We eat and discuss climate economics from 12:30-2 in the Matrix.
| 9/10/2019 | Topic: Reading Club "The GDP Temperature Relationship: Implications for Climate Change Damages" |
| 9/24/2019 | Guest speaker Michael White (Nature) Topic: TBA |
| 10/8/2019 | Guest speaker Antony Millner (London School of Economics) Topic: TBA |
| 10/22/2019 | Egg Timer Presentations Topic: Current Research from CCE Lunch Members |
| 11/5/2019 | Internal Speaker Nick Hagerty (UC Berkeley) Topic: TBA **Note Room Change: We will meet in 220 McCone Hall |
| 11/19/2019 | Guest speaker David Kelly (University of Miami) Topic: TBA |
| 12/3/2019 | Guest speaker Kate Ricke (UC San Diego) Topic: TBA |
| Lunch cancelled for the Spring 2019 semester. |
| 8/28/2018 | Topic: Current Research from CCE Lunch Members |
| 9/11/2018 | Reading Club
"Global Warming Policy: Is Population Left Out in the Cold? (Bongaarts & O'Neill, 2018)" |
| 9/25/2018 | Internal Speaker Leonie Wenz (UC Berkeley) Title: "Quantifying Global Road Access and its Trade-offs to Climate Change Mitigation" and "The Impact of Climate Conditions on Economic Production. Evidence from a Global Panel of Regions" |
| 10/09/2018 | Guest speaker Derek Lemoine (University of Arizona) "Sufficient Statistics for the Cost of Climate Change" |
| 10/23/2018 | Guest speaker Francis Dennig (Standford University & Yale-NUS) "TBA" |
| 11/06/2018 | Topic: TBA |
| 11/27/2018 | Guest speaker Christian Traeger (University of Oslo) "TBA" |
| 12/11/2018 | Topic: TBA |
| 2/1/2018 | Reading Club **(1-2pm in 355 GSPP) "Improving Poverty and Inequality Modelling in Climate Research (Rao et al., 2017)" |
| 2/15/2018 | Guest Speaker Ken Gillingham (Yale) Title: Time-Consistent Declining Discount Rates |
| 3/1/2018 | Internal Speaker Larry Karp (UC Berkeley) Title: Asset Prices and Climate Policy |
| 3/15/2018 | Guest speaker Robert Proctor & Benjamin Franta (Stanford) Title: Weaponizing Economics: Charles River Associates and the Decades-Long Sabotage of Climate Policy |
| 3/29/2018 | No Meeting: Spring Break! |
| 4/5/2018 | Reading Club |
| 4/19/2018 | Internal Speaker Max Auffhammer (UC Berkeley) Title: Heat Impacts on Economic Choices in the Lab |
| 8/24/2017 | Guest speaker Armon Rezai (WU Wien) Title: Climate model uncertainty and the social cost of carbon: A modular approach and a response to climate denialism. |
| 9/7/2017 | Guest Speaker Frances Moore (UC Davis) Title: Shifting Baselines, Climate Trends, and the Perception of Unusual Weather: Evidence from Twitter. |
| 9/21/2017 | Reading Club "Wrestling with Uncertainty in Climate Economic Models (Brock & Hansen, 2017)" |
| 10/5/2017 | Guest speaker Ulrike Kornek (MCC) Title: Who Should Abate Carbon Emissions? Optimal Climate Policy when National Preferences Determine its Implementation. |
| 10/19/2017 | Guest speaker Laura Bakkensen (University of Arizona) Title: Learning from Public Information Under Conflicting Signals: Evidence from U.S. Tornadoes. |
| 11/2/2017 | Guest speaker Lint Barrage (Brown University) Title: TBA |
| 11/16/2017 | Internal Speaker Lucas Davis (UC Berkeley) Title: Measuring Global Air Conditioning Potential. |
| 11/30/2017 (248 Giannini) | Student Presentations (*Note Room Change) Hannah Druckenmiller & Jonathan Proctor Titles: TBA |
| 12/14/2017 | TBA |
| 1/19/2017 | Internal speaker Jonathan Proctor (ARE) "Estimating Global Agricultural Impacts of Solar Radiation Management using Volcanic Eruptions as Natural Experiments" Max Auffhammer (ARE) "Valuing Climate Damages: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide" |
| 2/2/2017 | Reading Club "Which Social Cost of Carbon? A Theoretical Perspective" |
| 2/16/2017 | Guest speaker Sam Heft-Neal (Stanford) Title TBA Felix Pretis (Oxford) Title TBA |
| 2/23/2017 (GSPP 12:00-1:30) | Guest speaker Delavane Diaz (EPRI) "Managing Climate Risks with CO2 Mitigation Policy: An illustrative stochastic programming approach with MERGE" |
| 3/2/2017 | Guest speaker David Ubilava (University of Sydney) "ENSO Shocks, Economic Growth (and International Aid): Evidence and Implications for Developing Countries" |
| 3/9/2017 (Giannini 248) | Guest speaker Terry Iverson (Colorado State) "Carbon Taxes and Commitment with Non-Constant Time Preference" |
| 3/16/2017 | Guest speaker Wolfram Schlenker (Columbia) "Weather in Origin Country Significantly Affects Asylum Applications to the European Union" |
| 4/6/2017 | Guest speaker Jim Stock (Harvard) "Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies" |
| 4/20/2017 (248 Giannini) | Job Market Talks |
| 5/4/2016 | Job Market Talks |
| 8/25/2016 | Reading club "Which Social Cost of Carbon? A Theoretical Perspective" |
| 9/8/2016 | Internal speaker Severin Borenstein "Expecting the Unexpected: Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market Design" |
| 9/22/2016 | Reading club "A Forward Looking Ricardian Approach: Do Land Markets Capitalize Climate Change Forecasts?" |
| 10/6/2016 | Guest speaker Bob Kopp (Rutgers University) "Assessing the risks of sea-level rise" |
| 10/20/2016 | Reading club "Price of Long-Run Temperature Shifts in Capital Markets" |
| 11/3/2016 | Reading club "Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change" |
| 11/17/2016 | Student work-in-progress presentations |
| 12/1/2016 (248 Giannini) | Internal speaker James Sallee "Corrective Policy and Goodhart’s Law: The Case of Carbon Emissions from Automobiles" |
| 12/15/2016 (248 Giannini) | Student work-in-progress presentations |
| 1/21/2016 | Guest speaker Michael Oppenheimer (Princeton University) "Sea level rise, deep uncertainty, adaptation, and risk management: a new approach to climate modeling" |
| 2/4/2016 | Reading club First half - NAS Phase 1 report (Max leads discussion) Second half - Dennig et al. (Deirdre & Tamma lead discussion) |
| 2/18/2016 | Reading club Paris agreement |
| 2/25/2016 | Guest speaker Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University) "Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations" |
| 3/3/2016 | Internal speaker Sol Hsiang Climate Econometrics |
| 3/17/2016 | Reading club |
| 3/31/2016 | Egg-timer research ideas |
| 4/14/2016 | Reading club |
| 4/28/2016 | Job market presentations |
| 5/12/2016 | Internal speaker Christian Traeger "ACE – An Analytic Climate Economy (with Temperature and Uncertainty)" |