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CHAIRPERSON

Dr Rita Padawangi, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

ABSTRACT

Any environmental regulation affects the distribution of economic benefits and costs. Disentangling who wins or loses is complicated because regulations affect environmental quality, human health, product prices, input prices and land values. Economists have studied the efficiency characteristics of alternative regulatory approaches, and recent research has addressed how regulations affect different groups. In this talk, I will highlight some of these impacts, including how regulations affect renters versus landowners; how market-based regulations affect different individuals and firms; how tolls and congestion pricing may affect urban versus suburban communities and urban air pollution; and how energy subsidies in SE Asia have distributional impacts through factor and product markets.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Corbett Grainger is an Assistant Professor in the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department at University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he is also a faculty affiliate at SAGE in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His research interests are primarily in the area of environmental and natural resource economics, with an emphasis on the distributional effects of regulations, property rights and institutions. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Environmental Economics, and has published in top economics journals including Journal of Public Economics and Journal of Law and Economics. He earned his PhD in Economics from University of California, Santa Barbara.

REGISTRATION

Admission is free. We would greatly appreciate if you RSVP Mr Jonathan Lee via email: jonathan.lee@nus.edu.sg