Starting in March 2025, CEPR will be hosting the Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics, a long-standing virtual seminar with focus on the economics of climate change—including topics drawn from macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance, econometrics, and environmental economics. 

We convene on Zoom for a 50-minute talk and up to 25 minutes of discussion and Q&A.

Seminars will be at 11:00 EDT, 16:00 BST, 17:00 CEST. 

The series started in 2020 and presentation papers and slides are available for some past Seminars. Please contact Despoina Chatzilari [email protected] with queries for specific Seminars. 

Ben Collier, Temple University

Credit When You Need It

12 June 2025

Pari Sastry, Columbia Business School

Climate Risk and the U.S. Insurance Gap: Measurement, Drivers and Implications

15 May 2025

Lily Hsueh, Arizona State

Corporations at Climate Crossroads

17 April 2025

Ghassane Benmir, IE University

Green Asset Pricing

3 April 2025

Daryl Fairweather, Redfin

Expecting Climate Change: Evidence from a Nationwide Field Experiment in the Housing Market

20 March 2025

Catherine Wolfram, MIT Sloan

The Economics of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms for Lower Income Countries

January 16 2025

Philippe Aghion, INSEAD

Transition to Green Technology along the Supply Chain

December 19, 2024
 

Glenn Rudebusch, Brookings and NYU Stern

Green Stocks and Monetary Policy Shocks: Evidence from Europe

December 5, 2024
 

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets

November 21, 2024
 

Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim

Distributional Consequences of Climate Policies

November 7, 2024
 

Dirk Schoenmaker, Rotterdam School of Management

Impact of Climate Transition on Financial Stability

October 17, 2024
 

Adrien Bilal, Stanford University

The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global vs. Local Temperature

October 3, 2024
 

Valerie Ramey, University of California San Diego

How much will Global Warming cool Global Growth?

September 19, 2024
 

Stéphane Hallegatte, World Bank

Successful Economic Development in a Changing Climate: Lessons from 50 Country Climate and Development Reports

September 5, 2024
 

Sarah Armitage, Boston University

Innovation Market Failures and the Design of New Climate Policy Instruments

June 27, 2024
 

Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London

Carbon-Transition Risk and Net-Zero Portfolios

June 13, 2024
 

Theresa Kuchler, NYU Stern

Biodiversity Risk

May 30, 2024
 

Brian Prest, Resources for the Future

Equity and Risk in the Social Cost of Carbon: Evidence from GIVE

May 16, 2024
 

Harrison Hong, Columbia University

The Cost of Climate Policy to Capital: Evidence from Renewable Portfolio Standards

April 18, 2024
 

Francesca Diluiso, Bank of England

Climate Policies, Macroprudential Regulation, and the Welfare Cost of Business Cycles

April 4, 2024
 

Valentina Bosetti, Bocconi

Negative Emission Technologies and Climate Cooperation

March 21, 2024
 

Marco Del Negro, FRB New York

Is the Green Transition Inflationary?

February 29, 2024
 

Laura Starks, UT Austin

Climate Regulatory Risks and Corporate Bonds

February 15, 2024
 

Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia

An Empirical Test of the Green Paradox for Climate Legislation

February 1, 2024
 

Roger Gordon, UC San Diego

Carbon taxes: Many Strengths but Key Weaknesses

January 18, 2024

Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California

Adaptation in Financial Markets: Climate Risk Pooling in Mortgage-Backed Securities

December 14, 2023
 

Simon Scheidegger, HEC Lausanne Deep Uncertainty Quantification: With an Application to Integrated Assessment Models, with Aleksandra Friedl, Felix Kübler, and Takafumi Usui

November 30, 2023
 

Greg Casey, Williams College

The Macroeconomics of Clean Energy Subsidies

November 16, 2023
 

Joseph Aldy, Harvard

Private Benefits from Public Investment in Climate Adaptation and Resilience

November 9, 2023
 

Carolyn Kousky, Environmental Defense Fund Insurance and Climate Change

October 19, 2023
 

Roberto Rigobon, MIT

ESG Confusion and Stock Returns: Tackling the Problem of Noise

October 5, 2023
 

Brigitte Roth Tran, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Local Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters, with Daniel Wilson

