Environmental and energy economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Environmental and Energy Economics Program met in Cambridge on March 5 and 6, 2010. Program Director Don Fullerton of the University of Illinois and NBER Research Associate David Popp of Syracuse University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Karen Fisher-Vanden, Pennsylvania State University; Erin Mansur, Yale University and NBER; and Juliana Wang, Yale University, "Costly Blackouts? Measuring Productivity and Environmental Effects of Electricity Shortages"

* Suzanne Scotchmer, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER, "Cap-and-Trade, Emissions Taxes, and Innovation"

* Thijs Dekker and Cees A. Withagen, VU University Amsterdam; Herman R.J. Vollebergh, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency; and Frans P. De Vries, University of Stirling, "Inciting Protocols: How International Environmental Agreements Trigger Knowledge Transfers"

* Juan-Pablo Montero, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, "Prices vs Quantities for the Development of Clean Technologies...