Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics
The Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics is an online seminar series hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The seminar is open to everyone interested in research on the economics of climate change—including topics drawn from macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance, econometrics, and environmental economics. Hear about the genesis and first year of VSCE seminars in this VoxEU/CEPR interview.
We convene on Zoom for a 50-minute talk and up to 25 minutes of discussion and Q&A.
Register to attend seminar series via Zoom.
Please submit your registration to receive emails with Zoom links to attend the series. You only need to register once to automatically get an email for each upcoming Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics with a link to join.
Seminar series organizers
- Glenn Rudebusch (Brookings Institution)
- Michael Bauer (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
- Stephie Fried (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
- Òscar Jordà (UC Davis, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
- Fernanda Nechio (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
- Toan Phan (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
To get in touch, share feedback or suggestions, or propose a speaker, please email us at virtualclimateseminar@sf.frb.org.
Upcoming Seminars
Roberto Rigobon, MIT
ESG Confusion and Stock Returns: Tackling the Problem of Noise
October 5, 2023: SF 8:00am, NYC 11:00am, BERLIN 5:00pm
Carolyn Kousky, Environmental Defense Fund
Insurance and Climate Change
October 19, 2023: SF 8:00am, NYC 11:00am, BERLIN 5:00pm
Joseph Aldy, Harvard
Private Benefits from Public Investment in Climate Adaptation and Resilience
November 9, 2023: SF 8:00am, NYC 11:00am, BERLIN 5:00pm
Greg Casey, Williams College
The Macroeconomics of Clean Energy Subsidies
November 16, 2023: SF 8:00am, NYC 11:00am, BERLIN 5:00pm
Simon Scheidegger, HEC Lausanne
Deep Uncertainty Quantification: With an Application to Integrated Assessment Models, with Aleksandra Friedl, Felix Kübler, and Takafumi Usui
November 30, 2023: SF 8:00am, NYC 11:00am, BERLIN 5:00pm
Valentina Bosetti, Bocconi University
Paper TBA
December 14, 2023: SF 8:00am, NYC 11:00am, BERLIN 5:00pm
Past Seminars
James H. Stock, Harvard University
The Macroeconomic Impact of Europe’s Carbon Taxes
The Macroeconomic Impact of Europe’s Carbon Taxes
July 16, 2020
Simon Dietz, London School of Economics
Are Economists Getting Climate Dynamics Right and Does It Matter?
July 30, 2020
Laura Bakkensen, University of Arizona
Sorting Over Flood Risk and Implications for Policy Reform
August 13, 2020
Esteban A. Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University
The Economic Geography of Global Warming
September 3, 2020
Rick Van der Ploeg, University of Oxford
Climate Policy and Asset Diversification
September 17, 2020
Lint Barrage, University of California at Santa Barbara
The Fiscal Costs of Climate Change in the United States
September 24, 2020
Per Krusell, Stockholm University
Suboptimal Climate Policy
October 8, 2020
Richard Tol, University of Sussex
The Economic Impact of Weather and Climate
October 22, 2020
Solomon Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley
Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change
November 12, 2020
Stephie Fried, Arizona State University
Seawalls and Stilts: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation
December 3, 2020
Patrick Bolton, Columbia University
Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk
December 17, 2020
Marshall Burke, Stanford University
Climate, Wildfire, and Air Pollution
January 14, 2021
Irene Monasterolo, Vienna University of Economics and Business
The Climate Spread of Corporate and Sovereign Bonds
January 28, 2021
Christian Traeger, University of Oslo
Uncertainty and climate change
February 18, 2021
Robert Engle, NYU Stern
Climate Risk and the Pandemic
March 4, 2021
Gernot Wagner, New York University
Carbon Prices, Preferences, and the Timing of Uncertainty
March 18, 2021
Ishan Nath, University of Chicago
The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change
April 1, 2021
Carolyn Fischer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Business Cycles and Environmental Policy
April 15, 2021
Larry Karp, University of California, Berkeley
Asset Prices as an Incentive for Climate Policy
April 29, 2021
Frances Moore, University of California at Davis
Use and Non-use Value of Nature and the Social Cost of Carbon
May 13, 2021
Neng Wang, Columbia Business School
Welfare Consequences of Sustainable Finance
May 27, 2021
Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago
Central Banking Challenges Posed by Uncertain Climate Change and Natural Disasters
June 10, 2021
Tamma Carleton, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Data-Driven Approach to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon
July 15, 2021
Ivan Rudik, Cornell University
Climate Contagion: Heterogeneity and Market Adaptation to Climate Change in Dynamic-Spatial Equilibrium
July 29, 2021
Bård Harstad, University of Oslo
Pledge-and-Review Bargaining: From Kyoto to Paris
August 19, 2021
Kyle Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara
Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate
September 9, 2021
Thomas Stoerk, LSE
Economic Impacts of Tipping Points in the Climate System
September 23, 2021
Mar Reguant, Northwestern University, Department of Economics
Climate Change: A Report
October 7, 2021
Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Climate, Technology, Family Size: On the Crossroad between Two Ultimate Externalities
October 21, 2021
Nancy Wallace, University of California at Berkeley
Mortgage Markets with Climate-Change Risk: Evidence from Wildfires in California
November 4, 2021
Felix Pretis, University of Victoria
What Reduces Road CO2 Emissions? Policy Attribution Using Break Detection
November 18, 2021
Paige Weber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dynamic Responses to Carbon Pricing in the Electricity Sector
December 2, 2021
Ben Groom, London School of Economics
The Social Value of Offsets
December 16, 2021
Sir David Hendry, University of Oxford
Can the UK Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050?
