: B33

Are we losing sociability? A deliberative content analysis approach on intergenerationalsustainability dilemma

Raja Rajendra Timilsina, Kochi University of Technology; Koji Kotani, Kochi University of Technology;
Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Research Institute for Future Design, Kochitech; Yoshinori Nakagawa, Kochi Universityof Technology

MONITORING AND PUNISHMENT NETWORKS IN A COMMON POOL RESOURCE DILEMMA:EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE

Ganga Shreedhar, London School of Economics and Political science; Alessandro Tavoni, Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE; Carment Marchiori, Department of
Economics and Management, Universita Degli Studi di Brescia

Nudging and environmental corporate responsibility: A natural experiment

Leonardo Becchetti, University of Rome Tor Vergata; Francesco Salustri, University of Turin Universityof Rome Tor Vergata; Pasquale Scaramozzino, SOAS University of London

The Role of Non-Binding Pledges in Social Dilemmas with Mitigation and Adaptation

David McEvoy, Appalachian State University; Tobias Haller, University of Innsbruck; Esther Blanco,
University of Innsbruck

EGG-TIMER: EXTERNALITIES AND INFORMATION
Chair: Adam Daigneault, University of Maine

Room: Handels: D32

Can Information Disclosure be an Effective Policy Tool for Climate Change Mitigation?
Donna Ramirez Harrington, University of Vermont; Keith Brouhle, Grinnell College

Is airborne lead pollution salient and costly to homeowners? National evidence from sales
near US airports
Adam Theising, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Are Lawyers Worth the Cost? Legal Counsel in Environmental Criminal Court Cases
Dietrich Earnhart, University of Kansas; Sandra Rousseau, KU Leuven, CEDON

How tax reform can affect investments in natural resources and public goods
Adam Daigneault, University of Maine; Brent Sohngen, The Ohio State University

EGG-TIMER: FOSSIL ENERGY

Chair: Andrew Boslett, University of Rochester Medical Center

Room: Handels: D33

Measuring the Cost-effectiveness of Clean Vehicle Subsidies

Tamara Sheldon, University of South Carolina; Rubal Dua, KAPSARC

VALUE OF FOSSIL-FUEL COMPANIES IN A DECARBONIZED FUTURE WORLD: AN
ECONOMETRIC APPROACH
Pablo Neudorfer, University of Queensland

Energy and the Direction of Growth: Will Autonomous Energy Efficiency Improvements
Continue?
Akshay Shanker, Australian National University; David Stern, Australian National University

The impact of shale development on light pollution

Andrew Boslett, University of Rochester Medical Center; Elaine Hill, University of Rochester Medical
Center; Lala Ma, University of Kentucky; Lujia Zhang, University of Rochester

EGG-TIMER: GAMES AND POLICY

Chair: YIN CHU, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Room: Handels: C22

A Budget-Balanced Mechanism for Siting Noxious Facilities with Identity-Dependent
Externalities
Younghwan In, KAIST College of Business; Yunkyeong Seo, KAIST College of Business

Effects of heterogeneity of countries on stability and effectiveness of international
environmental agreements under different coalition decision making rules.
Irina Bakalova, KU Leuven; Johan Eyckmans, KU Leuven

When does private ownership of a congestible resource lead to under-congestion?
Julian Gomez-Gelvez, University of Maryland

Political Stability: an Impetus for Spatial Environmental Spillovers?

YIN CHU, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law; Chun-Ping Chang, Xi’an Jiaotong University;
Boying Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Bo Sui, Xi’an Jiaotong University

EGG-TIMER: GROWTH AND CGE

Chair: Anna Ciesielski, ifo Institute, Munich

Room: Haga: Dragonen

Can Degrowth Overcome the Leakage Problem of Unilateral Climate Policy?

Mario Larch, University of Bayreuth; Markus Löning, University College London; Joschka Wanner,
University of Bayreuth

A Bayesian re-calibration of economic growth in the DICE model: An assessment of growth
uncertainty
Anna Ciesielski, ifo Institute, Munich; David Anthoff, Economic and Social Research InstituteHydroeconomic optimization of regional water - power systems under cooling constraints
and climate change
Raphaël Payet-Burin, Technical University of Denmark (DTU); Peter Bauer-Gottwein, DTU; Federica

Bertoni, Politecnico di Milano; Claus Davidsen, DTU

A Bayesian approach towards the calibration of deterministic models of economic growth
Anna Ciesielski, ifo Institute, Munich; David Anthoff, Economic and Social Research Institute

EGG-TIMER: NATURAL DISASTERS

Chair: Carina Fugger, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

Room: Handels: F44

Floods and Exports: An Empirical Study on Natural Disaster Shocks in Southeast Asia
Kaori Tembata, Kobe University; Kenji Takeuchi, Kobe University

When Your View Goes Up In Flames: Effect of Wildfires on Property Values

Cloe Garnache, Michigan State University; Todd Guilfoos, University of Rhode Island

Living on the Stormy Side? Tropical Cyclones and Human Settlements
Sven Kunze, Heidelberg University; Eric Strobl, University of Bern

Effects of personal experience of extreme weather events on climate change belief

Carina Fugger, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW); Daniel Osberghaus, Centre for European
Economic Research

EGG-TIMER: POLICY

Chair: Qingran Li, Duke University

Room: Handels: E43

When Do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?

Wayne Gray, Clark University; Ronald Shadbegian, U.S. E.P.A., National Center for Environmental
Economics and Kyung Hee University

Assessing transition risk at microeconomic level with a stress test methodology
Alessandro Ravina, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne; Chair EnergyProsperity

Three Types of Interaction in Multi-Species Fisheries and When They Need to be Considered
Benjamin Blanz, University of Hamburg

Impact of tariff change on residents' decision: evidence from Arizona's unbundling solar
rates
Qingran Li, Duke University

EGG-TIMER: POLLUTION
Chair: Anders Fremstad, Colorado State University

Room: Handels: E45

Air Pollution, Health, and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from South Korea
Moon Joon Kim, Duke Kunshan University

Feel the burn: Effects of agricultural straw burning on health in China

Tong Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Guojun He, Hong Kong University of Scienceand Technology; Joshua Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego

What's Mine is Yours: Transboundary Pollution from Abandoned Coal Mines
Alexey Kalinin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Inequality

Anders Fremstad, Colorado State University; Mark Paul, Duke University

EGG-TIMER: RECREATION

Room: Handels: B44

Chair: Tafesse Estifanos, PhD student at the University of Western Australia and a staff at Hawassa
University , Ethiopia

Assessing coastal recreational values across Japan: Applications of Travel Cost Model withmobile phone network data

Takahiro Kubo, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES); Shiya Uryu, National Institute forEnvironmental Studies (NIES); Takahiro Tsuge, Konan University; Hiroya Yamano, National Institute forEnvironmental Studies (NIES); Take Yamakita, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology(JAMSTEC); Yoshihisa Shirayama, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)The Influence of Weather on Outdoor Recreation: Forecasting the Implications of Climate
ChangeCarlo Fezzi, University of Trento; Silvia Ferrini, DISPI, University of Siena CSERGE, University of East
Anglia; Richard Carson, University of California, San Diego; Amii Harwood, University of East Anglia

Preserving natural habitat quality and/or recreational attractiveness? Spatial tools for
management planning
Léa Tardieu, INRA, UMR BETA; Laetitia Tuffery, AgroParisTech, UMR BETA

Estimating willingness to pay for a rare canid species in Africa: Analysis of tourists’preference for the protection of the Ethiopian wolf

Tafesse Estifanos, PhD student at the University of Western Australia and a staff at Hawassa University ,Ethiopia; Atakelty Hailu, University of Western Australia; Ram Pandit, University of Western Australia;
Maksym Polyakov, Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009,
Australia; Michael Burton, University of Western Australia

EGG-TIMER: RESOURCES

Chair: Karen Maguire, Oklahoma State University

Room: Haga: B210

Shale Gas Boom in the US: Productivity Shock and Price Responsiveness
Yan Chen, Peking University; Jintao Xu, Peking University

Cleaning the air for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games: An empirical study of China’s thermal
power sector
Teng Ma, ASIA PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH; Kenji Takeuchi, Kobe University

Long Run Effects of Resource Booms on Individuals: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Justin Winikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Grant Jacobsen, University of Oregon; Dominic

Parker,Pecking Order? Energy Development and Bird Species Richness on the High Plains ofColorado and Kansas
Karen Maguire, Oklahoma State University; Monica Papes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

EGG-TIMER: RESOURCES

Chair: Peggy Schrobback, The University of Queensland

Room: Haga: B225

Backward- and forward-looking shadow prices in inclusive wealth accounting: an example ofrenewable energy capital
Rintaro Yamaguchi, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)

Benefits from water related ecosystem services in Africa and climate change.

Laetitia Pettinotti, BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change; Amaia de Ayala, BC3 and UPV-EHU; Elena
Ojea, University of Vigo

Estimation of experts’ subjective probabilities regarding future carbon dioxide emissions

Valentina Bosetti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; EMILY HO, fORDHAM uNIVERSITY; David Budescu,
Fordham University; Detlef van Vuuren, Utrecht University; Klaus Keller, Penn State

Market integration and demand for prawns in Australia

Peggy Schrobback, The University of Queensland; Sean Pascoe, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; Rui
Zhang, The University of Queensland

EGG-TIMER: VALUATION

Chair: Emmi Haltia, Pellervo Economic Research PTT

Room: Handels: B23

Effects of the Number of Alternatives in Choice Experiment Questions

Weizhe Weng, Virginia Tech; Mark Morrison, Charles Sturt University; Kevin Boyle, University of Maine;Peter Boxall, University of Alberta; John Rose, The University of Technology Sydney

Advantages of using partial profile choice experiment: Examining preference for forest
ecosystem services

Yasushi Shoji, Hokkaido University; Takahiro Tsuge, Konan University; Takahiro Kubo, National
Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES); Kohei Imamura, The University of Tokyo; Koichi Kuriyama,
Kyoto University

Using best-worst scaling to assess climbers' preferences regarding the use of entrance fees
Kentaro Yoshida, Kyushu University; Mitasu Yamamoto, Otaru University of Commerce

Demand and supply of agricultural ecosystem services: participation in results based policy

Emmi Haltia, Pellervo Economic Research PTT; Annika Tienhaara, Natural Resources Institute Finland,
LUKE; Eija Pouta, Natural Resources Institute Finland, LUKE; Kyösti Arovuori, Pellervo Economic
Research PTT; IOANNA GRAMMATIKOPOULOU, Natural Resources Institute Finland, LUKE; Antti
Miettinen, Natural Resources Institute Finland , Luke; Kauko Koikkalainen, Natural Resources Institute
Finland, LUKE; Heini Ahtiainen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke); Janne Artell, Natural

Resources Institute Finland, LUKE

EGG-TIMER: WATER

Chair: Jane Zhao, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Room: Haga: B228

Floodplain Designation and Property Sale Prices in an Urban Watershed

Noelwah Netusil, Reed College; Maya Jarrad, Reed College; Klaus Moeltner, Virginia Tech

Cost function approach to water protection in forestry

Jenni Miettinen, University of Helsinki; Markku Ollikainen, University of Helsinki; Mika Nieminen,
Natural Resources Institute Finland; Lauri Valsta, University of Helsinki

Agricultural Groundwater Markets: Understanding the Gains from Trade and the Role ofMarket Power
Ellen Bruno, University of California, Davis

Hedonic market premiums for better water connections: Using network data in Kathmandu,
Nepal
Jane Zhao, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill

SPECIAL SESSION: RESEARCH TRENDS IN ENVIRONMENTAL
AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS

Room: Handels: Malmsten

Chair: Roland Kube, University of Muenster

Research trends in environmental and resource economics: Insights from four decades of
JEEM
Roland Kube, University of Muenster; Andreas Loeschel, University of Muenster; Till Requate,
University of Kiel; Henrik Mertens, University of Kiel

Parallell sessions 9
Thursday June 28, 16.45-18.30

Parallel session 9

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Thursday, 16.45-18.30
Room: Handels: B22

Chair: Fabian Thomas, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrueck University

Does Culture Affect Soil Erosion? Empirical Evidence from Europe
David Wuepper, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Benoit Cheze, IFPEN; EconomiX, University of Paris-Nanterre

Farmers’ motivations to reduce their use of pesticides: a choice experiment analysis in
FranceBenoit Cheze, IFPEN; EconomiX, University of Paris-Nanterre; Maia David, UMR Economie Publique,
INRA-AgroParisTech; Vincent Martinet, UMR Economie Publique, INRA-AgroParisTech
Discussant: Sophie Thoyer, Montpellier Supagro - Center for Environmental Economics of Montpellier

Do farmers follow the herd? the influence of social norms in the participation to agrienvironmental schemes

Sophie Thoyer, Montpellier Supagro - Center for Environmental Economics of Montpellier; Philippe LeCoënt, Center of Environmental Economics of Montpellier, INRA; Raphaele Préget, INRA Montpellier
Discussant: Fabian Thomas, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrueck University

Greening the Common Agricultural Policy – Insights from a field experiment in Lower
Saxony, Germany

