Program
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics
European University at Saint-Petersburg
Program of the International Workshop
«Natural Resources, Environment, Urban Economics, International Trade and Industrial Organization»
Saint-Petersburg, October 02-05, 2013
02 October, Wednesday
9:00 – 13:00. Registration.
9:30 – 10:00. Morning Coffee.
10:00 – 11:30. Session A1.
1. Wolfgang Habla (University of Munich, Germany, and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Switzerland): Mobile Capital and Non-cooperative International Environmental Policy.
2. Efthymia Kyriakopoulou (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Environmental Policy and the Size Distribution of Firms.
3. Skerdilajda Zanaj (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg): Carbon tax, pollution and the spatial location of heterogeneous firms.
10:00 – 11:30. Session А2.
1. Stefan Behringer (University of Heidelberg, Germany): Optimal Harvesting of a Spatial Renewable Resource.
2. Nicolas Treich (Toulouse School of Economics, France): Climate Risk Policy under Prioritarianism.
3. Masha Chistyakova (LAMETA, Montpellier I University, France) Environmental regulation threatened by fiscal avoidance must hit ‘the green’.
11:30 – 12:00. Coffee-break.
12:00 – 13:30. Session В1.
1. Roman Chuhay (HSE, Russia): Marketing via Friends: Strategic Diffusion og Information in Social Networks.
2. Oleksander Shepotilo (HSE, Russia): Deregulation and productivity: selection or within-firm effect?
3. Sergey Kichko (HSE, Russia): Structure of factor endowments and market integration in a two-factor monopolistic competition model.
12:00 – 13:30. Session В2.
1. Ingmar Schumacher (IPAG Business School, France): The endogenous formation of an environmental culture.
2. Stephane Lambrecht (UVHC, France): Ocean Economics.
3. Roman Zakharenko (HSE, Russia) Trade Costs, Conflicts, and Defense Spending
13:30 – 15:00. Lunch.
15:00 – 16:30. Session C1.
1. Irina Kirysheva (European University Institute, Italy): Informed middleman and asymmetric information.
2. Philip Ushchev (HSE, Russia): Towards a general model of monopolistic competition.
3. Igor Sloev (HSE, Russia): Monopolistic Competition between Supply Chains and Hold-up Problem.
15:00 – 16:30. Session C2.
1. Dmitry Veselov (HSE, Russia): Natural Resources, Extractive Institutions and the Evolution of Social Norms.
2. Helene Ollivier (CNRS, Universite Paris 1, France): Product Mix, Trade, and the Environment: Theory and Evidence from Indian Manufacturing.
3. Nikita Lyssenko (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada): Scarcity vs. Pollution in Public Policy toward Fossil Fuels.
16:30 – 17:00. Coffee-break.
17:00 – 18:00. Session D1.
1. Francois Cohen (CERNA, Mines ParisTech, France): Consumers’ implicit discount rate and impacts of energy taxation: Evidence from the UK refrigerator market
2. Koen Vermeylen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands): Non-Marginal Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Tyranny of Discounting.
17:00 – 18:00. Session D2.
1. Hélène Raesch (Université du Havre, France): Marine Protected Areas: What Impacts Should Be Expected?
2. Stefano Bosi (University of Evry, France): Labor Supply and Pollution.
03 October, Thursday
9:30 – 10:00. Morning coffee.
10:00 – 11:30. Session E1
1. Alexander Sidorov (Sobolev Institute for Mathematics and HSE, Russia): Urban cost-based theory of “central places”.
2. Marion Drut (Laboratoire EQUIPPE, Université Lille 1, France): Urban Sprawl: How space allocation matters.
3. Masha Maslianskaia Pautrel (University of Nantes, France): Hedonic model with discrete consumer heterogeneity and horizontal differentiated housing.
10:00 – 11:30. Session E2
1. Julien Daubanes (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): Optimum Tarifs and Exhaustible Resources: Theory and Evidence for Gasoline.
2. Mikhail Vashchenko (Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of RAS, Russia): Analysis of tax stimulus for russian oil sector through mathematical model.
3. Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline (Paris School of Economics & University of Paris 1, France): Payments for Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils: Incentives for the Future and Rewards for the Past.
11:30 – 12:00. Coffee-break.
12:00 – 13:30. Session F1
1. Dmitry Pokrovsky (HSE, Russia): Market Size, Productivity, Entrepreneurship and Income Inequality in a Model a lá Melitz.
2. Alexander Skorobogatov (HSE – St.P., Russia): The systemic reversal of fortune among Russian cities: an impact of natural resource endowments on inter-city gaps in average wage.
3. Antonio Accetturo (Bank of Italy, Italy): Political Selection in the skilled city.
12:00 – 13:30. Session F2
1. Aude Pommeret (IREGE Univerte de Savoie, France): Adaptation versus abatement investment under pollution irreversibility.
2. Alexandra Vinogradova (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): Optimum Mitigation Policy with Uncertain Climate Damage.
3. Stephane Zuber (CERSES – CNRS, France): Models-as-Usual for Unusual Risks? On the Value of Catastrophic Climate Change.
13:30 – 15:00. Lunch.
15:00 – 15:50. Keynote Lecture. Yves Zenou (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden): R&D networks: Theory, Empirics and Policy
Implications.
15:50 – 16:40. Keynote Lecture. Takatoshi Tabuchi (University of Tokyo, Japan): Production Technology, Migration Cost, and Economic Geography.
16:40 – 17:10. Coffee-break.
17:10 – 18:00. Keynote Lecture. Sergey Kokovin (HSE, Novosibirsk State University): Big firms among monopolistically competitive fringe and two-dimensional competition.
04 October, Friday
9:30 – 10:00. Morning coffee.
10:00 – 10:50. Keynote Lecture. Cees Withagen (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands): Green Paradoxes and the battle with oil exporters.
10:50 – 11:40. Keynote Lecture. Michael Hoel (University of Oslo, Norway): Incentives for environmental R&D.
11:40 – 12:10. Coffee-break.
12:10 – 13:00. Keynote Lecture. Geir Asheim (University of Oslo, Norway): Competitive intergenerational altruism.
13:00 – 13:50. Keynote Lecture. Rick van der Ploeg (Oxford University, UK): Climate Policy and Catastrophic Change: Be Prepared and Avert Risk.
14:00 – 15:30. Lunch.
15:30 – 16:20. Keynote Lecture. Carl Gaignes (INRA, France): The economic geography of food supply chain: Agglomeration economies vs. Environmental costs.
16:20 – 17:10. Keynote Lecture. Peter Neary (Oxford University, UK): Not So Demanding: Preference Structure, Firm Behavior, and Welfare.
19.00 – 22.00 Gala dinner.
05 October, Saturday
12-00 – Excursion Program