Viehe Lecture Series
Speaker: Ivan Rudik
Title: What Do We Know About the Economics of Climate Impacts and Adaptation?
Abstract: Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century. Communities around the world are experiencing its impacts through multiple pathways, from changing agricultural productivity, to infrastructure damage and mortality from wildfires and tropical cyclones. These impacts don't occur in a vacuum, they trigger a set of adaptation responses such as adoption of drought-tolerant crop varieties, investments in infrastructure hardening, and migration. Dr. Rudik will overview the current frontier in economics examining the impacts of climate change, the efficacy of different adaptation mechanisms, and the role of institutions in managing risk such as insurance programs and financial markets.
Speaker's Bio: Dr. Ivan Rudik is an associate professor of applied economics and management at Cornell University's Charles H. Dyson School, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research network affiliate at CESifo. He served as the chief environmental economist at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Biden administration, where he led work to connect economic analyses with environmental decision-making. Dr. Rudik has published in the top economics journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics. Dr. Rudik received his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Arizona and his B.S. in economics at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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