Fabian Thomas, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrueck University; Estelle Midler,
Policy Evaluation Economic Analysis, French Ministry of Agriculture; Marianne Lefebvre, Economics
Management Research Angers, University of Angers; Stefanie Engel, Institute of Environmental Systems
Research, Osnabrueck University
Discussant: David Wuepper, ETH Zurich

CLIMATE CHANGE: AGREEMENTS

Chair: Vedunka Kopecna, Charles University

Room: Handels: D33

International Environmental Agreements: Empirical Evidence of a Hidden SuccessNada Maamoun, University of Hamburg
Discussant: Alejandro Caparros, CSIC

A model of the (incomplete) Paris Agreement on climate change
Alejandro Caparros, CSIC
Discussant: Andre Francisco J, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Endogenous Learning to Reduce Uncertainty in Climate Change: The Role of Knowledge
Spillovers and the Degree of Cooperation in International Environmental Agreements

Andre Francisco J, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Michael Finus, University of Bath; Leyla Sayin,
University of BathDiscussant: Vedunka Kopecna, Charles University

Modelling Electric Vehicles as an Abatement Technology in a Hybrid CGE Model

Vedunka Kopecna, Charles University; Milan Scasny, Charles University in Prague; Stefan Schmelzer,

Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna; Michael Miess, Institute for Advanced Studies
Discussant: Nada Maamoun, University of Hamburg

CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACT

Chair: Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State University

Room: Handels: C24

Climate Change Experience and Beliefs; Investigating the Scope of Effects

Patrick Walsh, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research; Pike Brown, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research;
Pamela Booth, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Discussant: Hongliang Zhang, University of Neuchatel

Weather, Climate and Production Risk
Hongliang Zhang, University of Neuchatel
Discussant: Antoine Leblois, INRA

How may climate change influence farmers' demand for index-based insurance?
Antoine Leblois, INRA
Discussant: Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State University

Adaptation to Climate Change: Extreme Events versus Gradual Changes

Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State University; Sangjun Lee, Korea Energy Economics InstituteDiscussant: Patrick Walsh, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research

CONSERVATION

Chair: Anca Voia, Toulouse School of Economics

Room: Handels: F43

Land use policies for biodiversity

Jun Yoshida, Tohoku University; Tatsuhito Kono, Tohoku University
Discussant: Juan Ignacio Zoloa, UNLP

Price Premium for Green Open Space and Tree Cover in the City of Buenos Aires
Juan Ignacio Zoloa, UNLP; Mariano Rabassa, UCA; Federico Barra, World Bank
Discussant: Martin Drechsler, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

The impact of conservation payments and landowner behaviour on conservation whenconservation costs at the local level but pays at the regional level
Martin Drechsler, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Discussant: Anca Voia, Toulouse School of Economics

Are Conservation Programs Additional? Evidence from the French Grassland Conservation
ProgramSylvain Chabé-Ferret, Toulouse School of Economics; Anca Voia, Toulouse School of Economics
Discussant: Jun Yoshida, Tohoku University

ENERGY: GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM AND WELFARE ISSUES

Room: Handels: C33

Chair: Luis Alejandro Sarmiento, German Institute of Economic Research (DIW BERLIN)

Designing a Model for the Global Energy System—GENeSYS-MOD: An Application of the OpenSource Energy Modeling System (OSeMOSYS)
Konstantin Löffler, TU Berlin / DIW Berlin; Karlo Hainsch, TU Berlin; Thorsten Burandt, TU Berlin /DIW Berlin; Pao-Yu Oei, TU Berlin; Claudia Kemfert, DIW Berlin / German Advisory Council on
Environment / Hertie School of Governance; Christian von Hirschhausen, DIW Berlin / TU Berlin
Discussant: David Comerford, University of Strathclyde

The Energy Trap

David Comerford, University of Strathclyde
Discussant: Nic Rivers, University of Ottawa

The energy efficiency rebound effect in general equilibrium

Nic Rivers, University of Ottawa; Christoph Boehringer, University of Oldenburg
Discussant: Luis Alejandro Sarmiento, German Institute of Economic Research (DIW BERLIN)

The Impact of Electricity Transmission Infrastructure on Households' Well-Being

Luis Alejandro Sarmiento, German Institute of Economic Research (DIW BERLIN); Aleksandar Zaklan,
DIW Berlin; Alexander Zerrahn, DIW Berlin; Christian von Hirschhausen, DIW Berlin / TU Berlin
Discussant: Konstantin Löffler, TU Berlin / DIW Berlin

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Chair: hailu elias, Addis Ababa University

Room: Handels: F45

Drivers of Deforestation in Indonesia: A Spatial Panel Data Analysis

Arild Angelsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Amare Teklay Hailu, School of Economics andBusiness, Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Arief Wijaya Wijaya, World Resources InstituteDiscussant: Branko Boskovic, University of Alberta

Forest cover and the market for fuelwood in rural India

Branko Boskovic, University of Alberta; Ujjayant Chakravorty, Tufts University; Martino Pelli,
University of Sherbrooke; Anna Risch, University of Grenoble
Discussant: Rhita Simorangkir, CERGE-EI

Environmental Consequences of Poverty Alleviation Programs: Evidence from Conditional
Cash Transfers in Indonesia
Rhita Simorangkir, CERGE-EI; Paul Ferraro, Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: hailu elias, Addis Ababa University

The impact of Credit Constraints and Climatic factors on choice of Adaptation Strategies:
Evidence from rural Ethiopia
mintewab bezabih, Environment and Climate Research Center; hailu elias, Addis Ababa University
Discussant: Amare Teklay Hailu, School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life
Sciences

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: FIRM BEHAVIOR
Chair: Kiet Nguyen, Can Tho University

Room: Handels: D32

Environmental quality provision by a multi-product monopolist
Pim Heijnen, University of Groningen
Discussant: Binish Rijal, Binghamton University

High Priority Violations and Intra-firm Pollution Substitution
Binish Rijal, Binghamton University; Neha Khanna,
Discussant: Jingbo Cui, Wuhan University

Does Environmental Regulation Induce Firm Green Innovation and Enhance Firm
Competitiveness? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China
Jingbo Cui, Wuhan University; Junjie Zhang, Duke University
Discussant: Kiet Nguyen, Can Tho University

A CENTRALISED GOVERNING SYSTEM VS A SELF-GOVERNING SYSTEM TO A NONPOINT
SOURCE POLLUTION WITH EXTERNALITY: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE
Kiet Nguyen, Can Tho University
Discussant: Pim Heijnen, University of Groningen

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: INSTITUTIONS
Chair: Tiho Ancev, University of Sydney

Room: Handels: E43

Environmental Policy Diffusion: The influence of market structure and lobbying
Markus Ohndorf, University of Innsbruck
Discussant: Stephan Wolf, University of Freiburg

Intergenerational Sharing of Non-Renewable Resources: An Experimental Study Using
Rawls’s Veil of Ignorance
Stephan Wolf, University of Freiburg; Cameron Dron, University of Freiburg
Discussant: Juan F. Garcia, KU LEUVEN

The small open circular economy

Juan F. Garcia, KU LEUVEN; Johan Eyckmans, KU Leuven; Sandra Rousseau, KU Leuven, CEDON
Discussant: Tiho Ancev, University of SydneySize matters: Optimal Management of Dynamic Systems with Varying Size

Tiho Ancev, University of Sydney; Karunagaran Madhavan, School of Accounting and Finance, Charles
Sturt University Study Centres
Discussant: Markus Ohndorf, University of Innsbruck

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: OIL

Chair: Benjamin Gilbert, Colorado School of Mines

Room: Handels: E45

Climate Policy and Resource Extraction with Variable Markups and Imperfect Substitutes
Malik Curuk, Bogazici University; Suphi Sen, ifo InstituteDiscussant: Johan Gars, GEDB, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

International business cycles: quantifying the effects of a world market for oil

Johan Gars, GEDB, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Conny Olovsson, Sveriges Riksbank
Discussant: Felix Meier, University of Kiel

Booming gas – A resource-economic theory of technological change and the order of resource
extraction
Felix Meier, University of Kiel; Martin Quaas, University of Kiel
Discussant: Benjamin Gilbert, Colorado School of Mines

Drill-bit parity: Supply-side links in oil and gas markets

Benjamin Gilbert, Colorado School of Mines; Gavin Roberts, Weber State University
Discussant: Suphi Sen, ifo Institute

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: POLITICAL ECONOMY

Room: Handels: C22

Chair: Rolf Golombek, Frisch Centre

Special interests and public opinion in American environmental politics
Elise Grieg, ETHZ
Discussant: Hélia Costa, Toulouse School of Economics

Political economy of environmental regulation: the role of lobbying and elections in the US
SenateHélia Costa, Toulouse School of Economics
Discussant: Rolf Golombek, Frisch Centre

Should environmental RD be supported more than other RD projects?

Rolf Golombek, Frisch Centre; Mads Greaker, Statistics Norway; Michael Hoel, University of Oslo
Discussant: Elise Grieg, ETHZENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: REGULATION

Chair: Yu Pang, Macau University of Science and Technology

Room: Handels: E 44/GBJroom

Trust, Compliance and International Regulation

Ara Jo, London School of Economics
Discussant: Patrick Möbius, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Environmental policy, innovation, and productivity growth: Controlling the effects ofregulation and endogeneity

Patrick Möbius, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management; Erik Hille, HHL Leipzig Graduate Schoolof Management
Discussant: Jevan Cherniwchan, University of Alberta

Do Environmental Regulations Affect the Decision to Export?

Jevan Cherniwchan, University of Alberta; Nouri Najjar, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Yu Pang, Macau University of Science and Technology

Command-and-Control Regulation, Incentive for Pollution Abatement, and Market Structure
Yu Pang, Macau University of Science and Technology; Ping Lin, Lingnan University
Discussant: Ara Jo, London School of Economics

FORESTRY: THEORY AND EMPIRICS

Room: Haga: B228

Chair: Jonah Busch, Center for Global Development

Hedging with Trees: Tail-Hedge Discounting of Long-Term Forestry Returns
Lars Hultkrantz, Örebro University
Discussant: Aino Assmuth, University of Helsinki

Optimal carbon storage in uneven-aged mixed-species stands

Aino Assmuth, University of Helsinki; Janne Rämö, University of Helsinki; Olli Tahvonen, University of
Helsinki
Discussant: Katherine Lee, University of Idaho

Optimal control of land conversion in Brazil: impacts of malaria as an externality of
deforestation
Katherine Lee, University of Idaho; David Finnoff, University of Wyoming
Discussant: Jonah Busch, Center for Global Development

Does Deforestation Increase Malaria Prevalence? Evidence from Satellite Data and Health
SurveysJonah Busch, Center for Global Development; Sebastian Bauhoff, Center for Global Development
Discussant: Lars Hultkrantz, Örebro University

GROWTH AND TECHNICAL CHANGE

Room: Haga: Dragonen

Chair: Ida A. B. Sognnaes, University of Cambridge, CEENRG/Department of Land Economy

Green Technology Adoption and the Business Cycle

Jean-Marc Bourgeon, INRA and Ecole Polytechnique
Discussant: Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Finding common ground when experts disagree: Robust Portfolio Decision Analysis

Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Valentina Bosetti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; Ahti
Salo, Aalto University
Discussant: Saheli Das, PhD Scholar, Center for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, India.

Ability-Biased Technical Change, Economic Growth and the Environment

Saheli Das, PhD Scholar, Center for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India.; Meeta Mehra, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Discussant: Ida A. B. Sognnaes, University of Cambridge, CEENRG/Department of Land Economy

Systems Innovation, Inertia and Pliability: A mathematical exploration with implications forclimate change abatement
Michael Grubb, University College London; Jean-François Mercure, Radbound University; Pablo Salas,
University of Cambridge, CEENRG/Department of Land Economy; Rutger-Jan Lange, Professor inQuantitative Finance, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Ida A. B. Sognnaes,
University of Cambridge, CEENRG/Department of Land Economy
Discussant: Jean-Marc Bourgeon, INRA and Ecole Polytechnique

HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

Chair: Xavier Pautrel, University of Angers GRANEM, France

Room: Handels: B44

The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction
Garth Heutel, Georgia State University; Tatyana Deryugina, ; Nolan Miller, University of Illinois; David
Molitor, University of Illinois; Julian Reif, University of Illinois
Discussant: Shuai Chen, Zhejiang University

The Effect of Air Pollution on Mental Health: Evidence from China

Shuai Chen, Zhejiang University; Paulina Oliva, Department of Economics, University of Southern
California, NBER and BREAD; Peng Zhang, School of Accounting and Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University
Discussant: Alex Hollingsworth, Indiana University

Estimating the Health Impacts of Excess Emissions

Alex Hollingsworth, Indiana University; Nikolaos Zirogiannis, School of Public and Environmental
Affairs, Indiana University-Bloomington; David Konisky, Indiana University School of Public andEnvironmental Affairs
Discussant: Xavier Pautrel, University of Angers GRANEM, France

Environment, Health and Labor Market

Xavier Pautrel, University of Angers GRANEM, France
Discussant: Garth Heutel, Georgia State University

NATURAL DISASTERS

Chair: Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Ohio State University

Room: Handels: F44

Long-Run Growth Impacts of Natural Disasters and the Connection to the Spatial Pattern of
the Natural Hazard
Stephanie Lackner, Princeton University
Discussant: Saudamini Das, Institute of Economic Growth

Resilience to natural disasters: Role of socio-economic factors and coastal ecosystems inenabling resilience of coastal communities post natural disasters.

