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Home | Events Archive | Empirical Environmental and Energy Economics
Tinbergen Institute Lectures

Empirical Environmental and Energy Economics


  • Series
    Economics Lecture Series
  • Speaker(s)
    Hunt Allcott (Stanford University, United States)
  • Location
    Tinbergen Institute
    Amsterdam
  • Date and time

    June 20 2023, 09:30 until June 22 2023, 16:30

Tinbergen Institute Economics Lecture 2023

The Tinbergen Institute Lectures are an annual series of advanced PhD-level courses. Qualified external students are explicitly invited to participate.


Professor Allcott (Stanford University) gave the Tinbergen Institute Lecture 2023.

This course provided an overview of empirical research in environmental and energy economics. As the world reduces emissions and adapts to climate change, governments face important policy design questions. What is the social cost of carbon, and how harmful is air pollution? What are the efficiency and distributional consequences of second-best policies such as automotive fuel economy standards, zero-emission vehicle mandates, and subsidies for energy efficiency and renewables? How can politically feasible policies be adjusted to improve economic efficiency? If governments fail to act, how effective are voluntary actions by individuals and firms? Professor Allcott will discuss the latest evidence on these issues using tools from public finance, industrial organization, and behavioral economics.

Hunt Allcott is an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of behavioral, public, and environmental/energy economics. He is a Professor of Global Environmental Policy at Stanford, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an affiliate of ideas42 and the energy efficiency research group E2e, a Contributing Author on the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and a member of the board of editors of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BS and MS from Stanford University.