What happens in the long run to the availability and price of scarce commodities such as oil, coal, gas and other resources that are non-renewable? Or, is the scarce resource the earth climate system where carbon dioxide accumulates from burning the fossil-fuel resources? How much of these resources can be used without triggering dangerous and irreversible tipping points in the climate system? What instruments and mechanisms can be introduced to preserve common-pool resources where the resource itself can be, for instance, fish, forest, or the climate system? What is the role of renewable resources in the transition towards sustainable society?
Environmental Economics Research Group
Overcoming the problem of externalities is a fundamental challenge for both private and public organizations. Environmental economics is primarily concerned with identifying and measuring environmental externalities, proposing conceptual solutions, suggesting implementable policies, and finally evaluating the performance of the policies in place. The lessons vary across institutional settings and depend on domain knowledge ranging from climate change to more local fisheries or ground-water management problems. But the lessons have in common that they are all derived from the same conceptual framework. Because environmental policies are being rolled out widely in the society, the applied work of the group covers a large number of sectors: transportation, electricity, housing, energy commodity markets, forest industry, and, for example, industries affected by the European emissions trading. The group is also strong in resource economics that is concerned with privately owned resources and their optimal use over time.
Please find below the phd-workshop programme for spring 2021:
Tuesday 8.6, 15.00-16.00. Presenter Arttu Ahonen, Support-maximizing Revenue Recyling for a Pigouvian Tax (discussant Anna-Kaisa Kosenius),
Wednesday 9.6, 15.00-16.00. Presenter Jamie Jenkins, Offshore Wind Energy 2100 – Pathways for Renewable Energy Transition in Finland (discussant Enni Ruokamo),
Thursday 10.6, 15.00-16.00. Presenter Sara Zaman, A Theoretical Framework of Visions and Identities in the Smart City (discussant Anna Sahari),
Monday 14.6, 15.00-16.00. Presenter Topi Hokkanen, Optimal Leakage Mechanism under Correlated Information (discussant Iivo Vehviläinen),
Environmental Economics Reading Group
The aim of the reading group is to read empirical papers related to your ongoing or planned research topics. The reading group sessions are intended to be as informal as possible. In each session there is a chair person who chooses the paper, initiates the discussion and takes care of the timetable. No presentations are needed.
Program
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Date: 25/09/2019 3:00 pm
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Date: 09/10/2019 3:00 pm
Location: VATT 1st floor meeting room -
Date: 30/10/2019 3:00 pm
Location: VATT 1st floor meeting room -
Date: 20/11/2019 3:00 pm
Location: VATT 1st floor meeting room -
Date: 11/12/2019 3:00 pm
Location: VATT 1st floor meeting room
Members
Matti Liski
Chair of the group,
Professor
matti.liski at aalto.fi
Lassi Ahlvik
Member,
Associate Professor
lassi.ahlvik at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Topi Hokkanen
Member,
PhD student
topi.h.hokkanen at aalto.fi
Anni Huhtala
Member,
Associate Research Professor
anni.huhtala at vatt.fi
Homepage
Antti Iho
Member,
Dr
antti.iho at luke.fi
Homepage
Pauli Lappi
Member,
University Lecturer
pauli.lappi at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Marita Laukkanen
Member,
Chief Researcher
marita.laukkanen at vatt.fi
Homepage
Marko Lindroos
Member,
University Lecturer
marko.lindroos at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Jussi Lintunen
Member,
Researcher
jussi.lintunen at etla.fi
Kimmo Palanne
Member,
PhD student
kimmo.palanne at aalto.fi
Sampo Pihlainen
Member,
Visiting Scholar
sampo.pihlainen at helsinki.fi
Anna Sahari
Member,
Senior Researcher
anna.sahari at vatt.fi
Olli Tahvonen
Member,
Professor
olli.tahvonen at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Iivo Vehviläinen
Member,
Visiting Researcher
iivo.vehvilainen at aalto.fi
Homepage
Riikka Venesjärvi
Member,
Postdoctoral researcher
riikka.venesjarvi at luke.fi
Maria Wang
Member,
PhD student
maria.wang at hanken.fi
Upcoming Seminars
10 Sep 2019
Environmental Economics
Regulating homogeneous externalities
- Reyer Gerlagh
- Tilburg University
24 Sep 2019
Environmental Economics
The Regulatory Challenge of Restricting Participation to Limit Environmentally Undesirable Production Growth (joint with Atle Oglend)
- Vesa-Heikki Soini
- Hanken School of Economics
22 Oct 2019
Environmental Economics
Cost vector effects in discrete choice experiments – does the size and range of cost levels impact choices and willingness to pay?
