Presentation material of the Conference on Climate change and inequality

The 70th Anniversary Conference of the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation on Climate change and inequality was held in June in Helsinki.

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DAY 1 – THURSDAY JUNE 13, 2024

08:45 ‐ 09:00 Opening remarks by Jaakko Kiander, Chairman of the Board of Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation

Session I: Chair Matti Liski, Aalto University

09:00 – 10:15 Speaker: Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago

Presentation: Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India

Commentator: Peter Matthews, Middlebury college/Aalto University

10:45 – 12:00 Speaker: Natalia Fabra, Universidad Carlos III Madrid

Presentation: Unpacking the Distributional Effects of the Energy Crisis: Evidence from the Spanish Electricity Market

Commentator: Stefan Ambec, Toulouse School of Economics

12:00 – 13:15 Speaker: Mar Reguant, Northwestern University

Presentation: Smart Rationing: Power Limits for Extreme Events

Commentator: Lassi Ahlvik, University of Helsinki

Session II: Chair David Hémous, University of Zurich

14:15 – 15:30 Speaker: Clare Balboni, LSE

Presentation: Firm Adaptation in Production Networks: Evidence from Extreme Weather Events in Pakistan

Commentator: Tessa Bold, IIES Stockholm

16:00 – 17:15 Speaker: Diego Känzig, Northwestern University

Presentation: Carbon Leakage to Developing Countries

Commentator: Ralf Martin, Imperial College

DAY 2, FRIDAY JUNE 14, 2024

Session III: Chair Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago

09:00 – 10:15 Speaker: David Hemous, University of Zurich

Presentation: Climate policy and sector heterogeneity

Commentator: Per Krusell, IIES Stockholm

10:45 – 12:00 Speaker: Felix Bierbrauer, University of Cologne

Presentation: Is a uniform price on Carbon desirable?

Commentator: John Hassler, IIES Stockholm

12:00 – 13:15 Speaker: Matti Liski, Aalto University

Presentation: Pigouvian Income Taxation

Commentator: Estelle Cantillion, FNRS, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Session IV: Chair Felix Bierbrauer, University of Cologne

14:15 – 15:30 Speaker: Dave Donaldson, MIT

Presentation: Quantifying Aggregate Impacts in the Presence of Spillovers: An Application to the Cost of Environmental Disasters

Commentator: Tomás Dominquez Iino, University of Chicago

16:00 – 17:15 Speaker: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago

Presentation: Anticipating Climate Change Across the United States

Commentator: Prottoy Akbar, Aalto University

17:15 Closing remarks by Matti Liski, Aalto University

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