Allan Hsiao

So nice to see this in print! My paper on green trade policy, deforestation, and palm oil. 🌲🌳

Deforestation Deforestation is a major source of global carbon emissions, but efforts to curb deforestation rates have faced significant challenges. In this VoxDevLit, we synthesise recent economic research that at...

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Deforestation is out now!

Senior Editors @franciscocosta.bsky.social & @allanhsiao.bsky.social (@stanford.edu) review economic research on deforestation.

Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/de...

Climate politics: Understanding political inaction on climate change Despite strong public concern for climate change and pollution in Indonesia, politicians underestimate the demand for policy responses and fail to act – even when informed of voter preferences. Politi...

🆕 Climate politics: Understanding political inaction on climate change

Today on VoxDev, @allanhsiao.bsky.social (@stanford.edu) & @nickkuipers.bsky.social (Princeton) discuss the reasons politicians underestimate the demand for climate policy responses in Indonesia: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Thank you to the amazing @econimate.bsky.social for featuring our work! We study how governments use trade policy to deal with agricultural shocks. 🍞🌽🌾

Paper: allanhsiao.com/files/HMS_fo...

🚨 Call for papers:

Environment week at LSE will be Sept 22-25th.

Submissions are due soon (July 14)!

www.lse-environment-week.com/environment-...

Carbon border adjustment mechanism policies reduce emissions leakage, boost domestic competitiveness and encourage global carbon pricing — without disproportionately harming lower-income countries from @kclausing.bsky.social, Colmer, Hsiao and @cwolfram.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33723

🌎 PhD students: apply to 2025 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental/Energy Economics!

🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school

📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley

w @auffhammer.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack...

Here it is! The amazing "political economics of environmental sustainability" program, organized by Partha Dasgupta and yours truly.
You can apply to attend here:
www.gsb.stanford.edu/events/polit...

** Development econ job market candidates **

The devo group at Princeton is hiring 2 postdocs for 2025-26. Come spend the year with us before starting your faculty job.

Nina Buchmann, who deferred her postdoc w/ us until 2025-6, will also be here for the year.

www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....