9am-5pm, July 25 and 26, 2019 in Ottawa, ON Canada

This workshop at the University of Ottawa is organized under the auspices of the Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation, and Policy (CEIP), held by Prof. Carolyn Fischer, in coordination with the Department of Economics, Institute of the Environment, and Smart Prosperity Institute. This year’s workshop will focus on the theme “The Economics of Environmental Policy and Innovation.”

Technical change is essential for meeting any country’s climate policy targets and other environmental ambitions cost effectively. Indeed, spurring clean technology, innovation and jobs forms a key pillar of the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. This workshop aims to bring together leading academics with students and practitioners interested in environmental policymaking in a context of technical change. It will gather distinguished researchers and young scholars from Canada and abroad.

This CEIP workshop is structured as the capstone of an intensive two-week summer school and course of the same theme. The workshop will be small and collegial to foster a fluid exchange of ideas and experiences.

Presenters will have 25 minutes to speak, followed by a 7-minute presentation by a discussant, who drawn from the pool of students and summer school participants, and 8 minutes for general discussion.

Registration fees are waived for speakers, discussants, and UOttawa students of ECO6304, and participants in the summer school. We kindly ask others to please register through the UOttawa General Store and select the workshop option. Registration fees are CAD350. Graduate students and faculty of UOttawa or Carleton are welcome to attend without registering. A workshop dinner is being organized for formal participants only.

Workshop Schedule

Thursday, July 25

Location: FSS 4007 unless otherwise noted

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:15 Welcome: Carolyn Fischer (UOttawa)

9:15-10:00 Innovation networks and spillovers

· Myra Mohnen (UOttawa) Stars and Brokers: Knowledge Spillovers among Medical Scientists

o Discussant: Ivy Cao (Yale University)

10:00-10:20 Coffee break

Energy innovation - parallel sessions (FSS 4007)

10:20-11:00

· Itziar Lazkano (Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Which fossil fuel prices promote innovation in electricity generation? Evidence before and after the shale gas revolution

o Discussant: Melissa Talbot (UOttawa)

11:00-11:40

· Alessia Sgobba (Trinity College Dublin) Characteristics of on-site integration of CHP and VRE generation for manufacturing in a decarbonized energy system

o Discussant: Mohammed Al-Azzam (UOttawa)

11:40-12:20

· Yeong Jae Kim (EIEE) Influence of policy durability, diversity & stability on energy innovation

o Discussant: Mina Lee (Ontario Ministry of Finance)

Directed technical change - parallel sessions (FSS 4006)

10:20-11:00

· Faisal Ibrahim (Toronto) Unilateral Environmental Policies with Resource-Complementing Machines

o Discussant: Asrafuzzaman (University of Alberta)

11:00-11:40

· Laura Minu Nowzohour (Graduate institute Geneva) Policy Uncertainty and the Transition to Clean Technologies

o Discussant: Brittany Kelly (UOttawa)

11:40-12:20

· Leslie Schiell (Ottawa) Induced R&D and Inter-temporal Burden Sharing of Climate Policy

o Discussant: Yasin Janjua (Environment and Climate Change Canada)

12:20-1:20 Lunch

Industrial innovation

1:20-2:00

· Joelle Noailly (Graduate Institute Geneva) Do financing constraints matter for the direction of technical change in energy R&D?

o Discussant: Leon Bremer (Vrije Universiteit—Amsterdam)

2:00-2:40

· Sahar Milani (St. Lawrence) Induced innovation in the waste management sector

o Discussant: Lukas Barbuscak (UOttawa)

2:40-3:20

· Akio Yamazaki (Calgary) Environmental Taxes and Productivity: Lessons from Canadian Manufacturing

o Discussant: Félix Boulard-Chaîné (UOttawa)

3:20-3:40 Coffee break (FSS 4007)

Vehicles

3:40-4:20

· Arthur Yip (CMU) The Dynamic costs & benefits of technology-forcing policy nested in a broader performance standard: The case of ZEV & CAFÉ

o Discussant: Asrafuzzaman (University of Alberta)

4:20-5:00

· Sébastien Houde (ETH Zurich) Consumer Myopia in Vehicle Purchases: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

o Discussant: Leeson Guay (UOttawa)

7:00pm Workshop dinner*

· David Popp (Syracuse University) Keynote: New research on local innovation

* Attendance by RSVP only for speakers and registered participants. Email sonia@smartprosperity.ca if attending.