- CANCELLED! Heini Ahtiainen
- Luke/HELCOM
19 Nov 2019
Environmental Economics
Nuclear Power, Democracy, Development, and Nuclear Warheads: Determinants for Introducing Nuclear Power
- Anne Neumann
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology and German Institute for Economic Research, DIW
8 Oct 2019
Environmental Economics
On optimal extraction under asymmetric information over reclamation costs
- Pauli Lappi
- University of Helsinki
28 Jan 2020
Environmental Economics
Crop production, water pollution and climate mitigation
- Matti Sihvonen
- University of Helsinki
3 Mar 2020
Environmental Economics
The Nature of Experience (joint with F. Diekert & Christian König-Kersting)
- Timo Goeschl
- Heidelberg University
10 Mar 2020
Environmental Economics
The Economics of Toxic Substance Control in Europe
- Jessica Coria
- University of Gothenburg
19 May 2020
Environmental Economics
On the choice between price and quantity instrument under endogenous lobby formation
- Pauli Lappi
- University of Helsinki
5 May 2020
Environmental Economics
GSE Environmental Economics PhD Workshop
12 May 2020
Environmental Economics
GSE Environmental Economics PhD Workshop
8 Sep 2020
Environmental Economics
Investment and the timing of taxes: Evidence from oil drilling in the North Sea
- Lassi Ahlvik
- University of Helsinki
22 Sep 2020
Environmental Economics
The effect of information nudges on energy saving: observations from a randomized field experiment in Finland (with Meriläinen, T., Karhinen, S. & Svento, R.)
- Enni Ruokamo
- Syke
3 Nov 2020
Environmental Economics
Information, Accountability and Regulatory Enforcement: Evidence from Pollution Monitoring in China
- Zichen Deng
- NHH Bergen
20 Oct 2020
Environmental Economics
Emissions Trading Scheme and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from China
- Ruijie Tian
- University of Gothenburg
17 Nov 2020
Environmental Economics
The price elasticity of electricity demand when marginal incentives are very large
- Mattias Vesterberg
- Umeå University
9 Feb 2021
Environmental Economics
Speed limits and vehicle accidents in built-up areas: The impact of 30 km/h zones
- Davide Cerruti
- ETH Zürich
1 Dec 2020
Environmental Economics
Issues in second-best instrument choice – Entry, exit, and subsidization in the implementation of environmental regulation
- Harri Nikula
- Tampere University
15 Dec 2020
Environmental Economics
The Landlord-Tenant Problem and Energy Efficiency in the Residential Rental Market
- Lisa Ryan and Ivan Petrov
- University College Dublin
16 Mar 2021
Environmental Economics
Do international fisheries prevent fisheries collapse? Evidence from RFMO’s
- Fredrik Salenius
- University of Helsinki
30 Mar 2021
Environmental Economics
The equilibrium impacts of environmental regulation
- Iivo Vehviläinen
- Aalto University
13 Apr 2021
Environmental Economics
Simple and Optimal Contract Design for Payment for Ecosystem Services
- Wanyi Li
- Stanford
27 Apr 2021
Environmental Economics
Cash-for-Clunkers Finland: Evaluating Effects on Vehicle Fleet CO2-Intensity with Household-Level Data
- Marita Laukkanen, Anna Sahari
- VATT
11 May 2021
Environmental Economics
Reverse-Grandfathering
- Corbett Grainger
- University of Wisconsin Madison
