Program Thursday 21 April

Program Thursday 21 April

08:00 - 08:30 -- REGISTRATION AND COFFEE / TEA Foyer Tinbergen Institute 08:30 - 08:40 -- WELCOME Room: Auditorium Welcome to the TI/ERC Conference on Combating Climate Change Rick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 08:45 - 10:15 -- DISCOUNTING Chair: Andreas Weber Room: Auditorium On Discounting and Voting in a Simple Growth Model Kirill Borissov Discounting Disentangled Ben Groom Capital Beats Coal: How Collecting the Climate Rent Increases Aggregate Investment Linus Mattauch Climate Change and Long-Run Discount Rates: Evidence from Real Estate Andreas Weber 08:45 - 10:15 -- UNCERTAINTY Chair: Alexandra Vinogradova Room: 1.01 High Unknowability in Climate Change Economics: The Case for Less Cost-Benefit and More Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Jack Pezzey An Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on the Insurance Market: Global and Local Analyses Mordechai Shechter Dynamic Resource Management Under Weak Property Rights: A Tale of Thieves and Trespassers Sjak Smulders The Value of Climate Services: Application to Coffee-Farming in Peru Alexandra Vinogradova

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Program Thursday 21 April

10:15 - 10:45 -- COFFEE / TEA Foyer Tinbergen Institute 10:45 - 12:15 -- ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS I Chair: Georges Zaccour Room: Auditorium Members, Joiners, Free-riders, Supporters Erik Ansink Self-Enforcing Environmental Agreements and Trade in Fossil Energy Deposits Ruediger Pethig Self-Enforcing Agreements under Unequal Nationally Determined Contributions Emilson C. D. Silva Adaptation and International Environmental Agreements Georges Zaccour 10:45 - 12:15 -- INEQUALITY AND SECOND-BEST Chair: Jan Siegmeier Room: 1.01 Carbon Taxation, Inequality and Engel’s Law – The Double Dividend of Redistribution David Klenert Fuel Efficiency Improvements – Feedback Mechanisms and Distributional Effects in the Oil Market Snorre Kverndokk Sustainability and Substitutability in a Solvable Growth Model with Irreversible Climate Change Martin Quaas Keeping Pigou on Tracks: Second-Best Combinations of Carbon Prices and Infrastructure Composition Jan Siegmeier 12:15 - 13:30 -- LUNCH Eetwinkel Zwaan, Zuidplein 22, 1077 XV Amsterdam

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Program Thursday 21 April 13:30 - 15:00 -- CLIMATE POLICY Chair: Ingmar Schumacher Room: Auditorium Optimum Commodity Taxation with a Non-Renewable Resource Julien Daubanes Asset Prices and Climate Policy Larry Karp Taxes and Subsidies Induced by Quantity and Proportional Energy Mandates Gilles Lafforgue The Role of Conflict for Optimal Climate and Immigration Policy Ingmar Schumacher 13:30 - 15:00 -- ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS II Chair: Abay Mulatu Room: 1.01 Technological Transfers in Global Climate Policy: A Strategic Perspective Wolfgang Buchholz Compensations to Curb Deforestation Can also Reward Environmental Merit Charles Figuières Cooperation on Climate-Change Mitigation Charles Mason Are UK-based Multinational Firms Attracted to Countries with Lax Environmental Regulations? Abay Mulatu 15:00 - 15:15 -- COFFEE / TEA Foyer Tinbergen Institute 15:15 - 16:15 -- KEYNOTE LECTURE I Chair: Rick van der Ploeg Room: Auditorium Revisiting the Choice of Discount Rates Geoffrey Heal, Columbia Business School 16:15 - 16:30 -- COFFEE / TEA Foyer Tinbergen Institute

