Congratulations to Nick Kristof of the New York Times. I am really impressed with this discussion between him and Carol in Berkeley.
In recent decades, U.S Clean Air Regulations have focused on reducing the emissions of new cars, new factories and new power plants. Old cars, old factories and old power plants have often been "grandfathered" and haven't faced regulations.
Post-pandemic many educated people will be working from home 3 days a week. Some of these people will choose to live further from city centers.
Several excellent urban economics research teams have access to U.S geocoded cell phone data. Since I am not part of any of these teams, I will use this blog post to offer them some unsolicited advice. For some examples of these teams; skim this and this .
An active research field in climate economics uses natural disasters as "natural experiments" to learn about the economic effects of such shocks. Amine Ouazad and I study how major hurricanes impact bank lending and securitization patterns in this study.
The New York Times has published an excellent piece about an emerging coal shortage in China. Let's use the supply and demand framework to study this issue. Aggregate demand for coal in China is rising because it is winter and much of the nation's winter heating is supplied by burning coal.
Mark Tercek's recently posted an interesting column where he makes the case for why major cash investments in the "blue chip" environmental interest groups is a wise use of Jeff Bezos' funds.
