Friday, October 9, 2015 - 9:00am to Saturday, October 10, 2015 - 5:00pm
SEEPAC will be hosting a two day workshop October 9-10 on Advances in the Economics of Climate Change. Attendance is by invitation only.
Objectives: The purpose of the workshop is to identify and advance empirical and theoretical economic methods for analyzing climate change policy. The emphasis is on identifying (a) inadequacies in current methods and (b) identifying promising advances that are both significant and non-marginal. The ultimate goal is to advance the state-of-the-art of applied models and methods for analyzing climate policy.
Motivation: A number of recent publications have suggested the importance of economics to formulating climate policy while underscoring the inadequacy of current knowledge on the economics of climate change. See for instance the September 2013 forum in the Journal of Economic Literature as well as the recent (April 2014) IPCC assessment on the economics of climate change (Chapter 3, WGIII, AR5). This in turn reduces the utility and reliability of integrated assessment models used for policy formation. Although the state of knowledge may be inadequate, there are many promising new research directions being pursued by a variety of economics researchers around the world. It is time to take stock of where we stand and what can be done to advance the state of knowledge in this important area.
Call for papers: here (deadline May 1, 2015)
Organizers: Profs. Marshall Burke and Charles Kolstad
This looks too interesting for me to be a participant, but I'm reposting as a PSA.
