KEYNOTE LECTURES

Gilbert Metcalf
He is Professor of Economics at Tufts University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Metcalf received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. His primary research area is applied Public Finance with particular interests in taxation and investment, tax incidence, energy and environmental economics. He has published papers in numerous academic journals, has edited two books, and has contributed chapters to several books on tax policy. He has served as a consultant to various organizations including the Chinese Ministry of Finance and the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Agnar Sandmo
He is Emeritus Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Sandmo has made important research contributions on Public Economics, Economics of Uncertainty and Environmental Economics. His papers on environmental taxes in the 1970s led to important advances in the field and to its popularization after decades of scarce interest in these instruments. He has published in the main academic journals of economics, including American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Public Economics and Economic Journal.

INVITED PAPERS

Michael Hanemann
He is Chancellor's Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the Goldman School of Public Policy of the University of California. Hanemann’s research interests include non-market valuation, environmental economics and policy, water pricing and management, demand modeling for market research and policy design, the economics of irreversibility and adaptive management, and welfare economics. His work has appeared in leading scientific journals like American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and elsewhere.

Juan Pablo Montero
He is Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, PUC Chile. He conducts research on applied microeconomics, industrial organisation and environmental economics. He worked on various topics of climate change policies, including tradeable permits with market power and incomplete monitoring, robustness of allowance banking in the US acid rain program, and analysis of permits, standards and technological innovation. He has advised the Government of Chile such as Ministry of the Economy, the National Commission for the Environment and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and international organizations such as the World Bank.