Friday, July 26^th

Location: FSS 4007 unless otherwise noted

9:00-9:30 Registration

Climate policy and feedback effects

9:30-10:10

· Chris Boehringer (Oldenburg) The energy efficiency rebound effect in general equilibrium

o Discussant: Julien Boudreau (ULaval)

10:10-10:40

· Andrew Leach (Alberta) Non-renewable resources, reserves, and carbon pricing

o Discussant: Dean Kim (UOttawa)

10:40-11:00 Coffee break

Regulatory oversight – parallel sessions (FSS 4007)

11:00-11:40

· Zach Raff (Wisconsin-Stout) When the regulator goes home: The effectiveness of environmental oversight

o Discussant: Juan Pablo Duran Sanchez (UOttawa)

11:40-12:20

· Margaret Taylor (Stanford/LBNL) Explaining jurisdictional compliance with California’s topdown streamlined solar permitting law (AB 2188)

o Discussant: Anne Lucie Azanfack Fone (UOttawa)

Behaviour and technology adoption – parallel sessions (FSS 4006)

11:00-11:40

· Markus Hermann (Laval) Private and Social Value of Habit Formation, Environmental Consciousness and the Introduction of a Green Product

o Discussant: Christopher James Lavoie (UOttawa and ECCC)

11:40-12:20

· Juan B. Moreno-Cruz (Waterloo) Adaptation to Climate Change by Heterogeneous Farmers

o Discussant: Martin Hatcher (UOttawa)

12:20-1:30 Lunch with keynote

· Greg Nemet (Wisconsin-Madison) How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low Carbon Innovation

Supply push or demand pull?

1:30-2:10

· Eugenie Duguoa (LSE) International Environmental Agreements and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the Ozone Regime

o Discussant: Yeyuxing Chen (UOttawa)

2:10-2:50

· Todd Gerarden (Cornell) Demanding Innovation: The Impact of Consumer Subsidies on Solar Panel Production Costs

o Discussant: Thomas Twene Sarpong (University of Saskatchewan)

2:50-3:20 Coffee break (room 4007)

3:20-4:30 Group discussion

· Antoine Dechezleprêtre (OECD) Environmental policies and innovation: directions for future research

· Carolyn Fischer (UOttawa), Moderator

5:00 Thank you and farewell

· Carolyn Fischer (UOttawa)

Scientific committee:

Carolyn Fischer, Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation, and Policy; University of Ottawa Department of Economics and the Institute of the Environment (IE) (carolyn.fischer@uottawa.ca)

Chris Boehringer, Professor of Economic Policy, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Todd Gerarden, Susan Henry Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow, Cornell University Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Mads Greaker, Oslo Business School Faculty of Social Sciences

Sébastian Houde, Center for Energy Policy and Economics, ETH Zurich

Nick Johnstone, Head of Structural Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD

Myra Mohnen, UOttawa Department of Economics, University of Essex, LSE

Greg Nemet, University of Wisconsin–Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Nelson Institute's Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

Joëlle Noailly, Head of Research and Lecturer in International Economics, Graduate Institute Geneva

David Popp, Carolyn Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy, Syracuse University Maxwell School of of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Nic Rivers, Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy, UOttawa Department of Public and International Affairs and IE

Margaret Taylor, Fulbright Scholar at the Smart Prosperity Institute; Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL); and Engineering Research Associate in Stanford University’s Precourt Energy Efficiency Center