September 21, 2023
 

Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University

Household Climate Finance: Theory and Survey Data on Safe and Risky Green Assets

September 7, 2023
 

Zacharias Sautner, Frankfurt School

Institutional Investors and the Fight against Climate Change

June 15, 2023
 

Tony Smith, Yale University

Climate Change around the World

June 1, 2023
 

Kevin Stiroh, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Climate Change and the Role of Regulatory Capital: A Stylized Framework for Policy Assessment

May 18, 2023
 

Jessica Green, University of Toronto

Does Carbon Pricing Reduce Emissions? A Review of Ex-Post Analyses

May 4, 2023
 

Bruno Conte, Universita di Bologna

On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes

April 20, 2023
 

Galina Hale, UC Santa Cruz

Climate Risks and Exchange Rates

April 6, 2023
 

Michael Bauer, University of Hamburg

Where is the Carbon Premium? Global Performance of Green and Brown Stocks

March 23, 2023
 

Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, University of Toronto

The Forest Awakens: Amazon Regeneration and Policy Spillover

March 9, 2023
 

Robert S. Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Averting and Adapting to Climate Change

February 23, 2023
 

Moritz Drupp, University of Hamburg

Pricing Carbon

February 9, 2023
 

Aurélien Saussay, London School of Economics

Who’s fit for the Low-Carbon Transition? Emerging Skills and Wage Gaps in Job Ad Data

January 19, 2023

Tatyana Deryugina, Gies College of Business

Natural Disasters and Municipal Bonds

December 15, 2022
 

Meredith Fowlie, UC Berkeley

Who Will Pay for the Energy Transition?: Affordability, Efficiency, and Energy Price Regulation

December 1, 2022
 

Jim Bushnell, UC Davis

Can Time Series Methods Save Energy Policy Models from Themselves?

November 17, 2022
 

Gib Metcalf, Tufts

The Macroeconomic Effects of a Carbon Tax to Meet the U.S. Paris Agreement Target: The Role of Firm Creation and Technology Adoption

November 3, 2022
 

Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona

Informationally Efficient Climate Policy: Designing Markets to Measure and Price Externalities

October 20, 2022
 

Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University

Minimax-Regret Climate Policy with Deep Uncertainty in Climate Modeling and Intergenerational Discounting

October 6, 2022
 

Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics

Climate-change pledges, actions and outcomes

September 22, 2022
 

Stefano Giglio, Yale School of Management

A Quantity-based Approach to Constructing Climate Risk Hedge Portfolios

September 8, 2022
 

Jesús Gonzalo, U. Carlos III Madrid

Climate Change Heterogeneity: A New Quantitative Approach

July 7, 2022
 

Victoria Xie, Santa Clara University

Expecting Floods: Firm Entry, Employment, and Aggregate Implications

June 16, 2022
 

Diego Känzig, London Business School

The Unequal Economic Consequences of Carbon Pricing

June 2, 2022
 

Eva Steiner, Pennsylvania State University

Climate Change and Commercial Real Estate: Evidence from Hurricane Sandy

May 19, 2022
 

Warwick J. McKibbin, Australian National University

Global Economic Impacts of Climate Shocks, Climate Policy and Changes in Climate Risk Assessment

May 5, 2022
 

Katherine Wagner, UC Berkeley

Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing (with Jonathan T. Hawkins-Peirot)

April 21, 2022
 

Ralf Martin, Imperial College of London

Managerial and Financial Barriers During the Green Transition

April 7, 2022
 

Jean-Paul Renne, HEC Lausanne

Climate Linkers: Rationale and Pricing

March 24, 2022
 

Christian Gollier, Toulouse School of Economics

The Cost-Efficiency Carbon Pricing Puzzle

March 10, 2022
 

Sumudu Watugala, Cornell University

Banking on Carbon: Corporate Lending and Cap and Trade Policy

February 24, 2022
 

Toan Phan, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Evidence and Theory

February 10, 2022
 

Sir David Hendry, University of Oxford

Can the UK Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050?

