TI Economics Lectures 2023 | Empirical Environmental and Energy Economics

This course will provide an overview of empirical research in environmental and energy economics. As the world reduces emissions and adapts to climate change, governments face important policy design questions. What is the social cost of carbon, and how harmful is air pollution? What are the efficiency and distributional consequences of second-best policies such as automotive fuel economy standards, zero-emission vehicle mandates, and subsidies for energy efficiency and renewables? How can politically feasible policies be adjusted to improve economic efficiency? If governments fail to act, how effective are voluntary actions by individuals and firms? Professor Allcott will discuss the latest evidence on these issues using tools from public finance, industrial organization, and behavioral economics.

Hunt Allcott is an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of behavioral, public, and environmental/energy economics. He is a Professor of Global Environmental Policy at Stanford, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an affiliate of ideas42 and the energy efficiency research group E2e, a Contributing Author on the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and a member of the board of editors of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BS and MS from Stanford University.

Registration and schedule

More information on registration and the schedule can be found on our web page. Participation is free of charge for research master students, PhD students and affiliated faculty.

About Tinbergen Institute

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Tinbergen Institute offers a selective research master program in economics, econometrics and finance, connected to PhD opportunities. The best researchers from the three schools jointly operating Tinbergen Institute are appointed as TI research fellows. TI fellows organize and govern the graduate program, teach the courses and organize and participate in the institute’s research seminars and conferences. All TI fellows are, moreover, available as (PhD) thesis advisors. More information about TI can be found on our website.