"The Marginal Product of Climate" by Solomon Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
17.10.2017
15:45 - 17:30
Milan
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Corso Magenta 63
20123 Milan
15.45 Registration
16.00 Introduction and welcome address by Carlo Carraro, FEEM (ICCG Director), IPCC (Working Group III Vice Chair)
16.15 Lecture "The Marginal Product of Climate" by Solomon Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
17.15 Q&A session
Prof. Solomon Hsiang combines data with mathematical models to understand how society and the environment influence one another. In particular, he focuses on how policy can encourage economic development while managing global climate change, how natural disasters impact societies and the effectiveness of policy responses, and how environmental conditions influence social instability and violence. Hsiang earned a BS in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science and a BS in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he received a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Applied Econometrics at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University. Hsiang is currently the Chancellor’s Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and a Research Associate at the NBER.
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FEEM is glad to host Prof. Solomon Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Prof. Hsiang and colleagues have revolutionized the way the economics of climate change impacts is carried out, using novel statistical techniques and large data set to uncover previously neglected impacts on many economic and social dimensions. Prof. Hsiang had a major role in the Bloomberg report and is one of the founders of the Climate Impact Lab.
He will give a lecture on “The Marginal Product of Climate”, an empirical approach to value changes to a climate in terms of total market output given optimal factor allocations in general equilibrium. In his preferred specification, he estimates that, for example, the climate of Northern Minnesota returns over $2,000 per capita more annually than the climate of Southern Texas. Using a 3% discount rate, the net present value of “business as usual” warming (RCP8.5) until 2100 in the median scenario is a loss of $6.7 trillion.
Prof. Carlo Carraro, FEEM (ICCG Director), IPCC (Working Group III Vice Chair), will introduce the Lecture of Prof. Hsiang.
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