Energy and the Environment - The 32nd NBER-TCER-CEPR TRIO Conference

Tokyo, Japan, April 26th – 27th 2025

Few areas of economics are more relevant to current policy than energy and environmental economics. Climate change and other environmental issues are top priorities for national governments and multilateral organizations. And since energy use is the primary source of carbon emissions, addressing climate change requires a detailed understanding of often complex energy markets. 

The 32nd TRIO conference, jointly sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER), and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), will focus on energy and environmental economics.  The conference will be organized by Joshua Hausman (NBER), Kenichi Ueda (CEPR), and Shin-ichi Fukuda (TCER).  It will include roughly 6-8 paper presentations, and it will be held in Tokyo on Saturday-Sunday, April 26th – 27th, 2025. The conference will conclude by 12:30pm on Sunday April 27th, thus allowing participants to fly back to North America that day. 

The organizers welcome submissions in all areas of energy and environmental economics and on related topics. Both theoretical and empirical work will be considered, and the research need not be related to Japan.  Topics of particular interest include:

  • Climate change 
  • The economics of nuclear and renewable energy
  • Research that intersects with finance, corporate governance, public finance (e.g. financing of decarbonization investments) and international economics (e.g. carbon border adjustments). 
     

Submissions from researchers who are not affiliated with any of the sponsoring organizations are welcome, and we encourage submissions from members of groups that have been historically under-represented in the economics profession.

Papers presented at the conference may be submitted to a special issue of the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (JJIE), and authors are encouraged to consider this outlet for their work. If a paper is published in the JJIE, the author(s) will receive a total honorarium of JPY200,000, which can be divided among multiple authors.  Papers submitted to the JJIE will undergo the normal journal reviewing process. 

The deadline for submitting papers is 11:59pm, Boston time, on January 9th, 2025.  Upload Papers 


Preference will be given to completed papers and to detailed drafts. Selected authors will be notified by January 24th, 2025. The NBER will cover travel and hotel expenses for one North America-based author of each paper to attend the conference.  Other authors are welcome to attend at their own expense.  Workshop attendance is by invitation only. Please direct questions to Joshua Hausman (hausmanj@umich.edu).