Seminars 2023-2024

Spring term: Seminars will be held in Auditorium 4 (1st floor) unless otherwise noted, from 11:00 to 12:15.

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4 Sept 2023 No seminar. 

Internal meeting.


11 Sept 2023 Laure de Preux (Imperial College London)   Auditorium 6

Air Pollution Trading on the European CO2-Permit Market


18 Sept 2023 Eyal Frank (University of Chicago)

The Cost of Species Protection: The Land Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act (with Maximilian Auffhammer, David W. McLaughlin, Elisheba Spiller, David L. Sunding)


25 Sept 2023 Michelle Marcus (Vanderbilt University)

Burying the Lead: Effects of Public Lead Service Line Replacements on Blood Lead Levels and Property Values


2 Oct 2023 Mirabelle Muûls (Imperial College London)

Does Pricing Carbon Mitigate Climate Change? Firm-Level Evidence from the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme


9 Oct 2023 Jason C. Y. Wong (Babson College, TSE visitor)

Inland Flooding: Estimating Damages using the National Water Model


16 Oct 2023 Isis Durrmeyer (TSE-R)

The welfare consequences of urban traffic regulations


Oct 23rd through Nov 5th: no seminar.


6 Nov 2023 Eugénie Joltreau (RFF-CMCC)

Empirical evaluation of the economic and environmental efficiency of Extended Producer Responsibility in Quebec


No seminar on November 13th: TSE Internal Seminars


20 Nov 2023 Allan Hsiao (Princeton University) - Joint with IO

Coordination and Commitment in International Climate Action: Evidence from Palm Oil


27 Nov 2023 Ludovica Gazze (Warwick University)

Temperature and maltreatment of young children


4 Dec 2023 Raphaël Soubeyran (INRAE, CEE-M)

Agricultural Productivity Growth and Deforestation in the Tropics


7 March 2024 Rodrigo Soares (Insper) - joint with BID, March 7th 11-12:15, Auditorium 4

Landing on Water: Air Interdiction, Drug-Trafficking Displacement, and Violence in the Brazilian Amazon


11 March 2024 Gabriela Demarchi (Cirad)

Greater Flexibility in Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from an RCT in the Amazon


18 March 2024 Charlotte Plinke (PIK)

Assessing the Potential of Tax Policies in Reducing Environmental Impacts from European Food Consumption


March 25th through April 21st: no seminar.


22 April 2024 Marion Dumas (LSE)

Global Coordination Challenges in the Transition to Clean Technology: Lessons from Automotive Innovation


29 April 2024 Ryan Kellogg (University of Chicago)

The End of Oil


6 May 2024 Alex Pfaff (Duke University) rescheduled


13 May 2024 Thomas Douenne (University of Amsterdam's School of Economics)

Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Climate-Economy Model with Heterogeneous Households


May 20th: no seminar.


27 May 2024 Robert Metcalfe (University of Southern California)

A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change


3 June 2024 Stefan Ambec (TSE)

Environmental regulation informed by biased experts

10 June 2024 Volodymyr Lugovskyy (Indiana University)

Unintended Consequences of Environmental Regulation of Maritime Shipping: Carbon Leakage to Air Shipping