Inaugural All-UC Conference in Energy and Environmental Economics

June 18, 2010

David Brower Conference Center
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley

9:00am - 10:00am: Coffee and Continental Breakfast

10:00 am - 11:45 am: Mobile Sources

• Kenneth Small (UCI), Response of Light-Duty Vehicle Travel and Fuel Consumption to Fuel Costs
• Alan Spearot (UCSC) and Phillip McCalman (UCSC), Relaxing CAFE: Foreign Direct Investment, NAFTA, and Fuel Economy Standards
• Christopher Knittel (UCD), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: How Gasoline Prices Affect Automobile Local and Global Emissions

11:45 am - 1:00 pm: Lunch

1:00 pm - 2:45 pm: Pollution Control Policy

• Linda Cohen (UCI) and Amihai Glazier (UCI), Futures Markets for Pollution Permits and Incentives to Innovate
• Michael Hanemann (UCB), Flexibility versus Pollution Abatement: The Long-Run versus Short-Run Implications of Emissions Trading
• Robert Innes (UCM) and Arnad Mitra (UCM), Congressional Politics and EPA Enforcement of Clean Air Laws

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm: Break

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm: The Impact of Prices and Information on Energy Use

• Magali Delmas (UCLA) and William Kaiser (UCLA), Electric Usage Information and Public and Private Incentives
• Joshua Graff Zivin (UCSD) and Matthew Kahn (UCLA), Solar Panel Capitalization into Residential Property Values
• Aaron Smith (UCD) and Daniel Sumner (UCD), Estimating Crop Yield Response to Price: Implications for the Environmental Impact of Biofuel Production