Program 2025 Nordic Annual Environmental and Resource Economics (NAERE) Workshop

Program NAERE 2025

 

Day 1 - June 25, 2025

 

8:30-9:00 – Welcome coffee & Registration

 

9:00-9:10 – Welcome address

 

9:15-10:45 – Parallel session 1

 

Energy markets

• Guillaume Wald, Mines Paris - PSL – The end of gas? Firm and worker strategies in the energy transition, 
• Nandeeta Neerunjun, University of Grenoble – Optimal electricity consumption and storage under short-term renewable supply variability
• Isabel Hovdahl, Norwegian School of Economics – European market integration and price convergence: a quantile regression analysis of NordLink
• Lassi Ahlvik, University of Helsinki – Household-level responses to European Energy Crisis

Modeling and simulation

• Tim Lüdiger, University of Bayreuth – Directed technical change in a multiregional climate-economy trade model
• Francesco Clora, University of Copenhagen – Mitigating carbon leakage: a comparative analysis of EU ETS free allowances phase-out strategies
• Olli-Pekka Kuusela, UNU-WIDER – Dynamic land use, agricultural productivity growth, and forest conservation policy design
• Jesper S. Schou, The Danish Council on Climate Change – Estimating shadow prices of climate policies in the Danish agricultural sector

Behavioral economics I

• Jana Eßer, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research – The behavioral effects of carbon pricing: experimental evidence on fuel consumption
• Katrin Schmelz & Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Insitute – Sustainable climate policies: new evidence and design approaches
• Christina Gravert, University of Copenhagen  – Why attention alone fails: experimental evidence on consumer inertia in liberalized markets

10:45-11:10 – Break

 

11:15-12:25 – Parallel Session 2

 

Agriculture

• Kahsay Haile Zemo, University of Copenhagen  – Beliefs about CO2e tax impact on agriculture and acceptance of climate policies and measures: a randomized survey experiment
• Pablo Ratti, Aarhus University – Mixing farm and farmer policy-relevant typologies to tailor agri-environmental schemes
• Sanna Lötjönen, University of Helsinki – The economics of carbon farming: theory and empirical applications to boreal agriculture

Policy effectiveness

• Michela Limardi, University of Lille – Climate regulation and civil society activism
• Erik Johannesen Bakke, The Arctic University of Norway – The Norwegian traffic light system’s impact on non-point source pollution
• Nicole Wägner, Norwegian School of Economics – The impact of ferry electrification on air quality

Environmental policy design

• Huu-Luat Do,The Arctic University of Norway  – Refundable deposits and the adoption of biodegradable fishing gear: an experimental investigation
• Antonin Beringhs, University of Lausanne and School of Engineering and Management – Exploring Swiss homeowners’ renovation decisions: a latent class analysis approach to inform policy
• Annukka Lipponen, University of Helsinki – Economic incentives for implementing water protection measures in peatland forestry: insights from views of private forest owners

Pollution management

• Tim de Kruiff, University of Copenhagen – Balancing agriculture and nature: valuing rewilding in the Dutch cultural river landscape
• Janne Jääskeläinen, University of Helsinki – Economics of bio-CO2 capture in the pulp mill
• Mette Asmild, University of Copenhagen  – Mastering the ripple effect: regulation of multiple interacting externalities

12:25-13:25 – Lunch

 

13:30-15:00 – Parallel session 3

 

Sustainable finance

• Régis Gourdel, University of Geneva – Credit and climate sentiments: the decarbonization frontier of risk pricing
• Yiding Ma, Technical University of Denmark – Investment incentives and financial strategies in utilities: evidence from Renewable Portfolio Standards in the United States
• Freja Hein Svendsen, The Secretariat of the Danish Economic Councils – The greener, the better? Subsidising private R&D in Denmark
• Julien Daubanes, Technical University of Denmark – How does the cost of capital affect oil supply

Natural disasters

• Alessandro Bellocchi, University Carlo Bo of Urbino – Floods, public budgets and fiscal resilience: evidence from Italian municipalities
• Amanda Tomasdotter, Mid Sweden University – Snow avalanche economics: balancing risky choices under inconsistency
• Ana Marija Filipas, University of Rijeka – Evaluating the effects of earthquakes on economic performance in European NUTS-3 regions: a causal inference approach using MMI-based exposure
• Emma Houmøller Veng, Technical University of Denmark – Coastal flooding and residential properties’ days on market

Transport

• Xiaobing Zhang, Technical University of Denmark  – Are consumers undervaluing the energy costs of electric vehicles? Evidence from four Nordic countries
• Arttu Ahonen, Aalto University – Drivers of habit: evidence of persistence from car inspections and neighborhood moves
• Anna Sahari, VATT Institute for Economic Research – Gasoline prices, physical activity and the optimal gasoline tax 

 

15:00-15:25 – Break

 

15:30-16:30 – Keynote lecture: Lasse Heje Pedersen - Can Climate Finance Save the Climate?