Saudamini Das, Institute of Economic Growth; Nisha Maria D'Souza, International Union for Nature
Conservation, Delhi Office; J R Bhatt, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Government of
India
Discussant: Helene Ollivier, PSE - CNRS

Trade-Induced Spillovers from Natural Disasters

Helene Ollivier, PSE - CNRS; Geoffrey Barrows, Ecole polytechnique - CNRS; Raphael Calel, Georgetown
University
Discussant: Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Ohio State University

Dredging the sand commons: Examining tradeoffs in the timing of shoreline stabilization

Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Ohio State University; H. Allen Klaiber, The Ohio State University; Yun Qiu,
Jinan University
Discussant: Stephanie Lackner, Princeton University

POLICY SESSION: SMART GRID FOR A CARBON FREE
ENERGY FUTURE: THE ROLE OF ELECTRICITY PRICING AND
DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES

Room: Handels: SEB

Organizer(s): Kristina Mohlin, Environmental Defense Fund; Beia Spiller, Environmental Defense
Fund
Chair: Kristina Mohlin, Environmental Defense Fund

Advances in digital technology is transforming the electricity grid at the same time as we are seeing
fast reductions in the cost of renewable energy and energy storage technologies. While large utility
scale renewables and energy storage are already making significant headways into our energy
systems in many parts of the world, distributed energy resources (DERs) such as customer-scale
photovoltaics (PV), electric vehicles and batteries as well as programmable home energy technologies
are only starting to become more commonplace. These DERs have the potential to play a significant
role in the transitions to a carbon free energy system by making electricity demand responsive to thefluctuations in electricity supply from intermittent renewable sources and by offsetting generationfrom fossil fuel resources. But currently, electricity markets and utility regulation are typically still
designed for a system with central generators and passive energy customers. This session will discuss
the following questions: what is the current state of affairs of DER adoption in the US and Europe,
what has contributed to this level of adoption, and what is the outlook for the future? How large a role
will DERs play in the transition to a carbon free electricity system? What are the roles of technology
companies, the electric distribution utilities and regulators in creating smart energy homes? From anenvironmental perspective, are there reasons to be cautious in making this transition? What role will
market design play in shaping advances for clean energy technologies at the distribution edge? And
finally, what is the role of cost-reflective electricity pricing in advancing DER adoption?
Panelist(s): Therése Hindman Persson, Swedish Energy Markets Inspectorate;
Tim Schittekatte, Florence School of Regulation;
Marcus Törnqvist, Ericsson

POLICY SESSION: THE SOCIAL COST OF CARBON: CLIMATEPOLICY DRIVERS AND RESEARCH NEEDS

Room: Handels: Volvo

Organizer(s): Richard Newell, Resources for the Future
Chair: Richard Newell, Resources for the FutureThis session will explore the historic and current role of the social cost of carbon (SCC) in the UnitedStates at the federal and state level and in other countries, as well as the potential for incorporating
the SCC into policy analysis to support European decisionmaking. The social cost of carbon quantifies
both the benefits to society of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere and the harm
to society from emitting more carbon dioxide. The SCC informs billions of dollars of policy andinvestment decisions in the United States and abroad. At the request of the US federal government, inJanuary 2017 the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) released acomprehensive report that made a number of important recommendations for updating themethodology for estimating the SCC to ensure that the estimates reflect the best available science andto enhance their transparency. The session will discuss how the SCC has been estimated in the U.S.,
the set of recommendations by the NAS for improving the estimation methodology, and the efforts

that are currently underway to improve the estimates and their use in decisionmaking. It will
highlight key aspects of the estimation methodology that present practical and conceptual challenges
in the generation of the estimates and also strongly influence the resulting values. The session will
also compare the SCC approach to others that have been employed to value carbon reductions inpolicy analysis.
Panelist(s): Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future;
Karen Palmer, Resources for the Future;
Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland;
Joe Aldy, Harvard University;
Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Mercator ResearchInstitute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin Institute of Technology;
Kevin Rennert, Resources for the Future

RESOURCES

Chair: Pierre Courtois, INRA

Room: Haga: B210

Preservation Value in Socio-Ecological Systems

Arnaud Dragicevic, IRSTEA; Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming
Discussant: Nicolas Clootens, University of Tours

Growth in OLG Economies with Non-Renewable and Polluting Resources
Nicolas Clootens, University of Tours
Discussant: Janne Helin, Natural Resources Insitute Finland

How to account for the value of nitrogen retained by eelgrass: a substitute cost study
Janne Helin, Natural Resources Insitute Finland
Discussant: Pierre Courtois, INRA

A tale of two diversities

Pierre Courtois, INRA
Discussant: Arnaud Dragicevic, IRSTEARESOURCES: PROTECTED AREAS

Chair: Claudia Berg, International Monetary Fund

Room: Haga: B225

Wildlife conflicts: Wolves vs. moose

Anders Skonhoft, Norweigan University of Science and Technology; Ja Tore Solstad, NTNU Business
SchoolDiscussant: Claudia Berg, International Monetary Fund

How to Conserve Wildlife? The Economics of Protected Areas

Christian Bogmans, International Monetary Fund; Claudia Berg, International Monetary Fund
Discussant: Jean Hugues NLOM, The University of Maroua

A Bio-economics analysis of conflicts between illegal hunting and wildlife management inCameroun: The case of Campo-Ma'an national park
Jean Hugues NLOM, The University of Maroua
Discussant: Nick Hanley, University of Glasgow

Incentivising participation and spatial coordination in Payment for Ecosystem Service
schemes: invasive pests and diseases in private forests.

Nick Hanley, University of Glasgow; Artti Juutinen, University of Oulu, Natural Resources Institute
Finland (Luke); Enni Ruokamo, University of Oulu; Oleg Sheremet, University of Stirling; Rauli Svento,
University of Oulu
Discussant: Anders Skonhoft, Norweigan University of Science and Technology

RISK

Chair: Salvatore Di Falco, University of Geneva

Room: Handels: B33

Public Safety under Imperfect Taxation

Nicolas Treich, Toulouse School of Economics, INRA; Yuting Yang, Toulouse School of Economics
Discussant: Shan ROUX HU, CRESE EA 3190, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 45 D Avenue del'Observatoire, F-25000 Besancon, France

The role of information disclosure in a revelation contract model

Shan ROUX HU, CRESE EA 3190, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 45 D Avenue de l'Observatoire,
F-25000 Besancon, France
Discussant: Klaas van 't Veld,

Information Avoidance and Private Provision of Public Goods

Yuanhao Li, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Klaas van 't Veld, ; Jason Shogren, University of
Wyoming
Discussant: Salvatore Di Falco, University of Geneva

Shocks and Risk Preferences Revisited New Evidence from Ethiopian Panel Data
Salvatore Di Falco, University of Geneva; Ferdinand Vieider, Reading University
Discussant: Yuting Yang, Toulouse School of Economics

THEMATIC SESSION: ENDOGENOUS POPULATIONDYNAMICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Room: Handels: SKF

Organizer(s): Johannes Emmerling, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; Soheil Shayegh, Fondazione Eni
Enrico Mattei
Chair: Soheil Shayegh, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

The role of population growth for climate change has been at the heart of the sustainability debate
since decades. Notably, high population growth in some world regions accelerates resource use andglobal environmental issues, in turn, global and local externalities affect global population dynamics
by affecting mortality, but also fertility rates, reproductive choices, and international migration flows.
Moreover, these population dynamics interact with other socioeconomic dimensions including
education and settlement patterns. In this session, we will discuss some of the resent contributions tomodel different population dynamics conceptually, consider recent projections and data findings, andview the findings in the light of climate change scenarios and their including in numerical models
such as IAMs.

The Role of Education in the Relationship between Population and CO2 Emissions

Marina Andrijevic, Humboldt University in Berlin; Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Vienna University of
Economics and Business; Erich Striessnig, IIASA; Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Vienna Institute ofDemography

Integrated assessment of climate and population change: A first pass

Antonin Pottier, CES Maison des Sciences Économique; Marc Fleurbaey, Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Aurélie Méjean, CIRED - CNRS; Stéphane Zuber,
Paris School of Economics - CNRS

Male Reproductive Health Inequalities and Fairness issues

Natacha Raffin, University Rouen Normandie; Johanna Etner, EconomiC, UPL, Univ Paris Nanterre;Thomas Seegmuller, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, Centrale Marseille, AMSE

International Migration and Climate Change: Projections across the Shared Socioeconomic
Pathways
Soheil Shayegh, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; Johannes Emmerling, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei;
Massimo Tavoni, Polytechnic University of Milan

TRANSPORT

Chair: Junming Zhu, Tsinghua University

Room: Handels: CG-room

The Effectiveness of Air Quality Warnings and Temporary Driving Bans: Evidence from Air
Pollution and Urban Transit Flows in Santiago
Nathaly Rivera, Michigan State University
Discussant: Sarah Fluchs, RWTH Aachen University

The Influence of Government Incentives on Electric Vehicle Adoption: Cross-national
Comparison
Sarah Fluchs, RWTH Aachen University; Garnet Kasperk, RWTH Aachen University
Discussant: Linda Cohen, University of California, Irvine

A Second-best Dilemma: Freight Trucks, Externalities and the Dispatch EffectLinda Cohen, University of California, Irvine; Kevin Roth, Christensen Associates
Discussant: Junming Zhu, Tsinghua University

Ships at ports and inland air pollution: Evidence from enforcing a fuel standard in China
Junming Zhu, Tsinghua University
Discussant: Nathaly Rivera, Michigan State University

VALUATION: INCENTIVES AND BEHAVIOR
Chair: Christian Vossler, University of Tennessee

Room: Handels: B32

Preferences for Improved Electricity Services in Developing Countries: Households’
Defensive Behavior and Willingness to Pay
Tensay Hadush Meles, Mekelle University and University College Dublin
Discussant: Nick Hanley, University of Glasgow

Nudging Participation and Spatial Agglomeration in Payment for Environmental Service
SchemesLaure Kuhfuss, University of St Andrews - James Hutton Institute; Raphaele Préget, INRA Montpellier;Frans de Vries, University of Stirling; Nick Hanley, University of Glasgow; Sophie Thoyer, Montpellier
Supagro - Center for Environmental Economics of Montpellier
Discussant: Michael Sinclair, The University of Haifa

Recreational ecosystem services of tropical wetlands in Kerala, India: a crowdsourced spatial
analysis
Michael Sinclair, The University of Haifa; Andrea Ghermandi, University of Haifa
Discussant: Christian Vossler, University of Tennessee

Can alternative non-market value-elicitation methods reveal the same values?
Christian Vossler, University of Tennessee; Ewa Zawojska, University of Warsaw
Discussant: Tensay Hadush Meles, Mekelle University and University College Dublin

VALUATION: STATED AND REVEALED PREFERENCES
Chair: Paramita Sinha, RTI International

Room: Handels: B23

Do attribute cut-offs make a difference? The effects of eliciting and incorporating cut-off
values in choice models

Malte Oehlmann, adelphi; Jürgen Meyerhoff, TU Berlin; Klaus Glenk, Scotland's Rural College; Patrick
Lloyd-Smith, University of Saskatchewan
Discussant: Erlend Dancke Sandorf, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Assessing the Impact of Professional Respondents using an Integrated Choice and Latent
Variable Model

Erlend Dancke Sandorf, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Lars Persson, Umeå university;
Thomas Broberg, Umeå university
Discussant: bianca van der Kroon, Vrije Universiteit

Combining revealed and stated preference data to estimate urban demand for improved
cook stoves and modern fuels in Mozambique
bianca van der Kroon, Vrije Universiteit
Discussant: Paramita Sinha, RTI International

Do Discrete Choice Approaches to Valuing Urban Amenities Yield Different Results than
Hedonic Models?

