3rd Early Career Workshop on Applied Environmental and Climate Change Economics

Programme

THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER 2026

10:30-11:30

Registration

11:30-12:30

Keynote speach by Jonathan Colmer (University of Virginia)

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Session 1 - Pollution, environmental damages and regulatory responses

Wildfire Smoke Avoidance Costs: A Revealed Preference Approach (Clara Berestycki)

Pathways of Harm: Historical Evidence on the Environmental and Human Costs of Mining (Selina Clarke)

Adjustment Frictions and the Cost of Environmental Regulatory Uncertainty (Yun-Ting Yeh)

15:00-15:30

Coffee break

15:30-17:30

Session 2 - Innovation, carbon pricing and industrial decarbonisation

Collaborative R&D Grants and Clean Tech Innovation: Evidence from the Largest EU R&D Program (Salvatore Finizio)

Carbon Taxation, Firm Performance, and Labor Demand (Jimmy Karlsson)

The Structural Frictions of Industrial Decarbonization (Eunseong Park)

Taxing Carbon across Borders: Trade, Pass-Through, and Green Technology Adoption (Vaios Triantafyllou)

20:30

Social Dinner at Terrazza del Duca (Borgo Mercatale)

FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 2026

9:00-10:30

Session 3 - Energy policies, consumer welfare and access

Do Consumers Over-Finance Energy Efficiency Policy? Evidence from French Fuel Markets (Mathilde Badufle)

A Green Subsidy or a Transfer? Efficiency and Redistribution in Subsidies for Heat Pumps (Tommaso Felici and Joep Keuzenkamp)

Welfare Implications of Off-grid Technologies: Evidence from 31 Countries (Enoch Ntsiful, François Cohen and Jordi J. Teixidó)

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Session 4 - Climate shocks, productivity and labour adjustment

Firms Under Water: Floods, Adaptation and Performance (Roberta Muri)

Weather, Productivity and Work Reallocation: Evidence from UK Survey Interviewers (Paulo Morais)

Climate Shocks, Gender Norms and Labor Supply (Andrej Smirnov)

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Keynote speach by Anna Papp (UC Santa Barbara)

14:30-16:00

Session 5 - Green technologies, behavioural responses and local acceptance

The Electric Vehicle Rebound Effect (Kenneth Gillingham, Beia Spiller and Marta Talevi)

Beauty and the Blades: The Local Economic Impact of Wind Turbines (Davide Castellani, Martijn Dröes and Gabriele Pinto

The Value of Green Job Attributes (Andrea Marini, Fabio Landini and Ugo Rizzo)

Venue: Aula 01 Palazzo Battiferri, Via Aurelio Saffi, 42, 61029 Urbino (PU), Italy

Scientific committee: Giovanni Marin (University of Urbino Carlo Bo; SEEDS; FEEM - chair), Francesco Vona (University of Milan; SEEDS; FEEM), Alessandro Palma (GSSI), Carlo Caporali (GSSI), Giacomo Pallante (University of Trento), Ludovica Gazzè (University of Warwick)