 

17:00- Bus transfer from DTU to social event

18:00- Social event and workshop dinner

 

Day 2 - June 26, 2025

 

Before 9:15 – Coffee

 

9:15-10:00 – Parallel session 4

 

Firms responses

• Fábio Bentz Maciel, The Vrije University Amsterdam – Do local content requirements promote industrialization? Evidence from the Brazilian oil industry
• Tuomas Kaariaho, University of Helsinki – Firm-level responses to the European Energy Crisis

Inter-generational issues

• Camille Hainnaux, University of Helsinki – Reverse education and endogenous green preferences in environmental policies
• Frikk Nesje, University of Copenhagen – Does axiological longtermism require deontic shorttermism?

10:00-10:25 – Break

 

10:30-12:00 – Parallel session 5

 

Behavioral economics II

• Juliane Koch, Lund University – A good neighbor - a found treasure: on the voluntary public good provision in overlapping neighborhoods
• David Bilén, Norwegian School of Economics – Climate impact knowledge and consumer behavior
• Anna Maier, University of Augsburg – The effect of opposing action spaces on group cooperation
• Marcella Veronesi, Technical University of Denmark – Climate change in the classroom

Energy demand

• Giacomo Lai, University of Cagliari – A choice experiment study to assess social benefits from citizens’ proactive participation in Renewable Energy Communities
• Daniel Riegels, University of Copenhagen – Changing minds, not habits: the limits of informational interventions for peak load shifting
• Erik Gråd, Anthesis AB – Realtor forecasting accuracy on homebuyer preferences for energy efficiency
• Jacob Ladenburg, Technical University of Denmark – From willingness to warmth: end-user payments to district heating

 

Biodiversity

• Aino Assmuth, Natural Resources Institute Finland – Biodiversity implications of forest carbon payments
• Julian R. Massenberg, Aarhus University – Between wildness and willingness: exploring the influence of deliberation on public preferences and willingness to pay for rewilding
• Sturla Kvamsdal, Norwegian School of Economics  – Invasive crabs in a random forest - a study of prices for crabs from the Barents Sea
• Pricscilla Creppy, Norwegian University of Life Sciences – Framing effects in biodiversity valuation: a meta-analysis of stated preference studies the last 25 years

12:00-12:55 – Lunch

 

13:00-14:30 – Parallel session 6

 

Resource exploitation

• Erik Katovich, University of Connecticut – Local and multinational comparative advantage in the global mining industry
• Léo Jean, Paris School of Economics  – The long-term cost of delaying carbon taxation in the oil sector
• Pauli Lappi, University of Helsinki – Licensing resource exploitation with endogenous reserves and asymmetric information
• Elena Paltseva, Stockholm School of Economics  – The geoeconomics of contract enforcement: coercion or backloading

Climate effects

• Francois Cohen, University of Barcelona – Long-term environmental damage: evidence from European wildfires
• Julieth Saenz-Molina, Fordham University – Hotter days and intimate partner violence in Bolivia
• Roger H. von Haefen, North Carolina State University – The welfare effects of air pollution on outdoor recreation: an application to shoreline fishing along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts
• Philippe Bontems, INRAE SBFC – Exporters’ behaviour in the face of climate volatility

Information provision

• Pricscilla Creppy, Norwegian University of Life Sciences – A Three-Layered Heckman Model for Double-Bounded Dichotomous Choice CV: Evidence from Carbon Capture Studies with information experiments
• Felix Kotulla, University of Augsburg – The behavioural economics of early warning signals
• Tatiana Ferrari, Technical University of Denmark – Toward resilient and low-carbon cities: a qualitative study on the use of climate services in Europe
• Enrico Longo, University of Hamburg – The effect of climate news on climate policy support

14:30 – Goodbye coffee