Keynote Speakers
Anastasios
Xepapadeas
Cost–Benefit Analysis under Climate Change:
Fat Tails and Extreme Events
Anastasios Xepapadeas is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna and Professor Emeritus at the Athens University of Economics and Business, where he also served as Dean of the School of Economic Sciences. He is an International Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Bank of Greece coordinating committee for the study of climate change impacts in Greece. He is a past President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), and former Chair of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Environment and Development Economics, Co-Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and for Environmental and Resource Economics and is currently an Editor for Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). He has published more than 150 papers in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Science, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and PNAS, and is the author or editor of more than ten books. His research focuses on the economics of climate change, growth and sustainability, cost-benefit analysis, and ambiguity and robust control.
Anna
Alberini
The Benefits and Costs of Energy Assistance and Special Energy Pricing Programs
Anna Alberini received her PhD in economics from the University of California San Diego. She is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics at UMD. She currently teaches PhD-level econometrics and an undergraduate course on the economics of climate change, and supervises numerous graduate and undergraduate research projects. She is an energy economist and an environmental economist with a major focus on the economics of health and safety and non-market valuation. Her energy economics research focuses on residential energy demand, energy efficiency decisions and consequences of such decisions, policies targeted as shaping residential energy demand, and on vehicle fuel economy and driving decisions. Alberini is currently an editor of Energy Economics, a member of the Editorial Board of The Energy Journal, a member of the International Advisory Board of Energy Policy, and a former associate Editor of Energy Efficiency. She has served on the American Statistical Association's Advisory Committee to the US Energy Information Administration, and done two stints on the US EPA Science Advisory Board - Environmental Economics.