Download Green growth conference programme 2013

Green Growth
Monday 30th September –
Wednesday 2nd October 2013
All events at RSA House, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ
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Date: Monday 30 September
Macroeconomics Workshop
Venue: Prince Philip Room
13.00
Lunch available in the Romney Room
14.00 – 14.05
Welcome from Alex Bowen (Grantham Research Institute, LSE)
14.05 – 14.45
Baran Doda (Grantham Research Institute, LSE) - Evidence on CO2 emissions and business
cycle fluctuations
14.50 – 15.35
Sjak Smulders (Tilburg) – Give the dirty firms a break: environmental taxes and the business
cycle
15.35 – 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 – 16.45
Karlygash Kuralbayeva (Grantham Research Institute,LSE) - Carbon taxes and labour markets
in developing countries
16.50 – 17.35
Christoph Böhringer (Oldenburg) - Green Jobs and Renewable Electricity Policies:
Employment Impacts of Ontario’s Feed-in Tariff
17.40 – 18.25
Jean Chateau (OECD) - Employments impacts of climate policies in OECD countries: a CGE
analysis
18.25 – 18.30
Closing remarks
18.30 – 19.30
We would be delighted if you were able to stay and join us for a drink following the
workshop
Green Growth
Tuesday 1st October 2013
The Great Room, RSA House, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ
Principal organiser: Alex Bowen (Grantham Research Institute, LSE)
8.30
Registration and Coffee in The Benjamin Franklin Room
9.00
Welcome – Nicholas Stern (Chair of Grantham Research Institute, LSE) and Howard Bamsey
(Director General, Global Green Growth Institute)
Presentations of papers by:
9.15-10.00
Justin Yifu Lin and Jintao Xu (Peking University) - Green Growth and Structural
Transformation [in China]
10.00-10.45
Kirit Parikh (IRADe) - Inclusive Green Growth in India’s Aspirational Democracy
10.45-11.10
Coffee
11.10-11.55
Sjak Smulders (Tilburg), Michael Toman (World Bank), and Cees Withagen (VU University) Growth theory and ‘green growth’
11.55-12.40
Ottmar Edenhofer and Michael Jakob (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) Green Growth, Degrowth, and the Commons
12.40-13.25
Kemal Derviş and Claire Langley (the Brookings Institution) - Economic Policy and Climate
Change: a Reference Price for Carbon
13.25-14.10
Lunch
14.10-14.55
Philippe Aghion (Harvard), Daron Acemoğlu (MIT) and David Hémous (INSEAD) - Global
environmental externalities and policy coordination
14.55-15.40
Dani Rodrik (Institute for Advanced Study) - Green industrial policy
15.40-16.05
Afternoon Tea
16.05-16.50
Stefan Dercon (Oxford University and DFID) - Do ‘green’ and ‘growth’ align? A development
perspective
16.50-17.35
Brad DeLong (UC Berkeley & NBER) – “But We Must do the Wrong Thing!” - Understanding
the “Economic” Arguments Against Dealing with Global Warming
17.35-18.20
Paul Collier and Tony Venables (Oxford University) - Climate change and fossil fuel
extraction
18.20
Closing Remarks – Alex Bowen and Cameron Hepburn (LSE)
18.30
Close
NB. The presenter of each paper is emboldened.
Each paper will be followed by a short period of questions and discussion.
Green Growth
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Date: Wednesday 2 October
Empirical Policy Evaluation Workshop
Venue: Tavern Room
8.45
Arrival and Coffee in the Tavern Room
8.55
Welcome from Alex Bowen (Grantham Research Institute, LSE)
9.00-9.45
Antoine Dechezleprêtre, LSE - Knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies: A
patent citation analysis (joint with Ralf Martin and Myra Mohnen)
9.45-10.30
Pierre Mohnen, UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University - Revisiting the Porter Hypothesis: An
Empirical Analysis of Green Innovation for The Netherlands (joint with George van Leeuwen)
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-11.45
Stefania Lovo, LSE - The effect of environmental decentralization on polluting industries in
India
11.45-12.30
Ralf Martin, Imperial College - The impact of the European carbon market on carbon
emissions, jobs and international trade: Evidence from France (joint with Jonathan Colmer
and Mirabelle Muuls)
12.30-13.15
Lunch
13.15-14.00
Mintewab Bezabih, LSE - The impact of land certification on agricultural productivity in rural
Ethiopia (joint with Stein Holden and Andrea Mannberg)
14.00-14.45
Juan Pablo Rud, Royal Holloway - Modern Industries, Pollution and Agricultural Productivity:
Evidence from Ghana (joint with Fernando Aragon)
14.45
Close