January 13, 2022

Ben Groom, London School of Economics

The Social Value of Offsets

December 16, 2021
 

Paige Weber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dynamic Responses to Carbon Pricing in the Electricity Sector

December 2, 2021
 

Felix Pretis, University of Victoria

What Reduces Road CO2 Emissions? Policy Attribution Using Break Detection

November 18, 2021
 

Nancy Wallace, University of California at Berkeley

Mortgage Markets with Climate-Change Risk: Evidence from Wildfires in California

November 4, 2021
 

Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg School of Economics and Management

Climate, Technology, Family Size: On the Crossroad between Two Ultimate Externalities

October 21, 2021
 

Mar Reguant, Northwestern University, Department of Economics

Climate Change: A Report

October 7, 2021
 

Thomas Stoerk, LSE

Economic Impacts of Tipping Points in the Climate System

September 23, 2021
 

Kyle Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara

Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate

September 9, 2021
 

Bård Harstad, University of Oslo

Pledge-and-Review Bargaining: From Kyoto to Paris

August 19, 2021
 

Ivan Rudik, Cornell University

Climate Contagion: Heterogeneity and Market Adaptation to Climate Change in Dynamic-Spatial Equilibrium

July 29, 2021
 

Tamma Carleton, University of California, Santa Barbara

A Data-Driven Approach to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon

July 15, 2021
 

Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago

Central Banking Challenges Posed by Uncertain Climate Change and Natural Disasters

June 10, 2021
 

Neng Wang, Columbia Business School

Welfare Consequences of Sustainable Finance

May 27, 2021
 

Frances Moore, University of California at Davis

Use and Non-use Value of Nature and the Social Cost of Carbon

May 13, 2021
 

Larry Karp, University of California, Berkeley

Asset Prices as an Incentive for Climate Policy

April 29, 2021
 

Carolyn Fischer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Business Cycles and Environmental Policy

April 15, 2021
 

Ishan Nath, University of Chicago

The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change

April 1, 2021
 

Gernot Wagner, New York University

Carbon Prices, Preferences, and the Timing of Uncertainty

March 18, 2021
 

Robert Engle, NYU Stern

Climate Risk and the Pandemic

March 4, 2021
 

Christian Traeger, University of Oslo

Uncertainty and climate change

February 18, 2021
 

Irene Monasterolo, Vienna University of Economics and Business

The Climate Spread of Corporate and Sovereign Bonds

January 28, 2021
 

Marshall Burke, Stanford University

Climate, Wildfire, and Air Pollution

January 14, 2021

Patrick Bolton, Columbia University

Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk

December 17, 2020
 

Stephie Fried, Arizona State University

Seawalls and Stilts: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation

December 3, 2020
 

Solomon Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley

Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change

November 12, 2020
 

Richard Tol, University of Sussex

The Economic Impact of Weather and Climate

October 22, 2020
 

Per Krusell, Stockholm University

Suboptimal Climate Policy

October 8, 2020
 

Lint Barrage, University of California at Santa Barbara

The Fiscal Costs of Climate Change in the United States

September 24, 2020
 

Rick Van der Ploeg, University of Oxford

Climate Policy and Asset Diversification

September 17, 2020
 

Esteban A. Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University

The Economic Geography of Global Warming

September 3, 2020
 

Laura Bakkensen, University of Arizona

Sorting Over Flood Risk and Implications for Policy Reform

August 13, 2020
 

Simon Dietz, London School of Economics

Are Economists Getting Climate Dynamics Right and Does It Matter?

July 30, 2020
 

James H. Stock, Harvard University The Macroeconomic Impact of Europe’s Carbon Taxes

July 16, 2020