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AERE 2019 Summer Conference Highlights Conference organizers Max Auffenhammer and Katrina Jessoe delivered AERE's largest conference yet, with almost 450 attendees gathering at the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe in Incline Village, NV May 29 - 31, 2019 for the AERE 2019 Summer Conference and Pre-Conference Workshop. In addition to over 80 parallel sessions, the conference included sponsored sessions at the conference focused on fisheries, water resources, CGE models, and marine conservation. Sponsored sessions were supported this year by generous funding from the Office of Response and Restoration (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the Economic Research Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture), and the National Center for Environmental Economics (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). In addition, funding from Legacy Supporter Giannini Foundation paved the way for two sessions on climate change and agriculture, and both the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE), the official research journal of AERE, and the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP) organized special sessions around recent articles. Thank you as well to Gold Supporter The Brattle Group and Bronze Supporters Resources for the Future and Industrial Economics. Other conference activities included the annual AERE Awards Luncheon, a keynote address by Seema Jayachandran, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, a robust poster session, and multiple social events where attendees were able to connect with friends and colleagues in more casual settings. Around 60 people attended the pre-conference workshop, "Advances in Integrated Assessment Modeling," led by David Anthoff, University of California, Berkeley; Elizabeth Koptis, US Environmental Protection Agency; Frances C. Moore, University of California, Davis; and Nicholas Z. Muller, Carnegie Mellon University. The workshop combined lectures on the role of Integrated Assessment Models in policy, climate economics and local air pollution as well as the relationship between empirical work and IAMs with practical, hands-on sessions. 2020 Conference Organizers David David Kelly and Christopher Parmeter, University of Miami, invite you to make plans now to attend the AERE 2020 Summer Conference and Pre-Conference Workshop June 3-5, 2020, at the Hyatt Regency Miami in Miami, Florida. Award Winners Announced at AERE 2019 Summer Conference The following individuals were named 2019 AERE Fellows at the AERE Summer Conference: Wiktor L. Adamowicz (University of Alberta) and Scott Barrett (Columbia University). AERE President Dan Phaneuf shared excerpts from the recommendation letters submitted in support of their nominations:
This program recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of environmental and resource economics. The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2020 award is October 1, 2019. Membership in AERE is not a prerequisite for receiving the award. Learn more The 2019 Publication of Enduring Quality Award was presented to Robert Mendelsohn, William D. Nordhaus, and Daigee Shaw for “The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis,” The American Economic Review, Vol. 84, No. 4 (September 1994), pp. 753-771. The authors were unable to accept the award in person, but issued this statement: "We are most grateful to the AERE for its award for a publication of enduring quality. The research was started at the dawn of analyses of the impacts of climate change, at a time when there was virtually no research designed for climate rather than weather. (This was similar to climate models which were originally just weather models run for a long period.) The inspiration of the article was the observation that all studies for agriculture at the time used high-frequency time-series analysis. These are extremely useful for agricultural experiments and understanding weather shocks, but clearly cannot incorporate longer-term adaptation, such as changing crops, adding irrigation, or (in our whimsy) moving the land to retirement homes. Much to our surprise, the econometric analysis showed just what theory predicted, that impacts after adaptation were much less negative than those without adaptation. The distinction between weather shocks and climate change remains a major confusion even after lo these many years." The 2019 Publication of Enduring Quality Award was also presented to Robert M. Solow for “The Economics of Resources or the Resources of Economics,” The American Economic Review, Vol. 64, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Eighty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (May, 1974), pp. 1-14. The author shared these remarks via email to AERE President Dan Phaneuf: "All of us who think about economics, and write about it, hope to produce something of enduring quality, at least once in a while. I am deeply grateful to AERE for having concluded that my now 45-year-old Ely Lecture belongs in that category. Acceptance by peers in the research community is what counts. I couldn't be more pleased. That essay was a child of its time. In the early 1970s the Club of Rome was popularizing a running-out-of-resources narrative with dramatic implications. It seemed to me that the underlying arguments were quite inadequate, especially because they paid little or no attention to the price mechanism, which is precisely the mechanism that deals with scarcity in a market economy. So I thought I ought to learn what standard economics had to say about non-renewable resources. I soon found Harold Hotelling's article, and that led to my own train of thought and to what you have been generous enough to call a publication of enduring quality. I then did something else that I want to mention. I organized and taught a course on the economics of natural resources, renewable and non-renewable, environmental amenities included. It was the first such course at MIT, but it has persisted in one form or another. I think the students enjoyed it: at the end they presented me with a catalog of every participant in the wholesale fish market at Boston harbor. There was obviously a research project to be done, but I never followed it up." This award is presented for publications based on their seminal nature and enduring value. The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2020 award is December 1, 2019. As with the AERE Fellows Award, membership in AERE is not a prerequisite for receiving the PEQ award. Submit a nomination The 2018 Ralph C. d’Arge and Allen V. Kneese Award for Outstanding Publication in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists was presented at the AERE Summer Conference to Brock Smith and Samuel Wills for “Left in the Dark? Oil and Rural Poverty,” Vol. 5, Issue 4 (2018), pp. 865-904. Brock Smith accepted the award on behalf of himself and Samuel Wills. This award recognizes an exemplary research paper published in JAERE during the calendar year. |
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