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Program Thursday 21 April 16:30 - 18:45 – CLIMATE POLICY: VOTING BEHAVIOUR AND THE GREEN PARADOX Chair: Steve Salant Room: Auditorium Green Paradox or Hotelling Cul de Sac? Robert Cairns Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable? Stefano Carattini Simultaneous Supplies of Dirty and Green Fuels with Capacity Constraint: Is there a Green Paradox? Marc Gronwald Carbon Taxation, Breakthrough Technology and the Green Paradox Niko Jaakkola Second-Best Climate Policies to de-Carbonize the Economy: Commitment and the Green Paradox Armon Rezai Limits to Limiting Greenhouse Gases: Intertemporal Leakage, Spatial Leakage, and Negative Leakage Steve Salant 16:30 - 18:45 -- TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE Chair: Mike Toman Room: 1.01 Pollution Abatement v.s. Energy Efficiency Improvements Jean-Pierre Amigues The Unilateral Implementation of a Sustainable Growth Path with Directed Technical Change Inge van den Bijgaart Dirty History versus Clean Expectations: Can Energy Policies Provide Momentum for Growth? Lucas Bretschger A Paler Shade of Green: Environmental Policy under Induced Technical Change Corrado Di Maria From Fossil Fuels to Renewables: The Role of Electricity Storage Linda Nøstbakken Economic Structural Change as an Option for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change Mike Toman 20:00 - 22:30 -- DINNER BAUT ZUIDAS, Prinses Irenestraat 31-33, 1077 WV Amsterdam

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Program April ProgramThursday Friday 2221April 08:00 - 08:30 -- COFFEE / TEA Foyer Tinbergen Institute 08:30 - 10:00 -- STRATEGIC BEHAVIOUR AND GAME THEORY Chair: Ngo van Long Room: Auditorium Strategic Environmental Regulation of Multiple Pollutants Stefan Ambec Mergers in Exhaustible Resource Industries Hassan Benchekroun Climate Policy Commitment Devices Reyer Gerlagh Virtual Co-mover Equilibria in Games of Climate Change Mitigations Ngo van Long 08:30 - 10:00 -- CLIMATE DAMAGES AND CATASTROPHES Chair: Tasos Xepapadeas Room: 1.01 Gone with the Wind: Estimating Hurricane and Climate Change Costs in the Caribbean Sebastian Acevedo When Cancun met Nagoya Aude Pommeret Coping with Multiple Catastrophic Threats: An Intertemporal Approach Yacov Tsur Climate Change Policy under Polar Ampli…cation Tasos Xepapadeas 10:00 - 10:15 -- COFFEE / TEA Foyer Tinbergen Institute 10:15-11:15 -- KEYNOTE LECTURE II Chair: Cees Withagen Room: Auditorium Keynote Lecture II Hans-Werner Sinn, CESifo and University of Munich

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Program April ProgramThursday Friday 2221 April 11:15-12:00 -- POLICY SESSION Chair: Thomas Sterner Room: Auditorium Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Technical University Berlin Hans-Werner Sinn, CESifo and University of Munich Sweder van Wijnbergen, Universiteit van Amsterdam 12:00 - 13:15 -- LUNCH Eetwinkel Zwaan, Zuidplein 22, 1077 XV Amsterdam 13:15 -14:45 -- ALTRUISM AND MITIGATION CONTRACTS Chair: Franz Wirl Room: Auditorium Destructive Intergenerational Altruism Geir Asheim Self-Enforcing Intergenerational Social Contract as a Source of Pareto Improvement and Emission Mitigation Nguyen Thang Dao Heterogeneous Intergenerational Altruism Antony Millner Climate Change Mitigation Contracts with Private Information either about Benefit or Damage Franz Wirl 13:15 -14:45 -- CLIMATE POLICY AND CARBON LEAKAGE Chair: Maximilian Willner Room: 1.01 Climate Policy and Carbon Leakage with Firm Heterogeneity Antoine d'Autume Strategic Subsidies for Green Goods Carolyn Fischer Do Renewable Energy Policies Reduce Carbon Emissions? On Caps and Inter-Industry Leakage Grischa Perino The Price and Emission Effects of a Market Stability Reserve in a Competitive Allowance Market Maximilian Willner

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Program April ProgramThursday Friday 2221April

14:45 - 15:00 -- CONFERENCE CLOSURE Room: Auditorium Closure of the TI/ERC Conference on Combating Climate Change Rick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 15:00 - 15:45 -- COFFEE / TEA AND MOVING TO THE VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM Foyer Tinbergen Institute 15:45 - 16:30 -- VALEDICTORY SPEECH BY CEES WITHAGEN Aula Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam Green and Grey Paradoxes Cees Withagen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 16:30 - 18:30 -- RECEPTION Aula Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam (next to the aula)

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