Climate reading group topics and papers

Wednesday 3:00-4:00 MVR 1106 (southwest side of the building)

Empirical

Estimating Climate Impacts

August 24: Dell, Melissa, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A. Olken. "Temperature shocks and economic growth: Evidence from the last half century." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 4, no. 3 (2012): 66-95.

September 7: Carleton, Tamma A., Amir Jina, Michael T. Delgado, Michael Greenstone, Trevor Houser, Solomon M. Hsiang, Andrew Hultgren et al. “Valuing the global mortality consequences of climate change accounting for adaptation costs and benefits.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Forthcoming).

September 21: Lemoine, Derek. “Estimating the consequences of climate change from variation in weather.” (2021)

Estimating Climate Adaptation

October 19: Heutel, Garth, Nolan H. Miller, and David Molitor. "Adaptation and the mortality effects of temperature across US climate regions." Review of Economics and Statistics 103, no. 4 (2021): 740-753.

November 2: Shrader, Jeffrey. "Improving Climate Damage Estimates by Accounting for Adaptation." (2022)

Hedonics / Finance

November 16: Murfin, Justin, and Matthew Spiegel. "Is the risk of sea level rise capitalized in residential real estate?." The Review of Financial Studies 33, no. 3 (2020): 1217-1255.

November 30: Painter, Marcus. "An inconvenient cost: The effects of climate change on municipal bonds." Journal of Financial Economics 135, no. 2 (2020): 468-482.

Quantitative

Quantitative Climate Impacts

Krusell, Per, and Anthony Smith. "Climate change around the world." (2022).

Cruz Álvarez, José Luis, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg. "The economic geography of global warming." (2021).

Quantitative Climate Adaptation

Fried, Stephie. "Seawalls and stilts: A quantitative macro study of climate adaptation." The Review of Economic Studies. (Forthcoming)

Bakkensen, Laura, and Lint Barrage. “Climate shocks, cyclones, and economic growth: bridging the micro-macro gap.” The Economic Journal (Forthcoming).

Integrated Assessment

Barrage, Lint. "The nobel memorial prize for william d. nordhaus." The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 121, no. 3 (2019): 884-924.

Golosov, Mikhail, John Hassler, Per Krusell, and Aleh Tsyvinski. "Optimal taxes on fossil fuel in general equilibrium." Econometrica 82, no. 1 (2014): 41-88.