Paramita Sinha, RTI International; Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland; Martha Caulkins, The
Brattle Group
Discussant: Malte Oehlmann, adelphi

Social Event

Thursday, 18.30-23.00
Room: Handels

Parallell sessions 10
Friday June 29, 8.30-10.15

Parallel session 10

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chair: Natacha Raffin, University Rouen Normandie

Friday, 08.30-10.15
Room: Handels B22

The role of social ties and knowledge-sharing for the adoption of precision farming
technologies – A farmer survey and choice experiment in Italy
Julia Blasch, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; bianca van der Kroon, Vrije Universiteit
Discussant: Sylvain Chabé-Ferret, Toulouse School of Economics

Can We Nudge Farmers to Adopt Green Practices? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled
Trial with French Winegrowers
Sylvain Chabé-Ferret, Toulouse School of Economics; Julie Subervie, French National Institute for
Agricultural Research (INRA); Philippe Le Coënt, French National Institute for Agricultural Research(INRA) and CEE-M; Sophie Thoyer, Montpellier Supagro - Center for Environmental Economics ofMontpellier; Raphaele Préget, INRA Montpellier; Caroline Lefevre, VPE
Discussant: Robertson Khataza, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR)

Information acquisition, learning and the adoption of conservation agriculture in Malawi: a
discrete-time duration analysis
Robertson Khataza, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR)
Discussant: Natacha Raffin, University Rouen Normandie

Corporate Social Responsibility and workers' motivation at the industry equilibrium

Natacha Raffin, University Rouen Normandie; Victor Hiller, LEMMA, Université Panthéon Assas
Discussant: Julia Blasch, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURE
Chair: Thiago Morello, UFABC

Room: Handels C33

The effects of climate change on crop and livestock choices

Saul Basurto Hernandez, University of Birmingham; David Maddison, University of Birmingham;
Anindya Banerjee, University of Birmingham
Discussant: Stefanija Veljanoska, FAO

Can Land Fragmentation Reduce the Exposure of Rural Households to Weather Variability?
Stefanija Veljanoska, FAO
Discussant: Andrew Stevens, Mississippi State University

Temperature, Wages, and Agricultural Labor Productivity
Andrew Stevens, Mississippi State University
Discussant: Thiago Morello, UFABC

Fire, tractors and health in the Amazon: a cost-benefit analysis of fire policy

Thiago Morello, UFABC; Rubicleis Silva, UFAC; Sonaira Silva, UFAC; Simone Martino, Scottish Marine
Science Association; Alejandro Duarte, UFAC; Raimundo Maciel, UFAC; Demerval Moreira, UNESP; Liana
Anderson, Oxford; Vera Reis, UFAC; Foster Brown, UFAC/WHRC; Ian Bateman, University of East Anglia

Discussant: David Maddison, University of Birmingham

CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACT

Chair: Yating Li, Duke University

Room: Handels: D33

Cross-Country Variability in Impact of Climate Change on Total Factor Productivity

Surender Kumar, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Balasubramanian Rudrasamy, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS AND FARM INCOME – A HYDROECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN SOUTH INDIA

Balasubramanian Rudrasamy, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University; Saravanakumar Venkatachalam,
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
Discussant: Jacob Hochard, East Carolina University

Mangroves shelter coastal economic activity from cyclones

Jacob Hochard, East Carolina University; Edward B. Barbier, Colorado State University; Stuart Hamilton,
Salisbury University
Discussant: Yating Li, Duke University

The impact of climate change on the residential electricity demand in China

Yating Li, Duke University; William Pizer, Duke University; Libo Wu, Fudan University
Discussant: Surender Kumar, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi

ENERGY

Chair: Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet, CIRED

Room: Handels: F45

Power outages and firm performance: The case of Vietnam

Robert Elliott, University of Birmingham; Viet Nguyen-Tien, University of Birmingham; Eric Strobl,
University of Bern
Discussant: Mary Karumba, Government of Kenya

Co-operation, institutional quality and management outcome in community based microhydro schemes in Kenya
Mary Karumba, Government of Kenya; Edwin Muchapondwa, University of Cape Town
Discussant: Maria Apergi, London School of Economics and Political Science

The effect a time-varying tariff on expenditure patterns for prepaid electricity: evidence
from a solar hybrid mini-grid in Guinea-Bissau
Maria Apergi, London School of Economics and Political Science
Discussant: Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet, CIRED

How do lenders price energy-efficiency loans? Evidence from France

Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet, CIRED; Anna Petronevich, CIRED; Laurent Faucheux, CIRED
Discussant: Viet Nguyen-Tien, University of Birmingham

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: FOREST
Chair: Yuanyuan Yi, World Bank

Room: Handels F43

Welfare and Environmental Impact of Incentive Based Conservation: Evidence from Kenyan
Community Forest Associations
Boscow Okumu, University of Nairobi; Edwin Muchapondwa, University of Cape Town
Discussant: Kenneth Houngbedji, Agence Francaise de Développement

The Impact of Formalizing Land Rights on Deforestation: Experimental Evidence from Benin
Liam Wren-Lewis, Paris School of Economics; Kenneth Houngbedji, Agence Francaise deDéveloppement; Luis Becerra Valbuena, Paris School of Economics
Discussant: Dimitri Szerman, CPI and PUC-Rio

Property Rights and Deforestation: Evidence from the Amazon

Dimitri Szerman, CPI and PUC-Rio; Juliano Assunção, PUC-Rio; Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Yuanyuan Yi, World Bank

Triggers and Outcomes of Collective Action in Common-Pool Resources Management: The
Case of Devolution of Collective Forests in China
Yuanyuan Yi, World Bank; Gunnar Kohlin, University of Gotheborg
Discussant: Boscow Okumu, University of Nairobi

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: CLIMATE

Chair: Grischa Perino, University of Hamburg

Room: Handels: C24

Turning the Global Thermostat: Prospects and Limitation of Demand Revelation for theGovernance of Solar Radiation Management
Wilfried Rickels, Kiel Institute for the World Economy; Martin Quaas, University of Kiel
Discussant: Maximilian Kellner, Technische Universität Berlin

Climate Policy and Optimal Public Debt

Maximilian Kellner, Technische Universität Berlin; Marco Runkel, TU Berlin
Discussant: Sjak Smulders, Tilburg University

Solar Radiation Management Termination: knowing when to start by knowing when to stop
Sjak Smulders, Tilburg University; Martin Quaas, University of Kiel; Wilfried Rickels, Kiel Institute for
the World Economy; Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Discussant: Grischa Perino, University of Hamburg

On cap-wearing windmills, frugal refrigerators, and off-taking Teslas: General equilibrium
impacts of overlapping climate policy instruments
Grischa Perino, University of Hamburg; Johannes Jarke, University of Hamburg
Discussant: Wilfried Rickels, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: GAMESChair: Philippe Mahenc, University of Montpellier (CEE-M)

Room: Handels: D32

The Tipping Game

Florian Wagener, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Aart de Zeeuw, Tilburg University
Discussant: Andries Richter, Wageningen University

The resilience of social norms of cooperation under resource scarcity and inequality – anagent-based model on sharing water over two harvesting seasons

Andries Richter, Wageningen University; Tum Nhim, Wageningen University; Xueqin Zhu, Wageningen
University
Discussant: Philippe Mahenc, University of Montpellier (CEE-M)

Recycling: Is it a Threat or an Opportunity for the Extractor of an Exhaustible Resource?
Philippe Mahenc, University of Montpellier (CEE-M); Bocar Ba, University of Montpellier (CEE-M)
Discussant: Florian Wagener, Universiteit van Amsterdam

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: IMPACT

Chair: Sangeeta Bansal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Room: Handels: B33

The Spatial-temporal Characteristics and influential factors of NOx Emissionsin China: aSpatial Econometric Analysis

Beidi Diao, China University of Geosciences; Jinhua Cheng, China University of Geosciences(Wuhan)
Discussant: Liguo Lin, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Enforcing Environmental Regulations with Technologies: Evidence from Establishing
Automatic Surface Water Quality Monitoring Stations in China

Liguo Lin, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Wei Sun, Shanghai University of Finance andEocnomics
Discussant: Piotr Śpiewanowski, Polish Academy of Sciences

Market Structure and Supply Shocks: Evidence from Mining Disasters

Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Institute for Macroeconomics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany; Oskar
Kowalewski, IÉSEG School of Management and LEM CNRS (UMR 9221); Piotr Śpiewanowski, Polish
Academy of Sciences
Discussant: Sangeeta Bansal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Effect of Perform-Achieve-Trade Policy on Energy Efficiency of Indian Industries: Evidence
from Fertilizer Industry

Hena Oak, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; Sangeeta Bansal, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi
Discussant: Beidi Diao, China University of Geosciences

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: INSTITUTIONS

Room: Handels: C22

Chair: Joanna Poyago-Theotoky, Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University

Resource management with costly capacity adjustment under endogenous risk
Bruno Nkuiya, University of Alberta
Discussant: maria arvaniti, CERE, UMEA UNIVERISITY

Strategic Delegation and Centralised Climate Policy

maria arvaniti, CERE, UMEA UNIVERISITY; Wolfgang Habla, Department of Environmental andResource Economics, Environmental Management, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
Discussant: Kerry Krutilla, Indiana University

Environmental Rights Conflict and Institutional Choice

Kerry Krutilla, Indiana University; Alexander Alexeev, Indiana University; David Good, Indiana
University
Discussant: Joanna Poyago-Theotoky, Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University

Green Innovation under Uncertainty - Cooperation and Information Sharing

Joanna Poyago-Theotoky, Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University; Jorge Pereira,
University of Queensland; Heiko Gerlach, The University of Queensland, School of Economics
Discussant: Bruno Nkuiya, University of Alberta

FISHERIES: DETAILS OF POLICY MAKING
Chair: Håkan Eggert, Univerity of Gothenburg

Room: Haga: B210

Access fees, efficiency, selectivity and latent classes: Falkland Islands fisheries
Stefano Mainardi, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Rep.
Discussant: Yaqin Liu, Georgia State University

Non-Parametric Tests of the Tragedy of the Commons

Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University; Yaqin Liu, Georgia State University; Frank Asche, (1)Institute for Sustainable Food Systems and School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of
Florida, Gainesville; (2) Dep. of Industrial Economics, University of Stavanger; Martin Smith, Duke
University
Discussant: Anna Birkenbach, Duke University

Discrete Choice Modeling of Fishermen’s Landing Locations

Anna Birkenbach, Duke University; Martin Smith, Duke University; Frank Asche, (1) Institute for
Sustainable Food Systems and School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida,
Gainesville; (2) Dep. of Industrial Economics, University of Stavanger
Discussant: Håkan Eggert, Univerity of Gothenburg

Bringing equity and distributional concerns into fisheries managementHåkan Eggert, Univerity of Gothenburg; Lisa Björk, Alfred Weber Institute of Economics, Heidelberg
University, Germany; Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Stefano Mainardi, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Rep.

GROWTH AND EFFICIENCY

Chair: Francesca Diluiso, FEEM-Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Room: Haga: B225

Resource Efficiency, Environmental Policy and Eco-Innovations for a Circular Economy:
Evidence from EU Firms

Alessio D'Amato, University of Rome Tor Vergata; Massimilano Mazzanti, University of Ferrara; Giulio
Cainelli, University of Padova

Discussant: arsham reisinezhad, PhD candidate in Economics

Economic Growth and Income Inequality in Resource Countries: Theory and Evidence
arsham reisinezhad, PhD candidate in Economics
Discussant: Francesca Diluiso, FEEM-Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

International Transmission of the Business Cycle and Environmental Policy

Francesca Diluiso, FEEM-Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; Barbara Annicchiarico, University of Rome Tor
Vergata
Discussant: Alessio D'Amato, University of Rome Tor Vergata

POLICY SESSION: AFFORDABLE CLEAN COOKING AS PROPOOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Room: Handels: SEB

Organizer(s): Marc Jeuland, Duke University; Michael Toman, World Bank; Jörg Peters, RWI Essen
Chair: Marc Jeuland, Duke University

The World Bank Group (WBG) has committed itself to the ”twin goals” of accelerating inclusive
growth and all but eliminating deep poverty by 2030. It also has committed itself to accomplishing
this in a sustainable way, interpreted to reflect concern for the environment as well the economy. As
part of its corporate commitment to sustainability, the WBG is actively engaged with developing
countries and development partners to foster low-carbon and resilient growth. My comments will bea reflection on the progress made and challenges faced by the WBG in getting these various pieces towork well together, with particular emphasis on gaps in knowledge that I see as high priorities forenvironmental and resource economics research going forward.
Panelist(s): Yabei Zhang, World Bank ESMAP and SE4All;
Carsten Hellpap, GIZ and Programme Manager, Energising Development Partnership;
Heather Adair-Rohani, World Health Organisation;
Aminata Ndoye Touré, Directorate of Hydrocarbons and Domestic Fuels, Ministry ofEnergy, Senegal;
Marc Jeuland, Duke University;
Jörg Peters, RWI Essen

RESOURCES: THEORY

Chair: Sophie Lian Zhou, Tilburg University

Room: Haga: Dragonen

Recycling of a Primary Resource and Market Power: The Alcoa Case
Bocar Samba BA, CERDI
Discussant: Robert Cairns, McGill University

Reconciling Hotelling Resource Models with Hotelling’s Accounting Method
Robert Cairns, McGill University; John Hartwick, Queen's University
Discussant: Sara Aghakazemjourabbaf, University of Waterloo

Optimal timing of hazardous waste clean-up under an environmental bond and a strict
liability ruleSara Aghakazemjourabbaf, University of Waterloo; Margaret Insley, University of Waterloo

Discussant: Sophie Lian Zhou, Tilburg University

Closing the Loop in a Circular Economy: Saving Resources or Suffocating Innovations?
Sophie Lian Zhou, Tilburg University; Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg University; Sjak Smulders, Tilburg
University
Discussant: Bocar Samba BA, CERDISPATIAL ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENT

