events
Past Economic Workshops

2008-2009 Energy Policy Lecture Series
Transforming the Energy Economy: Economic Policies for a New Administration

The lecture series is sponsored by Arizona Public Service, the W. P. Carey School of Business and the Global Institute of Sustainability.

2008-2009 Lecture Series – Transforming the Energy Economy: Economic Policies for the New Administration
February 25, 2009
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Room 481, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus.

Severin Borenstein, Professor at University of California-Berkeley and Director of the University of California Energy Institute who will present Cost, Conflict and Climate: U.S. Challenges in the World Oil Market.

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Transforming the Energy Economy: Economic Policies for the New Administration Lecture
January 21, 2009
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Room 481, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus

Robert S. Pindyck, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Professor, Economics and Finance, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present Uncertainty, Extreme Outcomes, and Climate Change. Lecture is cohosted by W.P. Carey School of Business and the Global Institute of Sustainabiiltity

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Half Day Energy Policy Session

December 3, 2008
Time 10:00 AM-1:30 PM
Location: Room 481, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus

Stephen Brown, Former Director of Energy Economics and Microeconomic Policy Analysis, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank
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Charles Cicchetti, Senior Advisor, Navigant Consulting, Inc.
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Ed Fox, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Arizona Public Service Company and Parent Company, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation
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Tim James, Director of Research and Consulting, L. William Seidman Research Institute, Arizona State University
Research Professor, Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

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Transforming the Energy Economy: Economic Policies for the New Administration
November 5, 2008
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Room 481, Global Institute of Sustainability

Paul Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present Meeting CO2 Mitigation Goals: Challenges for the U.S. Electric Power Sector. This lecture series is sponsored by Arizona Public Service, the Global Institute of Sustainability and the W. P. Carey School of Business. For more information contact Rod Groff at Rod.Groff@asu.edu.

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Barbara K. Buchner, Energy and Environment Analyst, International Energy Agency
Energy Policy: The European Perspective
October 5, 2008
Location: GIOS 481
Time: 3:00 PM

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> Lecture flyer


2007-2008 Economics of Climate Policy Series
Developing scientific and economic information needed to design policy that mitigates the sources and adapts to the consequences of climate change is the signature challenge facing interdisciplinary programs in sustainability science. Arizona Public Service, the Global Institute of Sustainability, and the Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy's Economics of Climate Policy seminar series has assembled an internationally recognized group of economists offering five lectures.


Economics of Climate Policy Workshop Series
Ian Sue Wing

March 19, 2008
Time: 3:00-5:00 pm
Location:Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 481

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Boston University. Presented by APS, W. P. Carey School of Business, and the Global Institute of Sustainability.

Paper by Wing and Kolodziej — The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Emission Leakage and the Effectiveness of Interstate Border Adjustments

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Economics of Climate Policy Workshop Series
Global Climate Change Policy: What is Achievable and What are the Options?
William Pizer

January 23, 2008
Time: 3:00-5:00 pm
Location: Tempe Center, Room 158

Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future

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> Presentation (Powerpoint)

Economics of Climate Policy Workshop Series
Discounting Climate Change

Sir Partha Dasgupta

November 13, 2007
3:00-5:00 pm
Tempe Center, Room 158

Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge

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Economics of Climate Policy Workshop Series
Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on US Agriculture: The Importance of Non-linear Temperature Effects
Wolfram Schlenker

October 17, 2007
3:00-5:00 pm
Tempe Center, Room 158

Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and of Economics, Department of Economics, Columbia University

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Economics of Climate Policy Workshop Series
Designing Federal Climate Policy
Raymond J. Kopp

October 10, 2007
3:00-5:00 pm
Tempe Center, Room 158

Senior Fellow and Director, Climate and Technology Policy Division, Resources for the Future

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> Kopp presentation (.swf or .ppt)
> Kopp publication: Greenhouse Gas Regulation in the United States