Past Colloquia

WINTER  2011 Schedule / Back to Colloquium

Date	Speaker	Topic Click on Papers to Download (PDFs)
JAN 31	Toni Sipic University of Oregon	“Profiting from Regulation: An Event Study of the European Carbon Market.”
FEB 3	Laura Grant University of California, Santa Barbara	“Intermittent Supply and Electricity Demand: Evidence from Colombia.”
FEB 7	Arnab Mitra University of California, Merced	“Intermittent Supply and Electricity Demand: Evidence from Colombia.”
FEB 14	Catalin Ratiu John Molson School of Business / Concordia University	“Urban-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories: What goes in and what stays out?”
FEB 21	Marlene le Ber Richard Ivey School of Business	Value Frame Fusion in Cross Sector Interactions“
MAR 7	Shelie Miller SNRE	“Beyond Carbon:  Assessing the Impacts of an Emerging Bioenergy Industry”  Abstract
MAR 21	Cary Coglianese UPenn Law	Performance Track’s Postmortem: Lessons from EPA’s ‘Flagship’ Voluntary Program”
APR 4	Matt Kotchen Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies	“Environmental Offsets and Corporate Social Responsibility for Irresponsibility?” Working paper, pdf
APR  18	Aseem Prakash University of Washington Norm Bishara, Discussant	“Signaling Environmental Stewardship in Corrupt Societies:  The Case of ISO 14001″ Abstract

FALL 2010 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Discussant	Topic Click on Papers to Download (PDFs)
September 13	Ashley Langer, U-M Ford School .	Dr. Shaun McRae, U-M Department of Economics	Automakers’ Short-Run Responses to Changing Gasoline Prices and the Implications for Energy Policy (pdf)
September 28*	Jim Bushnell, Iowa State *co-sponsored with with U-M Department of Economics.	No Discussant	“Profiting from Regulation: An Event Study of the European Carbon Market.”
October 11	Shaun McRae, U-M Economics/Energy *co-sponsored with with U-M Department of Economics.	Dr. Ashley Langer	“Intermittent Supply and Electricity Demand: Evidence from Colombia.”
October 25	Josh Newell, U-M	Ming Xu, U-M	“Urban-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories: What goes in and what stays out?”
November 8*	Richard Schmalensee, MIT *co-sponsored with with U-M Department of Economics	No Discussant	“Evaluating Policies to Increase the use of Renewable Energy.”
November 22	Ming Xu, U-M	Josh Newell, U-M	“Infrastructure Ecology for Sustainable and Resilient Urban Systems.”
December 6	Jane Dutton, U-M Ross	No Discussant	“It’s not easy being green: The role of doubting and affirming the self in explaining issue advocacy behavior.”
December 13	Marina Whitman, U-M Ford School and Ross School of Business	No Discussant	“Global Corporate Social Responsibility.”

WINTER 2010 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Discussant	Topic Click on Papers to Download (PDFs)
January 11	David Uhlmann, UM Law School	Dr. Jay Shimshack, Erb Visiting Scholar & Professor of Environmental Economics at Tulane.	“Environmental Crime Comes of Age” (Pre-publication draft) Or Read the Published paper (after January 2010)
January18 (Erb Post-doc candidate)	Sara Soderstrom, PhD candidate at Kellogg School of Management in Management and Organizations.	No Discussant	The Evolution of corporate Sustainability Agendas: An Interaction Ritual Perspective
January 25	Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Sorbonne/ PSE	Maggie Levenstein	“Green leader or green liar ? Differentiation and the role of NGO”
February 1	Sam Dastrup, PhD candidate in economics at UC, San Diego	No Discussant	“Sustainability and Real Estate: Solar Panels in San Diego; Housing Price Declines Across the US” Read the Abstract (pdf)
February 4 (Thursday)	Grant Jacobson, PhD candidate in economics at UC, Santa Barbara	No Discussant	“The Al Gore Effect: An Inconvenient Truth and Voluntary Carbon Offsets”
February 8	Aditi Sengupta, PhD candidate in economics at Southern Methodist University	No Discussant	“Signaling environmental quality to green consumers and the incentive to invest in cleaner technology: effect of environmental regulation.” (pdf) Read the Research Paper (pdf)
March 8	Matt Kahn, UCLA	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
March 29	Catherine Wolfram, UC Berkeley	Lutz Killian, UM Economics	“Cursed Resources? Political Conditions and Oil Market Volatility.” (pdf)
April 12	John DeCicco, UM	Marty Zimmerman, Ross	“Vehicle Standards in a Climate Policy Framework.” (pdf)
April 26	Gloria Helfand, Office of Transportation & Air Quality, EPA and Adjunct SNRE Associate Professor	John DeCicco, UM	Benefits, Costs, and EPA/NHTSA’s Light Duty Greenhouse Gas-Fuel Economy Rule. (pdf)