Chair: Rodrigo Arriagada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Room: Handels: F44

Spatial Difference-in-Differences Techniques: Autocorrelation and Interaction

Shanxia Sun, Shanghai University; Michael Delgado, Purdue University; Raymond Florax, Purdue
University
Discussant: K Hervé Dakpo, INRA

Spatial aggregation of land uses allocation and pesticide efficiency at landscape level A Multiware production approach
K Hervé Dakpo, INRA; Vincent Martinet, UMR Economie Publique, INRA-AgroParisTech; Jean-Philippe
Boussemart, IESEG
Discussant: Marcelo Caffera, University of Montevideo

Spatial Spillovers in the Implicit Market Price of Soil Erosion: an estimation

Marcelo Caffera, University of Montevideo; Felipe Vasquez, Universidad del Desarrollo; Daniel
Rodriguez, University of Montevideo; Ignacio Hernandez, Universidad del Desarrollo; Leonidas Carrasco,
INIA; Mariela Buonomo, MGAP
Discussant: Rodrigo Arriagada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

What determines the effectiveness of PES? Unpacking heterogeneous responses across Costa
Rica
Rodrigo Arriagada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Erin Sills, North Carolina State University;
Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University; Adrian Villaseñor, York University
Discussant: Shanxia Sun, Shanghai University

THEMATIC SESSION: CHINA’S NATIONAL CO2 EMISSIONSTRADING SYSTEM: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Room: Handels: Malmsten

Organizer(s): William Pizer, Duke University; Richard Morgenstern, Resources for the Future
Chair: Richard Morgenstern, Resources for the Future

There is great promise as well as uncertainty regarding Chinas national CO2 emissions trading
system (ETS): Will it be effective in reducing emissions of the planets largest emitter? Will it do so
cost-effectively? Can it readily expand coverage beyond the power sector? Does the ETS provide asound model for other rapidly growing economies? This four- paper session will explore key aspects
of Chinas new program, including the interaction of the ETS with complementary programs. Billy
Pizer and Xiliang Zhang contrast the Chinese design with western markets along multiple dimensions
and highlight implications for system performance; Larry Goulder and Dick Morgenstern focus on therate-based structure of the new program (as opposed to the mass-based design used elsewhere),
analyzing the different implications of this structure for allocation, efficiency and compliance. Valerie
Karplus, Xingyao Shen, and Da Zhang examine firm non-compliance with Chinas industrial energyefficiency program. Zhenxuan Wang and Junjie Zhang consider the interaction of Chinas national ETS
with complementary climate policies.

China’s Rate-Based Approach to Reducing CO2 Emissions: Attractions, Limitations, andAlternatives
Larry Goulder, Stanford University; Richard Morgenstern, Resources for the Future

Herding Cats: Understanding Firm Non-Compliance in China’s Industrial Energy Efficiency
ProgramValerie J. Karplus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Xingyao Shen, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology; Da Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

China’s New National Carbon Market

William Pizer, Duke University; Xiliang Zhang, Institute of Energy, Environment, and the Economy,
Tsinghua University

The Interaction of China’s National ETS with Complementary Climate Policies
Junjie Zhang, Duke University; Zhenxuan Wang, Duke University

THEMATIC SESSION: CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTREME
EVENTS: MITIGATION OF THEIR IMPACT THROUGH
OPTIMAL POLICY DESIGN.

Room: Handels: Aulan

Organizer(s): Federico Castillo, University of California, Berkeley; David Zilberman, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley
Chair: Federico Castillo, University of California, Berkeley

Extreme events related to climate change such as droughts, heat waves and floods are likely toincrease in frequency and intensity in the short and long term. The occurrence of extreme events
related to climate change is likely to have a large socio-economic impact on society, particularly on
those most vulnerable. Extreme events impact humans directly via infrastructure damage and healthimpacts but also indirectly via impacts on agricultural, hydrological and other systems of importancefor societal wellbeing. The impact of extreme events is widely distributed across geographical regions
as drought occurrence in California and the Sahel region (2014-2017) and heat waves impacting
Europe (2014) and Pakistan and India (2016) indicate. The topic of the session and the methods
presented are of interest to a wide audience of attendees to the conference including environmental
and agricultural economists, climate change modelers, those in the fields of reginal planning andmodeling of climate and hydrological phenomena, among others. All papers included in the session
are authored by multidisciplinary teams, a necessary requirement when analyzing the extreme
events.

Compliance with voluntary water use reduction measures during drought occurrence: An
analysis of Executive Order B-29-15 in California

Federico Castillo, University of California, Berkeley; J. K. Gilless, University of California, Berkeley;
Michael Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Nery Barrera-Lopez, University of California,
Berkeley. Department of EngineeringVulnerability and adaptation of smallholder farmers to extreme weather events: A case studyof maize and bean farmers in Central America
Milagro Saborio-Rodriguez, Adjunt professor; Francisco Alpizar, EfD Central America at CATIE; Ruth
Martinez, Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science. Conservation International; Celia Harvey, Betty
and Gordon Moore Center for Science. Conservation International; Raffaele Vignola, Environmental
Policy Group. Wageningen University and Research.; Leyla Aguilar-Solano, Independent Consultant;
Barbara Viguera, CATIE

Simulation Model Based on Agents for Land Use Change and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Land
Management Policies

Armando Sanchez, Instituto de Investigacion Economica, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico; Carlos Gay
Garcia, Departamento de las Ciencias de la Atmosfera, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico; Ana Liz
Herrera, Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico; Debora Martinez,
Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico; Bernardo Olvera,
Departamento de Economia, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico

Adoption of Modern Biotechnology and the Economics of Extreme EventsDavid Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley; Justus Wesseler, Wageningen University; Benjamin
Gordon, University of California, Berkeley; Lucy Shim, University of California, Berkeley

THEMATIC SESSION: ECONOMIC CONNECTIVITY AND
SPILLOVERS: INTEGRATING PEOPLE AND THEIR(RE)ACTIONS INTO ECOSYSTEM AND LANDSCAPEMANAGEMENT POLICY DESIGN

Room: Handels: B44

Organizer(s): Heidi Albers,
Chair: Heidi Albers,

Given the scale of the establishment of protected areas following the CBD, and that ecologists
increasingly emphasize the interactions between protected and unprotected areas in generatingconservation benefits from landscapes and ecosystems, broadening Reserve Site Selection (RSS) andEcosystem-based Management (EBM) frameworks to incorporate both ecological and economic
connectivity could improve both the socioeconomic and ecological outcomes from policy. Thisthematic session extends the current literature by examining how economic analysis thatincorporates the actions of people across space can inform management of marine and terrestrial
ecosystems. To achieve this system-wide perspective, each paper considers spatial characteristics ofthe ecosystem and/or resource users. Taking this broader perspective allows development of insights
in policy design features that can increase landscape/seascape-level benefits. The analyses combine
to comment on conservation management policy issues that play out beyond traditional managementboundaries, such as leakage, impacts on multiple resources, labor and land market interactions, andincomplete enforcement. Two papers consider marine settings and two papers consider terrestrial
settings.

Economic Connectivity of Fisheries and Leakage: Defining the Policy Scope for EcosystemBased Fishery Management

Kailin Kroetz, ; Matthew Reimer, University of Alaska; James Sanchirico, University of California, Davis;
Justine Huetteman, RFF

Positioning Parks and Enforcement in the Presence of Spatial Ecosystem Service Production
Functions and Multiple Non-Cooperative Extractors

Benjamin Clayton Benjamin Clayton White, University of Wyoming; Heidi Albers, ; Elizabeth
Robinson, University of Reading; Erik Sterner, Chalmers

Reserve Site Selection with Enforcement Costs and Illegal Harvest

Heidi Albers, ; Charlotte Chang, NIMBioS; Sahan Dissanayake, Portland State University; Kate Helmstedt,
Queensland University; Kailin Kroetz, ; Leticia Ochoa, UNAM; Gwen Spencer, Smith College

Siting Marine Protected Areas for Artisanal Fishery and Conservation Goals with Area
Targets: Costa Rica’s Caribbean Coast

Tabare Capitan, CATIE; Heidi Albers, ; Louis Preonas, University of California at Berkeley; Roger
Madrigal, CATIE; Benjamin Clayton Benjamin Clayton White, University of Wyoming

THEMATIC SESSION: ELECTRICITY AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT

Room: Handels: E45

Organizer(s): Robyn Meeks,

The adoption of energy access targets as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
has thrust energy to the fore of development policy. Universal access to reliable electricity, inparticular, is often viewed as a catalyst for economic growth and development, yet the evidence on
the welfare impacts of electrification remains mixed. An incomplete understanding of the
microeconomic foundations of the electricity-development relationship is both a significant
knowledge gap and a critical policy challenge. The papers in this proposed session bring to bear
rigorous quasi-experimental methods creatively applied to both administrative and geospatial
datasets to engage with these debates. They focus on two critical areas: employment and enterprisecreation, and optimal energy-pricing modalities. As such, they shed light on impacts (of expanding
traditional grid infrastructure as well as access to nontraditional off-grid alternatives) while at thesame time informing policies that seek to ensure the sustainability of energy-services delivery.

Off-grid in Nepal: Heterogeneity in Electricity Services and Enterprise Development
Robyn Meeks,Turning on the Lights: State Capacity in Electricity Provisioning
Meera Mahadevan, University of Michigan

Fracking, farmers, and rural electrifi_x000C_cation in India
Faraz Usmani, Duke University

THEMATIC SESSION: ENDOGENOUS PREFERENCES AND
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Room: Handels: SKF

Organizer(s): Linus Mattauch, ; Inge van den Bijgaart, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Linus Mattauch,

There is recent awareness among environmental economists that policy measures can change
preferences. While policy-makers sometimes may even explicitly aim to change the habits of citizens,
it is far more frequently the case that attempts to influence relative prices also accidentally influence
the process of preference formation. For instance, recent work empirically indicates the relevance ofpreference changes for the success of Pigouvian policies. A more thorough understanding of howpolicy should be optimally adjusted to the presence of endogenous preferences and how policy
measures can change these preferences matters for accurate policy design. While this is alreadydiscussed for economic policy in general, a coherent theory within environmental economics islacking so far. The goal of the proposed session is to present three different but related approaches toendogenous preferences in environmental policy, and encourage further discussion surrounding thisnew research field.

Pigou pushes preferences

Linus Mattauch, ; Cameron Hepburn, University of Oxford; Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics
and Political Science

Dynamic (Environmental) Policy Choices in Presence of Social Norms

Beat Hintermann, University of Basel; Andreas Lange, University of Hamburg

Too Slow a Change? Deep Habits, Consumption Shifts and Transitory Tax Policy
Inge van den Bijgaart, University of Gothenburg

THEMATIC SESSION: FISHERIES IN LATIN AMERICA:
INSIGHTS AND LESSONS FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT I

Room: Handels: CG-room

Organizer(s): Jorge Maldonado, Universidad de los Andes
Chair: Jorge Maldonado, Universidad de los AndesManaging and Defending the Commons: Experimental Evidence from TURFs in Chile

Carlos Chavez, Universidad de Talca; James Murphy, Department of Economics, University of Alaska
Anchorage; John Stranlund, Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Gender and natural resource management in the framework of a conservation agreement:
Experimental evidence for the mangrove in the Colombian Pacific
Yady Marcela Barrero, Universidad de los Andes; Jorge Maldonado, Universidad de los Andes

The role of pro-social motivations in the economic valuation of strategic ecosystems:
combining standard valuation techniques, participatory valuation, and experimental games

Jorge Maldonado, Universidad de los Andes; Rocio del Pilar Moreno-Sanchez, Universidad de los Andes;
Juan Pablo Henao-Henao, Universidad de los Andes

THEMATIC SESSION: NETWORKS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Room: Handels: Volvo

Organizer(s): Efthymia Kyriakopoulou, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Anastasios
Xepapadeas, AUEB, UNIBO
Chair: Efthymia Kyriakopoulou, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Networks are important in many aspects of our lives as they determine our choices or behaviors.
Most decisions that people make are affected by the decisions of their friends: the decision to buy a
product, to work hard at school, to use a specific technology, to commit a crime, to behave in a
specific way. The emerging empirical literature on those issues motivates the theoretical study of
how network structures affect individual decisions. During the last decade, network theory has beenused in different fields of economics: among others, education, crime, labor and financial economics.
Despite, the critical importance of networks on environmental issues, network theory has been

neglected in environmental economics literature. However, the inherent nature of environmental
economics, that deal with a great number of non-market interactions, provide a convincing argumentof why networks could give a new insight in this literature. In this session, we have put together threepapers with the aim to start filling in the gap by analyzing how networks can be used to give new
insights in the field of environmental economics. In all papers, network effects are proved to beimportant in the final allocation / outcome. They also determine the policies that can be enforced inorder to promote more environmentally-friendly outcomes, which explicitly depend on theassociated network structures.

