Recently the President ordered that coal generators don’t need to comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS). My forthcoming JPE paper with @GGowrisankaran and Wendan Zhang on uncertainty surrounding MATS. Time for a thread! https://t.co/i2UeQ1iqul
Resolving uncertainty later leads generators on the exit margin to be more likely to exit! Our point is subtle: this is about delaying uncertainty resolution holding
enforcement probability constant. Yet increasing coal exit might not be the current administration’s objective!
This posting is coming late in the process, but we’d appreciate your help circulating it broadly. The Department of Geography and Environment has a fantastic and growing team of faculty and students engaged in environmental economics and policy research and teaching.
A couple of years ago a couple of friends and I made a "partial equilibrium" public good guide for new econ students who might want to become a Research Assistant. We no longer have the ability to maintain and update it to account for new information, so ... [1/n]
Pre-doc job announcement! @HarvardSalata is hiring fellows to work with Anna Russo, Wolfram Schlenker, @ctaylor463, and myself on environmental economics! Application review will begin on 10/31 and continue on a rolling basis. Please apply and share! https://t.co/GJEr8qqfjA
Job market candidates: a quick thread on how the econ market works, incl. at business schools. 1) It is not unusual to get many 100s of applications. Nobody reads them all first-pass. Most places take a quick glance at letter/cv/intro, and keep the top x%.
Don’t miss our LinkedIn Live with @MathematicaNow on 9/26 @ 1pm ET! Our panelists will be diving into how to build a career in #Economics, #PublicPolicy, and #DataScience. Register here: https://t.co/eGvBiMVxRq