January 13, 2022
Toan Phan, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Evidence and Theory
February 10, 2022
Sumudu Watugala, Cornell University
Banking on Carbon: Corporate Lending and Cap and Trade Policy
February 24, 2022
Christian Gollier, Toulouse School of Economics
The Cost-Efficiency Carbon Pricing Puzzle
March 10, 2022
Jean-Paul Renne, HEC Lausanne
Climate Linkers: Rationale and Pricing
March 24, 2022
Ralf Martin, Imperial College of London
Managerial and Financial Barriers During the Green Transition
April 7, 2022
Katherine Wagner, UC Berkeley
Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing (with Jonathan T. Hawkins-Peirot)
April 21, 2022
Warwick J. McKibbin, Australian National University
Global Economic Impacts of Climate Shocks, Climate Policy and Changes in Climate Risk Assessment
May 5, 2022
Eva Steiner, Pennsylvania State University
Climate Change and Commercial Real Estate: Evidence from Hurricane Sandy
May 19, 2022
Diego Känzig, London Business School
The unequal economic consequences of carbon pricing
June 2, 2022
Victoria Xie, Santa Clara University
Expecting Floods: Firm Entry, Employment, and Aggregate Implications
June 16, 2022
Jesús Gonzalo, U. Carlos III Madrid
Climate Change Heterogeneity: A New Quantitative Approach
July 7, 2022
Stefano Giglio, Yale School of Management
A Quantity-based Approach to Constructing Climate Risk Hedge Portfolios
September 8, 2022
Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics
Climate-change pledges, actions and outcomes
September 22, 2022
Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University
Minimax-Regret Climate Policy with Deep Uncertainty in Climate Modeling and Intergenerational Discounting
October 6, 2022
Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona
Informationally Efficient Climate Policy: Designing Markets to Measure and Price Externalities
October 20, 2022
Gib Metcalf, Tufts
The Macroeconomic Effects of a Carbon Tax to Meet the U.S. Paris Agreement Target: The Role of Firm Creation and Technology Adoption
November 3, 2022
Jim Bushnell, UC Davis
Can Time Series Methods Save Energy Policy Models from Themselves?
November 17, 2022
Meredith Fowlie, UC Berkeley
Who Will Pay for the Energy Transition?: Affordability, Efficiency, and Energy Price Regulation
December 1, 2022
Tatyana Deryugina, Gies College of Business
Natural Disasters and Municipal Bonds
December 15, 2022
Aurélien Saussay, London School of Economics
Who’s fit for the low-carbon transition? Emerging skills and wage gaps in job ad data
January 19, 2023
Moritz Drupp, University of Hamburg
Pricing Carbon
February 9, 2023
Robert S. Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Averting and Adapting to Climate Change
February 23, 2023
Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, University of Toronto
The forest awakens: Amazon Regeneration and Policy Spillover
March 9, 2023
Michael Bauer, University of Hamburg
Where is the carbon premium? Global performance of green and brown stocks
March 23, 2023
Galina Hale, UC Santa Cruz
Climate Risks and Exchange Rates
April 6, 2023
Bruno Conte, Universita di Bologna
On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes
April 20, 2023
Jessica Green, University of Toronto
Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses
May 4, 2023
Kevin Stiroh, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Climate Change and the Role of Regulatory Capital: A Stylized Framework for Policy Assessment
May 18, 2023
Tony Smith, Yale University
Climate Change around the World
June 1, 2023
Zacharias Sautner, Frankfurt School
Institutional Investors and the Fight against Climate Change
June 15, 2023
Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University
Household Climate Finance: Theory and Survey Data on Safe and Risky Green Assets
September 7, 2023
Brigitte Roth Tran, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Local Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters, with Daniel Wilson
September 21, 2023