Location, Social Norms and Recycling

Efthymia Kyriakopoulou, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Philip Ushchev, National
Research University Higher School of Economics; Yves Zenou, Monash University and CEPR

Natural Resource Management: A Network Perspective

Efthymia Kyriakopoulou, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Anastasios Xepapadeas, Athens
University of Economics and Business University of Bologna

Charging of electric vehicles: To what extent does the diversity of standards prolonge the lifeof the gasoline car?
Mads Greaker, Statistics Norway

THEMATIC SESSION: OUTCOMES FROM FOREST
COLLECTIVE ACTION AND COOPERATION
Organizer(s): Randall Bluffstone, Portland State University

Room: Handels: E 44/GBJroom

Chair: Randall Bluffstone, Portland State University

Livelihood mushroomed: contribution of enhanced Non-timber forest products (NTFPs)
management on state worker’s household welfare
Jintao Xu, Peking University; Shilei Liu, Peking University

Devolution and Sustainable Management of Forests in Developing Countries: QuasiExperimental Evidence from Household Level Data in Ethiopia

Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Mekelle University; Abebe Beyene, Ethiopian Development Research Institute;Randall Bluffstone, Portland State University; Berhanu Gebremedhin, ILRI

Cooperative Behavior and Common Pool Resources: Experimental Evidence from Community
Forest User Groups in Nepal
Randall Bluffstone, Portland State University; Astrid Dannenberg, University of Kassel; Peter
Martinsson, University of Gothenburg; Rajesh Bista, North Carolina State University; Prakash Jha, CMCC
Bologna

Cooperation under alternative punishment institutions: Experimental evidence from
commons’ dilemma
Dambala Kutela, University of Johannesburg

THEMATIC SESSION: SOLAR GEOENGINEERING:PERSPECTIVES FROM INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS

Room: Handels: E43

Organizer(s): Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology; Garth Heutel, Georgia State
University; Gernot Wagner, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University
Chair: Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology

Climate Engineering under Deep Uncertainty

Anastasios Xepapadeas, Athens University of Economics and Business University of Bologna; Johannes
Emmerling, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; Vassiliki Manoussi, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Quantifying non-cooperative climate engineering

Johannes Emmerling, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; Massimo Tavoni, Polytechnic University of Milan

Mitigation, Carbon and Solar Geoengineering Over Time

Gernot Wagner, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University; Mariia Belaia,
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; David Keith, Harvard School of Engineering andApplied Sciences

Solar Geoengineering and Learning

Garth Heutel, Georgia State University; Soheil Shayegh, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; David Kelly,
University of Miami; Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology

VALUATION STATED PREFERENCE: METHODOLOGY
Chair: Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu, University of Nantes

Room: Handels: B23

Can Stated Measures of Willingness-to-Accept be Valid? Evidence from Laboratory
Experiments

Patrick Lloyd-Smith, University of Saskatchewan; Wiktor (Vic) Adamowicz, Unviersity of Alberta
Discussant: Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu, University of Nantes

Rewarding truthful-telling in stated preference studies

Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu, University of Nantes; Romain Crastes, University of Leeds; Jordan Louviere,
University of South Australia; Ewa Zawojska, University of Warsaw
Discussant: Sergio Colombo, Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IFAPA)

Ex-ante and ex-post measures to mitigate hypothetical bias. Are they alternative orcomplementary tools to increase the reliability and validity of DCE estimates?

Sergio Colombo, Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IFAPA); Wiktor Budziński, Universityof Warsaw, Department of Economics; Mikolaj Czajkowski, University of Warsaw; Klaus Glenk, Scotland's
Rural College
Discussant: Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu, University of Nantes

Open-ended format in contingent valuation: Additional evidence for the new hope
Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu, University of Nantes; Ewa Zawojska, University of Warsaw
Discussant: Patrick Lloyd-Smith, University of Saskatchewan

VALUATION: STATED AND REAVELED PREFERENCES
Chair: Christine Bertram, IfW Kiel

Room: Handels: B32

What is a Non-Market Valuation Study Worth? A Demonstration Using a Meta-Analysis of
Water Quality Values
Robert Johnston, Clark University; Steve Newbold, U.S. EPA National Center for Environmental
Economics (NCEE)
Discussant: Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Arizona State University NBER

Revealed Preference Evidence on the VSL for Seniors

Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Arizona State University NBER; Jonathan Ketcham, Arizona State University;
Nirman Saha, Arizona State University
Discussant: Sonja Köke, Kiel University

Valuation of non-market goods: the life satisfaction approach under methodologicalexamination
Sonja Köke, Kiel University
Discussant: Christine Bertram, IfW Kiel

Contingent behavior and asymmetric preferences for Baltic Sea coastal recreation

Christine Bertram, IfW Kiel; Heini Ahtiainen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke); Jürgen
Meyerhoff, Technische Universität (TU) Berlin; Kristine Pakalniete, AktiiVS Ltd; Eija Pouta, Natural
Resources Institute Finland, LUKE; Katrin Rehdanz, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel
Discussant: Robert Johnston, Clark University

Coffee break

Friday, 10.15-10.45
Room: Handels / Haga

Plenary session
PLENARY

Nava Ashraf Human Nature and Human Development

Friday, 10.45-11.45
Room: Smyrna

Chair: Ben Groom
The outcomes we look to create: improvements in health, education, environment, are not given to
people: they are co-produced together with them. The nature of this co-production requires us tounderstand deeply the drivers and motivators of those who interact with programs and policy to create
their environment. This requires getting deeply inside the head and heart of the end-user, which can be
an individual, a household or a community. This talk will explore how leveraging aspects of humannature in the design of products and programs can significantly improve welfare: work covered includes
time inconsistency from behavioural economics, differing preferences within the household on fertility,
and on incentive design for service providers.

Closing ceremony

Friday, 11.45-12.15

Lunch

Friday, 12.15-13.45

MEETINGS
AERE, EAAERE, EAERE joint meeting of the presidents* (Room: C33)
CAERE meeting (Room: C32)
LAERE meeting (Room: C35)
*Invitation only

Room: Smyrna

Room: Handels

Parallell sessions 11
Friday June 29, 13.45-15.30

Parallel session 11

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Friday, 13.45-15.30
Room: Handels: B22

Chair: Caroline Schill, The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University

Natural Disaster and Risk Sharing Behavior: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Minhaj Mahmud, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies; Asadul Islam, Monash University; Paul
Raschky, Monash University
Discussant: Rebecca Klege, University of Cape Town

The Power of Nudging: Using Feedback, Competition and Responsibility Assignment to Save
Electricity in a Non-Residential Setting.
Rebecca Klege, University of Cape Town; Martine Visser, University of Cape Town; Saugato Datta,
Ideas42; Mathew Darling, Ideas42
Discussant: Adan L. Martinez-Cruz, Assistant professor, CIDE-RC, Mexico, and Research Associate, ETHZurich, Switzerland.

Influence of Green Network Effect and Incentive on Choice of Star Labeled Cars in India: A
Latent Class Approach based on Choice Experiment

Charu Grover, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Sangeeta Bansal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi;
Adan L. Martinez-Cruz, Assistant professor, CIDE-RC, Mexico, and Research Associate, ETH-Zurich,
Switzerland.
Discussant: Caroline Schill, The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University

Uncertainty can help protect local commons in the face of climate change

Caroline Schill, The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences;
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; Juan Carlos Rocha, Stockholm Resilience Centre,
Stockholm University; the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences
Discussant: Minhaj Mahmud, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies

CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACT

Chair: Stephanie Armbruster, University of Basel, Switzerland

Room: Handels: D33

Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Acreage Response
Xiaomeng Cui, UC Davis
Discussant: Blake Shaffer, University of Calgary

Stretching the duck's neck: The effect of climate change on future electricity demand
Nicholas Rivers, University of Ottawa; Blake Shaffer, University of Calgary
Discussant: Birgit Bednar-Friedl, University of Graz

Public adaptation to climate change: The economy-wide costs and benefits and implications
for government budgets

Birgit Bednar-Friedl, University of Graz; Gabriel Bachner, University of Graz; Nina Knittel, University ofGrazDiscussant: Stephanie Armbruster, University of Basel, Switzerland

The effects of flood events on land and housing value: Evidence from the Swiss real estatemarketBeat Hintermann, University of Basel; Stephanie Armbruster, University of Basel, Switzerland
Discussant: Xiaomeng Cui, UC Davis

CLIMATE CHANGE: MODELLING
Chair: Charles Sims,

Room: Handels: C22

All or nothing: Climate policy when assets can become stranded

Matthias Kalkuhl, MCC Berlin; Jan Steckel, MCC Berlin; Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin Instituteof Technology
Discussant: Marie-Theres von Schickfus, ifo InstituteClimate Policy, Stranded Assets, and Investors' Expectations
Suphi Sen, ifo Institute; Marie-Theres von Schickfus, ifo InstituteDiscussant: Soham Baksi, University of Winnipeg

Multiple Pollutants and Cleaner Technology Adoption
Soham Baksi, University of Winnipeg
Discussant: Charles Sims,

Hurry up or wait: The effect of climate change and variability on the timing of private
adaptation
Charles Sims,
Discussant: Matthias Kalkuhl, MCC Berlin

CONTINGENT VALUATION

Chair: Nomsa Phindile Nkosi, University of Johannesburg

Room: Handels: B44

Impact of projection bias on willingness to pays for better air quality: the case of Nanjing,
China

Jie He, Université de Sherbrooke; Bing Zhang, Nanjing University
Discussant: Graça Manjate, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), Universityof pretoria

Scope effects in contingent valuation: An application to the valuation of irrigation water
quality improvements in Infulene Valley, Mozambique
Graça Manjate, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), University of
pretoria; Eric Mungatana, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Discussant: Thomas Broberg, Umeå university

Peak load habits for sale - Soft load control and consumer preferences on the electricity
marketLars Persson, Umeå university; Thomas Broberg, Umeå university; Runar Brännlund, Umeå University

Discussant: Nomsa Phindile Nkosi, University of Johannesburg

Pricing electricity blackouts among South African households

Johane Dikgang, University of Johannesburg; Nomsa Phindile Nkosi, University of Johannesburg
Discussant: Jie He, Université de Sherbrooke

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND MARINE BIODIVERSITY

Room: Handels F44

Chair: Agustin Perez-Barahona, THEMA, University of Cergy-Pontoise and Ecole Polytechnique

Consequences of Space and Species Aggregation in Welfare Estimates of Invasive Species
Stephanie Brockmann, University of Wyoming; David Finnoff, University of Wyoming
Discussant: Sunny Jardine, University of Washington

Estimating the Cost of Invasive Species Control

Sunny Jardine, University of Washington; James Sanchirico, University of California, Davis
Discussant: Paulo Santos, Department of Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University

Evaluating the impact of a fisheries conservation program on biodiversity

Declan Butorac, Monash University; Paulo Santos, Department of Economics, Monash Business School,
Monash University; Phousavanh Phouvin, National University of Laos; Francois Guegan, WWF-Laos
Discussant: Agustin Perez-Barahona, THEMA, University of Cergy-Pontoise and Ecole Polytechnique

The Effectiveness of Protecting Species Through Legislation: The Case of Sea Turtle Lighting
Ordinances

Agustin Perez-Barahona, THEMA, University of Cergy-Pontoise and Ecole Polytechnique; Michael Brei,The University of the West Indies (Barbados) Université Paris Ouest; Eric Strobl, University of Bern
Discussant: Stephanie Brockmann, University of Wyoming

ENERGY: HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
Chair: Mattias Vesterberg, Umeå University

Room: Handels: B23

Household internal and external electricity contract switching in EU countries

Joachim Schleich, Grenoble Ecole de Management; Corinne Faure, Grenoble Ecole de Management;
Xavier Gassmann, Brest Business School
Discussant: Edward Rubin, UC Berkeley

Natural gas price elasticities and optimal cost recovery under consumer heterogeneity:
Evidence from 300 million natural gas bills
Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley (ARE); Edward Rubin, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Chu Wei, Renmin University of China

A new measure of energy consumption in household surveys

Chu Wei, Renmin University of China; Shimei WU, Renmin University of China; Jin GUO, Renmin
University of China; Chuan-Zhong Li, Uppsala University
Discussant: Mattias Vesterberg, Umeå University

An empirical model of the decision to switch between electricity price contracts
Mattias Vesterberg, Umeå University; Gauthier Lanot, Umeå University
Discussant: Joachim Schleich, Grenoble Ecole de Management

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: RESOURCE USE
Chair: Gerhard Toews, University of Oxford

Room: Handels: F43

Bargaining and Contract Choice: Evidence from Informal Groundwater Contracts
Yashodha Yashodha, International Rice Research InstituteDiscussant: Javier Montoya, The Australian National University

The impacts of rewards for hydrological ecosystem services on land cover and household
wellbeing in Moyobamba, Peru

Javier Montoya, The Australian National University; Eduardo Rojas, REDD+ Program - Ministry of theEnvironment Peru; Sven Wunder, CIFOR Latin America
Discussant: Victoire Girard, LEO, Univ. Orléans

The gold digger and the machine. Evidence on the distributive effect of the artisanal andindustrial gold rushes in Burkina Faso
Victoire Girard, LEO, Univ. Orléans
Discussant: Gerhard Toews, University of Oxford

