Fall 2017 Seminar Schedule

Date	Presenter	School or Institute	Title of presentation
8/23/2017	Solomon Hsiang	University of California, Berkeley	“The Marginal Product of Climate” (Joint with Tatyana Deryugina)
9/6/2017	Catherine Wolfram	University of California, Berkeley	“Is Rural Electrification Worth It? Experimental Evidence from Kenya” (Joint with Ken Lee and Ted Miguel)
9/20/2017	Jing Li	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	“Compatibility and Investment in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market”
10/4/2017	Laura Bakkensen	The University of Arizona	“Estimating Heterogeneous Preferences to Avoid Flood Risk and the Implications for Disaster Exposure” (Joint with Lala Ma)
10/18/2017	Mar Reguant	Northwestern University	“Measuring Leakage Risk” (Joint with Meredith Fowlie)
11/1/2017	Judson Boomhower	University of California, San Diego	“Moral Hazard, Forest Fires, and Adaptation to Climate Change”
11/15/2017	Tomomichi Amano	Columbia University	“Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions under an Energy Efficiency Program”
11/29/2017	Robin Burgess	London School of Economics	“Do Agents Internalize the Environmental Costs They Impose on Others? Evidence from 100,000 Forest Fires in Indonesia” (Joint with Clare Balboni, LSE and Ben Olken, MIT)
12/6/2017	Ryan Kellogg	University of Chicago	“Crude by Rail, Option Value, and Pipeline Investment”