IESR Environmental Economics Seminar Series 由暨南大学经济与社会研究院生态文明与环境经济学研究中心举办。讲座系列邀请环境经济学学者分享相关领域内的最新研究。

题目: Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters: The Case of U.S. Wildfires

主讲人：Patrick Baylis，英属哥伦比亚大学

时间：2023年3月21日上午8:00 – 9:00（北京时间）

举办方式：线上讲座，扫描文末二维码即可报名

主讲人简介：

Patrick is an assistant professor and environmental economist at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He studies how people respond to environmental threats like climate change, air pollution, and wildfires. Some of his recent work includes estimating the impact of temperature on tweets to understand preferences for climate change, assessing the implicit subsidy of federal wildfire suppression, projecting how climate change will alter peak electricity demand, and considering how consumers respond to defaults in electricity consumption.

Abstract:

Despite escalating losses in climate-related disasters, adoption of protective technologies and behaviors is limited by risk misperception, externalities, and insurance market frictions. One response to these market failures is to mandate investment. We measure the effect of California's wildfire building codes on own and neighboring structure survival using data for nearly all US homes exposed to wildfires since 2000. Differences across jurisdictions and vintages reveal remarkable resilience effects of building codes. These codes also increase survival of neighboring homes by reducing structure-to-structure spread. Using the results, we develop and estimate a model of the social benefits of wildfire building standards.