Boom Goes the Price: Giant Resource Discoveries and Real Exchange Rate Appreciation
Gerhard Toews, University of Oxford; Radek Stefanski, St. Andrews
Discussant: Yashodha Yashodha, International Rice Research Institute

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: DISTRIBUTION

Chair: Marcello De Maria, University of Reading (PhD student)

Room: Handels: C24

Carbon Emission and Economic Inequality in India: A State-level Analysis
Haimanti Bhattacharya, University of Utah
Discussant: Basanta Pradhan, Institute of Economic Growth

Climate change mitigation policies and the size distribution of income: A CGE analysis for
India
Basanta Pradhan, Institute of Economic Growth; Joydeep Ghosh, Institute for Economic Modeling
Studies, New Delhi
Discussant: Hiroaki Yamagami, Seikei University

Redistribution of Emission Tax Revenue between Firms and Households

Hiroaki Yamagami, Seikei University; Ryo Arawatari, Nagoya University; Takeo Hori, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology
Discussant: Marcello De Maria, University of Reading (PhD student)

The Economics of the Fair Compensation in Large-Scale Land Acquisition

Marcello De Maria, University of Reading (PhD student); Elizabeth Robinson, University of Reading

Discussant: Haimanti Bhattacharya, University of Utah

FISHERIES: POLICY FOR LOCAL AND SMALL SCALE ACTIVITY

Room: Haga: B210

Chair: Mihoko Wakamatsu, Kyushu University

Some distributional consequences of collective rights in artisanal fisheries

Jorge Dresdner, Universidad de Concepción; Walter Gómez, Universidad de la Frontera; Miguel Jara,
Ministerio de Economia, Chile
Discussant: X. Liu, University of Vigo

The Supply Response of Small-Scale Fishers in License-controlled Mixed Fisheries

X. Liu, University of Vigo; Mikko Heino, University of Bergen; Daigee Shaw, Institute of Economics,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Trond Bjørndal, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Discussant: Alberto Ansuategi, University of the Basque Country

LOCAL FISHING COMMUNITIES AND NATURE-BASED TOURISM IN BAJA, MEXICO

Alberto Ansuategi, University of the Basque Country; Duncan Knowler, Simon Fraser University; Tobias
Schwoerer, University of Alaska Anchorage; Salvador García-Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de Baja
California Sur
Discussant: Mihoko Wakamatsu, Kyushu University

The effect of specific knowledge of fish stocks on the willingness to pay for ecolabelled
seafood: a choice experiment in Japan
Mihoko Wakamatsu, Kyushu University; Shunsuke Managi, Kyushu University
Discussant: Jorge Dresdner, Universidad de Concepción

FOSSIL FUEL: IMPACT

Chair: brock smith, montana state university

Room: Handels: D32

Earthquake alley: Unconventional oil and gas development, induced seismic activity, andhousing price impacts

Wesley Burnett, Department of Economics, College of Charleston; Christopher Mothorpe, Department of
Economics, College of Charleston; Steven Jaume', Department of Geology and Environmental
Geosciences, College of Charleston
Discussant: Kangil Lee, Oklahoma State University

The Impact of Unconventional Drilling on House Prices in Central Oklahoma
Kangil Lee, Oklahoma State University; Brian Whitacre, Oklahoma State University
Discussant: Chin-Hsien Yu, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Chinese Local Residents’ Attitudes toward Shale Gas Exploitation: The Role of Energy
Poverty, Environmental Awareness, and Benefit and Risk Perceptions

Chin-Hsien Yu, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Ping Qin, Renmin University of
China; Huimin Tan, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Xiaolan Chen, Sichuan University
Discussant: brock smith, montana state university

The long Run Effects of Oil Discoveries and the Role of Amenity Valuebrock smith, montana state university; Alex James, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Kevin Berry,University of Alaska, Anchorage; Brett Jordan, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Discussant: Wesley Burnett, Department of Economics, College of Charleston

POLICY SESSION: ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE OR
ADAPTING TO DEVELOP? CHALLENGES ANDOPPORTUNITIES FOR A POLICY VIABLE AND EFFECTIVE
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION ACTION

Room: Handels: SKF

Organizer(s): Francesco Bosello, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of
Milan and Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

Chair: Francesco Bosello, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan andEuro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

Adaptation is not only essential to contrast adverse consequences of climate change, but also
increasingly intertwined with countries social economic development and sustainability prospects.
The fact that all developing countries Nationally Determined Contributions presented at the Paris
COP 21 include explicit adaptation targets is just one amongst the many examples of the policy
relevance of this strategy. The centrality of adaptation to policy decision making is further
strengthened considering that a large majority of planned adaptation actions fall within theboundaries of standard public sector planning and management practices. However, mainstreaming
climate change and adaptation into the policy decision process encounters many barriers. Adaptation
actions take place across evolving scales and contexts under large uncertainties making evolutionary
planning, monitoring and learning at the same time important and very challenging to achieve.
Adaptation, cross cutting by nature, imposes a difficult synthesis and potential tension acrossdifferent policy domains, administrative and responsibility levels. Similarly, it has also to reconcile
legitimate differences in social actors view about how adaptation resources are distributed and thevalues that adaptation seeks to protect.
This session gathers a high level panel of policy experts and scientist from major international
institutions working at the interface between adaptation science, policy design and implementation,
to highlight the peculiar challenges and opportunities adaptation poses and to exchange experiences,
best practices, findings on innovative solutions to increase the factual support from the science to thepolicy making community and make adaptation not only more effective but also politically andinstitutionally viable.
Panelist(s): Sergio Castellari, European Environment Agency;
Michael Mullan, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development;
Paul Watkiss, Paul Watkiss Associated;
Francesco Bosello, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milanand Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

RESOURCES: THEORY

Chair: Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future

Room: Haga: Dragonen

Development of a small closed economy: the role of preferences, technology andenvironmental externalities
Gala Sipos, University of Bern
Discussant: Rafael González-Val, Universidad de Zaragoza IEB

Natural resources, economic growth and geography

Rafael González-Val, Universidad de Zaragoza IEB; Fernando Pueyo, Universidad de Zaragoza
Discussant: Rachel Ruslana Palatnik, the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College

Time to dare and endure: case study of macroalgae two-stage supply chain with co-products
Rachel Ruslana Palatnik, the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College; Mikhail Freer, Department of
Economics, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium; Alexander Golberg, Porter School ofEnvironmental Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley;Mark Levin, Moscow School of Economics
Discussant: Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future

When the Tail Can Wag the Dog: Common-Pool Risk Management and Market Power
Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future
Discussant: Gala Sipos, University of Bern

RISK: PREFERENCES AND BEHAVIOR
Chair: Gunther Bensch, RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

Room: Handels: B32

Risk attitudes and their inﬂuence on ﬂood protection decisions

Markus Glatt, EAWAG; Roy Brouwer, The Water Institute / University of Waterloo; Ivana Logar, Eawag,
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Discussant: Claudia Schwirplies, University of Hamburg

The risks that farmers take: An experiment on externalities with individual thresholds
inspired by fertilizer use
Claudia Schwirplies, University of Hamburg; Andreas Lange, University of Hamburg
Discussant: Francisco Alpizar, EfD Central America at CATIE

Measuring farmers risk attitudes: comparing stated preference methods and incentivized
experiments

Maria Naranjo, EfD Central America at CATIE; Francisco Alpizar, EfD Central America at CATIE; Peter
Martinsson, University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Gunther Bensch, RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

Understanding Behavioral Constraints of Technology Uptake at the Base of the Pyramid

Gunther Bensch, RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research; Michael Grimm, University of Passau and
IZA
Discussant: Markus Glatt, EAWAG

THEMATIC SESSION: CLIMATE POLICY IN A WORLD WITH
FACTOR MOBILITY: STRATEGIC ASPECTS OF POLICYMAKING
Organizer(s): Wolfgang Habla,

Room: Handels: F45

Climate policies are plagued by various constraining factors. First, all uncoordinated policies sufferfrom the typical free-rider problem inherent in the provision of all public goods. Second, with fossil
fuels being traded on world markets, it is feared that unilateral mitigation efforts are undermined bymarket reactions in other countries (”carbon leakage”). Third and related, countries have incentives
to distort the allocation of mobile factors of production, such as capital and resources/energy, in theirfavor. For example, they can boost domestic production by levying taxes on resource use that arelower than their Pareto-optimal rates (and may even be negative), or by subsidizing capital, which
will not only lead to an increase in investment but, due to complementarity of capital and resources in
production, to an increase in resource use and emissions. Fourth, often several different levels ofgovernment levy taxes on the same tax base, leading to further inefficiencies. This session will shedlight on the interactions of international markets for production inputs as well as on the strategicinteractions among governments when competing for mobile factors of production. It binds together
various papers that address the strategic concerns mentioned above.

Tax competition with asymmetric endowments in fossil resources

Max Franks, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Kai Lessmann, Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact ResearchMulti-tier tax competition on Gasoline

Marie-Laure Breuillé, French National Institute for Agricultural Research; Emmanuelle Taugourdeau,
University of Paris-Saclay, CREST

Capital Tax Competition under a Centralized Emissions Cap

Wolfgang Habla, Department of Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management,
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW); Ralph Winkler, University of Bern

Assessing EU ETS minimum prices and commonly used transfers from a multilevel policy
perspective

Christina Roolfs, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Beatriz Gaitan, Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research; Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Mercator
Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin Institute of Technology

THEMATIC SESSION: ELECTRIC VEHICLES: DEMAND
ESTIMATION AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Room: Handels: E45

Organizer(s): David Rapson,
Chair: David Rapson,

The world is attempting to shift rapidly towards an electrified transportation sector, with the primary
aspiration to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, despite declines in battery costs, electricvehicles (EVs) require large subsidies to be cost-competitive with conventional vehicles. In thissession we explore the effectiveness of EV subsidies in spurring EV adoption, and estimate thepotential GHG benefit in the form of which vehicles are displaced by EVs. One paper exploits a quasiexperiment that targets low- and middle-income households in California with massive subsidies (upto $9500 per EV) in order to estimate the price elasticity of demand among this mass-market
segment. Another estimates a structural model of demand to retrieve substitution patterns between
EVs and traditional vehicles. We find that demand for EVs is highly elastic within the low- andmiddle-income segment. On the other hand, EVs tend to displace more fuel efficient cars, which
tempers the benefits under current substitution patterns. The results from both studies are relevant
to policy in any state or country attempting to spur GHG emissions reductions via EVs.

Estimating Demand for Electric Vehicles in Low- and Middle-income Households
David Rapson, ; Erich Muehlegger, University of California - Davis

What Does an Electric Vehicle Replace?

Shanjun Li, ; Jianwei Xing, Cornell University; Benjamin Leard,

Informational Spillover Effects When Clean Vehicle Rebates Are Rationed: Evidence from
California's Low-Income Rebate Program
J.R. DeShazo, Universify of California, Los Angeles; Rongzhang Wang, UCLA

THEMATIC SESSION: ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDINGS:BARRIERS AND POLICY SOLUTIONS IN EUROPE

Room: Handels: E43

Organizer(s): Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet, CIRED
Chair: Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet, CIRED

The notion that energy-efficiency levels are economically suboptimal a phenomenon known as theenergy-efficiency gap has gained renewed interest in recent years. Candidate explanations areusually classified into three categories: market failures, behavioural anomalies and modelling errors.
While market failures have been studied the earliest, with mixed results, behavioural anomalies arereceiving most attention. In contrast, modelling errors are often invoked when alternative
explanations fail, yet they are rarely identified per se. Whatever their nature, the multiplicity ofproblems at the source of the energy-efficiency gap has motivated implementation of an array ofpolicies throughout Europe, without systematically seeking coordination between them.
The proposed session will discuss new explanations for the energy-efficiency gap on the one hand,policy effectiveness when multiple instruments are combined on the other. The gathered
contributions will share a European perspective on these topics.
First, Schleich et al. will discuss the role played by risk aversion in the diffusion of low-energy houses.
Second, McCoy et al. will discuss the role played by modelling errors in engineering predictions ofenergy savings, which an increasing body of literature suggests are overstated. Third, Oacute; Broin
et al. will discuss the effectiveness of energy-efficiency policies implemented across the European
Union in response to the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) enacted in mostcountries around 2009.