FALL 2009 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Discussant	Topic Click on Papers to Download (PDFs)
September 14	Victoria Johnson - Organizational Studies Program, UM	Robert Grese – SNRE & Nichols Arboretum, UM	“Organizational Place and Organizational Identity: The New York Botanical Garden in the City of New York.” (pdf)
September 21	Xiaoli Zhao – North China Electric Power University, Beijing & Erb Institute Visiting Scholar	Minyuan Zhao, Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Ross School of Business	“Why did China’s Energy Intensity Increase during 1998-2006: Decomposition and Policy Analysis.” (pdf)
October 5	Mark Milstein, Johnson Graduate School of Management,Cornell	Dr. Michael Jensen, Associate Professor of Strategy at Ross	“Framing Business & Sustainability for Research & Practice.”
October 19	Robert Klassen - Ivey Business School, Western Ontario	Ryan Kellogg, Assistant Professor of Economics, UM	“Environmental Management Expenditures:Assessing the Financial Returns from Structural and Infrastructural Investments.” (pdf)
November 2	Steve Salant, Economics, UM and Neslihan Uler, Research Center for Group Dynamics, UM	Margaret Jane Radin, Henry King Ransom Professor of Law, UM	“The Partnership Solution to the Common Property Problem: Theory and Experimental Evidence”
November 16	Jay Shimshack, Erb Visiting Scholar and Tulane University Economist	David Hess, Ross /Assistant Professor of Business Law.	“Recidivism, Enforcement, and Environmental Compliance”
November 30	Nigel Melville, Ross/ Business Information Technology.	Ravi Anupindi, Ross/ Associate Professor of Operations Management,	“Information Systems Innovation for Environmental Sustainability: A Framework for Research and Practice.” Read the Abstract. (doc)
December 14	Allen Blackman, Resources for the Future	Bill Lanen, Professor of Accounting at the Ross School of Business.	“ISO-14001 Certification in Mexico: Drivers and Impacts”

WINTER 2009 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic Click on Papers to Download (PDFs)
January 12	Geoffrey Heal, Columbia	“The Economics of Climate Change: A Post-Stern Perspective.”
January 26	Erb Post Doc Candidate, Katrina Jessoe	“Improved Source, Improved Quality? Estimating Water Quality Gains from Groundwater Expansion in Rural India.” (Abstract)
February 2	Erb Post-Doc Candidate, Josh Ault	“The Transfer of Business Models within Low-income Markets: Institutions and the Global Growth of Microfinance.” (Bio & Abstract) AND Comparative Institutional Advantages at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Explaining Cross-National Differences in the Growth of Commercial Microfinance(pdf) View Presentation Slides (pptx)
CANCELLED February 9	CANCELLED Erb Post-Doc Candidate, Molly Lipscomb	“The Effect of Environmental Enforcement on Product Choice and Competition: Theory and Evidence from India.” (Abstract)
February 16	Ryan Kellogg, UM	“Clearing the Air? The Effect of Gasoline Content Regulation on Urban Air Quality.” (pdf)
March 16	Mary Gallagher, UM	“Legislating Harmony?  New Trends in Chinese Labor Legislation and Enforcement”(pdf) Tables Document(pdf)
March 30	John Maxwell, University of Western Ontario	“Uncertain Standards.”(pdf)
April 13	Meredith Fowlie, UM	“Allocating Emissions Permits: Theory and (Preliminary) Evidence.” (Abstract)
April 20	Alex Pfaff, Duke University	“Road Impacts on Amazon Deforestation.” (pdf)

FALL 2008 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic Click on Papers to Download (PDFs)
September 22	Jennifer Howard-Grenville	“The Emergence and Diffusion of Interorganizational Environmental Collaborations: Industrial Symbiosis in the UK”
October 6	Tom Lyon, Ross School	“Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environment: A Theoretical Perspective”
CANCELLED November 3	CANCELLED Maurizio Zollo,Universitả Bocconi in Milan	“Understanding Corporate Responsibility: Theory and Evidence from the RESPONSE Program” Background reading: “The Psychological Antecedents of Socially Responsible Behavior” (PDF) and Understanding and Responding to Societal Demands on Corporate Responsibility (RESPONSE) PDF
November 17	Katie DeCelles, Erb Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	“Purposes of prison: How individuals interpret multiple institutional pressures.
December 8	Christian Seelos, IESE Business School, Barcelona	“Business models in the context of deep poverty – social entrepreneurship and corporate strategies” Published 2007(pdf) and Working Paper (pdf).

WINTER 2008 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic Click on Papers to Download (PDFs)
January 21	David Popp, Syracuse University	“Trade, Technology and the Environment: Why Do Poorer Countries Regulate Sooner?”
February 4	Arthur Lupia, Center for Political Studies / Institute for Social Research	“Closing the Gap: Possibilities and Impossibilities for Converting Climate Science to Mass Action.”
March 3	Chunbo Ma, Erb Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	“Dirty Industries and Pollution Havens: Evidence from China.”
March 17	Michael Toffel,  Harvard University	“Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Information Disclosure”
March 31	Tima Bansal,  Richard Ivey School of Business / University of Western Ontario	“Revisiting the relationship among the three pillars of business sustainability”
April 21	Stuart Hart, Visiting Fellow / Cornell University	“Beyond Selling to the Poor: Building Business Intimacy Through Embedded Innovation”