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