Exploring the diffusion of low energy houses: An empirical study in the European Union

Joachim Schleich, Grenoble Ecole de Management; Mark Olsthoorn, Grenoble Ecole de Management;
Corinne Faure, Grenoble Ecole de Management

Why the energy effciency gap is smaller than we think: quantifying heterogeneity, model
error and persistence in the returns to energy efficiency measures

Daire McCoy, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE; Raphaela
Kotsch, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics, UK; The Department of Geography
and Environment, London School of Economics, UKAn ex post evaluation of energy-efficiency policies across the European Union

Eoin Ó BROIN, EnvEcon; Frank Nadaud, CIRED; Erika Mata, Chalmers; Magnus Hennlock, IVL Swedish
Environmental Research Institute; Jens Ewald, University of Gothenburg; Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet, CIRED

THEMATIC SESSION: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ANALYSISFOR TRANSPORT: A FOCUS ON STAKEHOLDERS AND
TRANSITION

Room: Handels: E 44/GBJroom

Organizer(s): Gunnar Eskeland, Norwegian School of Economics; Joshua Linn, Resources for the
Future; Antonio Bento, University of Southern California; Jessica Coria, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Gunnar Eskeland, Norwegian School of Economics

New Evidence on Consumer Substitution Between New and Used Vehicles, and Implications
for the Distributional Effects of Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards and Fuel Taxes

Joshua Linn, Resources for the Future; Xiaoya Dou, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
University of Maryland

Avoiding Traffic Congestion Externalities? The Value of Urgency

Antonio Bento, University of Southern California; Kevin Roth, ; Andrew Waxman,

Optimal environmental road pricing and daily commuting patterns

Jessica Coria, University of Gothenburg; Xiao-Bing Zhang, Renmin University of China

THEMATIC SESSION: HOW FLOOD RISK SEEPS INTO
HOUSING MARKETS

Room: Handels: Volvo

Organizer(s): Katherine Zipp, Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Katherine Zipp, Pennsylvania State University

Flooding is the costliest natural disaster, causing on average US$50 billion per year in global damages(over the last ten years). From an economic efficiency perspective, flood risk needs not pose any
problems as rational agents balance the benefits of locating in a floodplain with the costs of increased
flood risk and damages. However, there is ample evidence that homeowners and developers
underestimate flood risk and expected damages, thereby stimulating inefficient development.
In this session four papers will address the extent to which flood risk and flood damages areinternalized by housing markets. In the first paper, results from a hedonic model indicate that flood
damages are immediately internalized into housing prices after a flood, but attenuate rapidly within
2-4 years. The second paper finds that distant severe flooding events generally do not decrease highrisk coastal housing prices except for houses located in areas with high public awareness of flood risk,suggesting information campaigns are an important policy instrument for inducing efficient housing
market outcomes. The third paper uses a residential sorting model to identify heterogeneous
marginal willingness to pay for reduced flood risk across income and race; an important contribution
to understanding how flood risk policy can differentially affect households according tosocioeconomic status. The fourth paper applies a hedonic housing price model to estimate the impact
of flood zone status on sale prices, and uses the estimated price impacts in a user cost of housing
framework to predict long-term floodplain housing stocks. Together these papers show how
perceived flood risk (accurate or not) affects housing prices across space and over time, who lives inflood prone areas, and floodplain housing stocks.

The impact of flooding on property prices: A repeat-sales approach

Allan Beltran, LSE Fellow in Environmental Economics (Department of Geography and Environment);
David Maddison, University of Birmingham; Robert Elliott, University of Birmingham

The Role of Information in Homeowners’ Response to Flood Risk: Evidence from New Jersey
Caroline Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon University; Nicholas Muller, Carnegie Mellon University

Sorting Across Flood Risk: Implications for Insurance Reform and Disaster Exposure
Laura Bakkensen, University of Arizona; Lala Ma, University of Kentucky

Floodplain Housing Stock Dynamics

Katherine Zipp, Pennsylvania State University; Scott Colby, Pennsylvania State University

THEMATIC SESSION: INNOVATIVE WAYS TO COMMUNICATEENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

Room: Handels: SEB

Organizer(s): Lynne Lewis,
Chair: Lynne Lewis,

For environmental and resource economics to be policy-relevant, we must be able to communicate
with non-economists, both with policy-makers and the public more broadly. We share three papers
that showcase different ways of engaging these constituencies with nuanced, but policy-relevant,ideas from our fields. Sarah Jacobson shares an interactive game that teaches complex concepts inpayment for ecosystem services (PES) to students and professionals, one in a series of such games
shes developed with coauthors. Selma Karuaihe provides guidance on using blended learning from acollaborative graduate program among 13 African universities to communicate with both students
and professionals about environmental economics. Laura Blythe Liu explains how childrens books on
academic subjects can be an effective way for experts to communicate with the public while also
fostering a sense of purpose for busy academics. These papers each use different approaches, but all
involve innovative communication modes and an effort to increase knowledge about environmental
economics. Lynne Lewis adds her expertise in communicating environmental economics issues,
acting in the role of session moderator.

Carbon Taxes for Kids: Engaging the Public with Environmental Economic Topics viaChildren’s Books

Laura Blythe Liu, Indiana University-Purdue University, Columbus; Sharon Shewmake, Western
Washington University

Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Practice Adoption under Uncertainty: A Classroom Game

Sarah Jacobson, Williams College; Sahan Dissanayake, Portland; Babatunde Abidoye, Yale School ofForestry and Environmental Studies

Blended Learning Techniques to Facilitate Interactive Learning: Lessons from a
Collaborative Graduate Program in Africa

Selma Karuaihe, University of Pretoria; Charles Nhemachena, International Water Management
Institute (IMWI),

THEMATIC SESSION: PERSPECTIVES ON POLICIES FOR THE
ANTHROPOCENE

Room: Handels: Aulan

Organizer(s): Gustav Engstrom, ; Johan Gars, GEDB, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Chandra
Kiran, Beijer institute; Anne-Sophie Crepin, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics
Chair: Gustav Engstrom,

Planetary Boundaries in the Anthropocene: New policy challenges in a world of rising global
risks
Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Center

Policies for the Anthropocene

Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg

Complexity, resilience and economics

Anne-Sophie Crepin, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics

Policies for planetary boundaries
Chandra Kiran, Beijer institute

THEMATIC SESSION: UNEMPLOYMENT EFFECTS OF
CLIMATE POLICY

Room: Handels: CG-room

Organizer(s): Garth Heutel, Georgia State University
Chair: Garth Heutel, Georgia State University

The Impact of Carbon Trading on Industry: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms
Ulrich Wagner, Mannheim; Sebastian Petrick, German Institute for Economic Research

Environmental Policy, Full-Employment Models, and Employment: A Critical Analysis

Marc Hafstead, Resources for the Future; Roberton Williams, University of Maryland and Resources for
the Future; Yunguang Chen, Resources for the Future

Unemployment, Labor Mobility, and Climate Policy

Garth Heutel, Georgia State University; Kenneth Castellanos, Georgia State University

THEMATIC SESSION: WATER, SANITATION, AND
DEVELOPMENT

Room: Handels: C33

Organizer(s): Jennifer Meyer, Franklin and Marshall College
Chair: Jennifer Meyer, Franklin and Marshall College

Poor water and sanitation has large negative impacts on environmental quality, health, and wellbeing. While there is a growing epidemiological literature documenting the health effects of poor
water and sanitation in developing countries, the literature studying the economic impacts of andpreferences for water and sanitation infrastructure is still fairly sparse. The first two papers in thissession focus on previously unmeasured economic impacts of water and sanitation infrastructure.
Orgill-Meyer shows that exposure to improved sanitation in early childhood contribute to long-term
human capital development. Cook shows that the lack of accessible water sources contributes todecreased utility for households collecting water. Given these (and other) costs to the lack of waterand sanitation infrastructure, the last two papers in the session explore demand for improved waterand sanitation. Jeuland et al examines the dynamic nature of demand for sanitation and shows that
one-time investments in sanitation are insufficient in stimulating lasting demand for improvements.
Stopnitzky shows how playing experimental games that highlight the collective action nature ofsanitation behaviors can change preferences for water and sanitation improvements. Taken together,
these four papers shed light on the economic costs of poor water and sanitation as well as on ways toincrease demand for improvements.

Long-Term Human Capital Impacts of a Community-Led Total Sanitation Campaign
Jennifer Meyer, Franklin and Marshall College; Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University

Happy Collecting Water? Measuring Hedonic Well-Being among Water Carriers in Rural
Kenya using the Experience Sampling Method
Joe Cook, Washington State University

VALUATION: PREFERENCES

Chair: Melody LEPLAT, BREST BUSINESS SCHOOL

Room: Handels: B33

Which private investors are willing to pay for sustainable investments? A stated choice
experiment
Gunnar Gutsche, University of Kassel; Andreas Ziegler, University of Kassel
Discussant: Maimouna Yokessa, Université Paris-Saclay, Agroparistech, INRA

Consumers' preferences and environmental tax: results from an experiment with milk

Maimouna Yokessa, Université Paris-Saclay, Agroparistech, INRA; Stephan Marette, INRA, Université
Paris-Saclay, UMR Economie Publiqe
Discussant: Yoonmo Koo, Seoul National University

Location decision for environmental public facilities to maximize social benefit
Yoonmo Koo, Seoul National University; Hyunhong Choi, Seoul National University
Discussant: Melody LEPLAT, BREST BUSINESS SCHOOLREGULATING CONGESTION WITH PRICES AND NON-PRICES MEASURES: AN APPLICATION OF
A REPEATED RANDOM UTILITY MODEL TO OUTDOOR RECREATION

Melody LEPLAT, BREST BUSINESS SCHOOL; Carole Ropars-collet, Agrocampus Ouest; Philippe Le Goffe,
Agrocampus Ouest
Discussant: Gunnar Gutsche, University of Kassel

WATER AND PROPERTY RIGHTS

Chair: Kimberly Rollins, University of Nevada, Reno

Room: Haga: B225

Political Economy of Railroad Land Grants: Legal Uncertainty Development of Irrigation in
Colorado and Montana
Eric Alston, University of Colorado; Steven Smith, Colorado School of Mines
Discussant: Encarna Esteban, University of Zaragoza

The Political Economy of Water Policy Reform: Estimating and interpreting lobbying efforts
and effectiveness functions
Encarna Esteban, University of Zaragoza; Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside, School of
Public Policy; Jose Albiac, CITA
Discussant: Andrew Ayres, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Economic Value of Secure Water: Landowner Returns to Defining Groundwater Property
RightsAndrew Ayres, University of California, Santa Barbara; Kyle Meng, ; Andrew Plantinga, University ofCalforinia, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Kimberly Rollins, University of Nevada, Reno

An Empirical Analysis of the Influence of Permitted Place of Use Transfers on the
Performance of Prior Appropriations Water Rights

Kimberly Rollins, University of Nevada, Reno; Gi-Eu Lee, University of Nevada; Loretta Singletary,
University of Nevada
Discussant: Steven Smith, Colorado School of Mines

Programme Overview 201825 June - MONDAY

26 June - TUESDAY

27 June - WEDNESDAY

28 June - THURSDAY

29 June - FRIDAY

8.30-10.15
Parallel sessions

8.30-10.15
Parallel sessions

8.30-10.15
Parallel sessions

8.30-10.15
Parallel sessions

10.15-10.45
Coffee break

10.15-10.45
Coffee break

10.15-10.45
Coffee break

10.15-10.45
Coffee break

10.45-11.15
Opening ceremony

10.45-11.15 AWARDS:
EAERE Lifetime / Practioner
Achievement Awards

10.45-11.15 AWARDS:
AERE Publ. Of Enduring Quality & Best Article in JAERE
EAERE: Young Economist Award & Outstanding
Publication ERE and EU ERC award

10.45-11.45
Plenary session
Keynote: Nava Ashraf

11.15-12.15
Plenary session
Keynote: Lata Gangadharan

11.15-12.15
Plenary session
Keynote: Sir David F. Hendry

11.15-12.15
Plenary session
Keynote: Meredith Fowlie

12.15-13.45
Lunch
EAERE - Country
representatives meeting*
EAAERE Board meeting*
AERE Board meeting*12.15-13.45
Lunch
AERE Members Lunch
EAAERE General assembly
EAERE Annual General Assembly of Members

12.15-13.45
Lunch
IAERE meeting
EDE Editorial Board Meeting*
ERE Editorial Board Meeting*
JAERE Editorial Board Meeting*
REEP Editorial Board Meeting*

08.00-18.00
Pre-congress events

12:30-17:00
EAERE Council
Meeting*

POSTER SESSION

11.45-12.15
Closing ceremony
12.15-13.45
Lunch
AERE, EAAERE, EAERE
joint meeting of the presidents
CAERE meeting
LAERE meeting

POSTER SESSION

16.00-20.00
Registration

13.45-15.30
Parallel sessions

13.45-15.30
Parallel sessions

13.45-15.30
Parallel sessions

15.30-16.00
Coffee break

15.30-16.00
Coffee break

15.30-16.00
Coffee break

16.00-17.45
Parallel sessions

16.00-17.45
Parallel sessions

18.15-19.10
Special Policy Lecture
by Gina McCarthy
19.15 - 21:00
Welcome Reception
at Handels

16.00-16.40
Egg-timer sessions

16.45-18.30
Parallel sessions

18.00-18.20
AWARDS: AERE Fellows
18.20-19.40
Special Policy Session:
Jos Delbeke, Gina McCarthy,
Hua Wang, E. Somanathan
18.30 - 02:00
Congress dinner **at Eriksbergshallen*Invitation only** The Congress Dinner is included in the standard registration fee only
At Smyrna: all plenary sessions, opening and closing ceremony, awards, the special policy lecture and special policy session

13.45-15.30
Parallel sessions

18.30 - 23:00
Social event
at Handels

Optional Post-congress
tour to Marstrand Island
Dinner and Party