Jay Shimshack - Tufts - Environmental Economist
Please join the Center for Business & Environment at Yale for a lunch discussion with:
Jay Shimshack (asst. professor of economics at Tufts)
Re: His research on the electric power industry
TOMORROW, Wednesday, September 27th
12:00pm
Sage Lounge
Lunch will be provided for the first 10-12 who sign up at cbey@yale.edu but all are welcome.
Also, please join us for the environmental economics seminar with Prof. Shimshack at 4pm in the afternoon as well. Please see Prof. Nat Keohane's invitation below.
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At this week's environmental economics seminar, Jay Shimshack (an assistant professor of economics at Tufts) will be presenting his recent work on the effectiveness of information provision as an environmental policy, drawing on data from the electric power industry. The paper studies mandatory environmental disclosure programs in the electricity industry, and their consequences for the fuel mix employed by power plants. It fits into a larger literature on information provision programs, including "right-to-know laws," ecolabeling, and so forth. Jay's perspective will be that of an empirical economist, using statistical analysis on a large dataset to figure out what the broad effects of the program have been.
This topic may be of considerable interest to some of you. Information provision is often touted as a possible complement (or even substitute) for more direct environmental regulations, and its effectiveness in affecting the behavior of firms is therefore of great importance for policy debates and firm strategy. And while Jay is studying a form of government-mandated information provision, there are clear connections to the "market governance" work of Ben Cashore and others on voluntary certification programs. Jay has done previous work in this area, too, including a recent paper on the impacts of mercury warnings on fish consumption.
The seminar is tomorrow (Wednesday) from 4:00 to 5:30 in the Horchow Seminar Room, first floor of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. (corner of Sachem). All are welcome to come.
-nok
Jay Shimshack (asst. professor of economics at Tufts)
Re: His research on the electric power industry
TOMORROW, Wednesday, September 27th
12:00pm
Sage Lounge
Lunch will be provided for the first 10-12 who sign up at cbey@yale.edu but all are welcome.
Also, please join us for the environmental economics seminar with Prof. Shimshack at 4pm in the afternoon as well. Please see Prof. Nat Keohane's invitation below.
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At this week's environmental economics seminar, Jay Shimshack (an assistant professor of economics at Tufts) will be presenting his recent work on the effectiveness of information provision as an environmental policy, drawing on data from the electric power industry. The paper studies mandatory environmental disclosure programs in the electricity industry, and their consequences for the fuel mix employed by power plants. It fits into a larger literature on information provision programs, including "right-to-know laws," ecolabeling, and so forth. Jay's perspective will be that of an empirical economist, using statistical analysis on a large dataset to figure out what the broad effects of the program have been.
This topic may be of considerable interest to some of you. Information provision is often touted as a possible complement (or even substitute) for more direct environmental regulations, and its effectiveness in affecting the behavior of firms is therefore of great importance for policy debates and firm strategy. And while Jay is studying a form of government-mandated information provision, there are clear connections to the "market governance" work of Ben Cashore and others on voluntary certification programs. Jay has done previous work in this area, too, including a recent paper on the impacts of mercury warnings on fish consumption.
The seminar is tomorrow (Wednesday) from 4:00 to 5:30 in the Horchow Seminar Room, first floor of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. (corner of Sachem). All are welcome to come.
-nok
