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Environmental and transportation issues in urban environments
On September 21 and September 22, the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy will host a two-day conference on environmental and transportation issues in urban environments. Academics from China and abroad will present papers on air travel, electric vehicles, the automobile market, and transportation policies. Clifford Winston, the Searle Freedom Trust Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Economic Studies program will moderate the discussion. Distinguished economists from applied microeconomics will attend the conference and comment on papers presented.
Agenda
Environment-enhanced momentum
Haoming Liu
Associate Professor - Department of Economics, National University of Singapore
Alberto Salvo
Associate Professor - Department of Economics, National University of Singapore
Adoption of electric vehicles: Manufactures’ incentives and public policy
Jing Shao
Associate Professor - University of International Business and Economics
Hangjun Yang
Professor - Department of Transport Economics and Logistics, School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics
Anming Zhang
Professor - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Negotiating a housing deal on a polluted day: Consequences and possible explanations
Flights to safety: Evidence of Chinese residents fleeing air pollution via air travels
Shuai Chen
Researcher - School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University
Jie-Sheng Tan Soo
Assistant Professor - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Supply, demand, and the effects of government policy in the Chinese automobile market
A random coefficients mixed oligopolistic differentiated products model
Yuan Chen
Ph.D. student - Transportation Technology and Policy, University of California at Davis
C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell
Associate Professor - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
Subway boom in China: Does it reduce congestion?
Yizhen Gu
Assistant Professor - Institute for Economic and Social Research, Jinan University
Transportation policies and equilibrium sorting: Evidence from Beijing
Andrew Waxman
Assistant Professor - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Jing Wu
Head and Associate Professor - Department of Construction Management, Tsinghua University
Acting Director - Hang Lung Center for Real Estate, Tsinghua University
Final comments and close of conference
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