The Political Economy of Energy
USC Price School of Public Policy
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
308 Lewis Hall
9:00 am to 10:00 am: Light Breakfast
10:00 am to 11:00 am: Paper 1
By A Show of (Which) Hands: An Empirical Analysis of Regional Transmission Organization Stakeholder Voting
Zachary Teti (Pennsylvania State University) and Seth Blumsack (Pennsylvania State University)
Discussant: Aditya Dasgupta (UC-Merced)
11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Paper 2
Using the IAD Framework to Model the Political Economy of Technological Change in a Regulated Industry: The Case of Transactive Energy
L. Lynne Kiesling (Northwestern University)
Discussant: Yan Tang (USC Price)
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm: Lunch
1:15 pm to 2:15 pm: Paper 3
Energy Policy Preferences in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Survey Experiments in the UK
Liam F. Beiser-McGrath (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Discussant: Paasha Mahdavi (UCSB)
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm: Paper 4
Domestic Politics in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System: Evidence from Free Allowance Allocation
Justin Melnick (NYU)
Discussant: Michael Ross (UCLA)
3:15 pm to 3:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm: Paper 5
Pro-Carbon Policymaking in Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Empirical Assessment
Srinivas “Chinnu” Parinandi (University of Colorado Boulder), and Sara Hoose (University of Colorado Boulder), and Hyodong Song (University of Colorado Boulder)
Discussant: Pamela McCann (USC Price)
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm: Paper 6
Elections and Local Environmental Public Goods, 2000-2020
Cesar B. Martinez-Alvarez (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Discussant: Aditya Dasgupta (UC-Merced)
6:30 pm: Dinner at Bacari West Adams
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