Thursday, October 23, 2025

1:00 p.m.    

Welcoming Remarks

Session 1
1:10 - 2:10 p.m.

Opening Keynote

Speaker: Carolyn Kousky (Associate Vice-President, Economics and Policy Analysis, Environmental Defense Fund)

Session 2
2:20 - 3:20 p.m.

Floods, Hurricanes, and Sea Level Rise
Moderator: Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois

• Hannah Druckenmiller, California Institute of Technology, “Buyer Aversion to Flood-Resistant Homes” (with Jaimie Choi, Billy Babis, and Michael Toman)
  
• Miyuki Hino, University of North Carolina, “Impacts of sea level rise and storms on residential migration in North Carolina” 
  
• Laura Bakkensen, University of Oregon, “Shifting the Load: How Debt Crowds Out Flood Insurance (with John Bailey Jones, Toàn Phan, and Tsz-Nga Wong)
  

Session 3
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

ET: Insurance
Moderator: Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Resources for the Future

• Joakim Weill, Federal Reserve Board, “Pricing Protection: Credit Scores, Disaster Risk, and Home Insurance Affordability” (with Joshua Blonz and Mallick Hossain)
  
• Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva, Federal Reserve Board, “The Limits of Insurance Demand and the Growing Protection Gap” (with Pari Sastry, Tess Scharlemann and Ishita Sen)
  
• Philip Mulder, University of Wisconsin, “Coverage Neglect in Homeowners Insurance” (with Tony Cookson and Emily Gallagher)
  

Friday, October 24, 2025 

1:00 p.m.

Opening Remarks

Session 1
1:00 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.

Egg-timers: Short Talks on Disasters and Climate Change
Moderator: Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California-Berkeley

• Shifrah Aron-Dine, University of California-Berkeley, “Rebuild or Relocate? Recovery after Natural Disasters”
  
• Tarikua Erda, NYU Stern School of Business, “Disasters, Capital and Productivity”
  
• Jacob Gellman, Oregon State University, “The Cost of Hurricane Evacuations” (with Hannah Hennighausen, Brett Watson, and Kevin Berry)
  
• Seunghoon Lee, University of Missouri, Lee, “Beyond Asset Losses: Estimating the Economic Cost of Floods” (with Xibo Wan and Siqi Zheng)
• Frederick Strabo, University of California-Davis, “Wildfire Damages and the Cost-Effective Role of Forest Fuel Treatments” (with Calvin Bryan and Matthew Reimer)
  
• Rachel Young, University of Minnesota, Buyouts or Migration topic
• Andrew Earle, Eastern Carolina University, “Practical Considerations When Using Wildfire Smoke Data in Economic Analyses”

Session 2
2:20 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.

Climate Change Economics Research and the Press: A Conversation With
Washington Post Reporter Anna Phillips

Speaker: Anna Phillips, Washington Post

Session 3
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Wildfires
Moderator: TBA

• Lala Ma, University of Kentucky, “Sorting over Wildfire Risks” (with Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Emily Joiner, and Margaret Walls)
  
• Patrick Baylis, University of British Columbia, “Incentivizing Self-Protection from Wildfires” (with Juddson Boomhower and Bob Horton)
• Crystal Zhan, University of South Carolina, “Wildfires, Smoke Pollution, and Household Purchasing Behavior”

4:30 p.m.