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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 18h

You can find her on the web at buff.ly/nvmwywI

Register for the SBCA 2025 European Conference at buff.ly/3gTxH3w

Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 18h

She has served on the American Statistical Association - ASA's Advisory Committee to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and done two stints on the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board - Environmental Economics.

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 18h

Alberini is currently an editor of Energy Economics, a member of the Editorial Board of The Energy Journal, a member of the International Advisory Board of Energy Policy, and a former associate Editor of Energy Efficiency.

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 18h

Her energy economics research focuses on residential energy demand, energy efficiency decisions and consequences of such decisions, policies targeted as shaping residential energy demand, and on vehicle fuel economy and driving decisions.

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 18h

She is an energy economist and an environmental economist with a major focus on the economics of health and safety and non-market valuation.

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 18h

She is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics at University of Maryland.

She currently teaches PhD-level econometrics and an undergraduate course on the economics of climate change, and supervises numerous graduate and undergraduate research projects.

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 18h

Meet our keynote speaker: Anna Alberini will be speaking about The Benefits and Costs of Energy Assistance and Special Energy Pricing Programs

Professor Alberini received her PhD in economics from UC San Diego.

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 3d

Come hear from Mark Budolfson (The University of Texas at Austin), Nicolas Treich (Toulouse School of Economics), Monica Saavoss (USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service), Jonathan McFadden (USDA Economic Research Service), Bob Fisher (Texas State University), and Romain Espinosa (CNRS).

Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 3d

Less than one week until our workshop on Animal Welfare and Benefit Cost Analysis!

Register at buff.ly/G9q0Tk2

Society for Benefit Cost Analysis

Call for Proposals: Regulatory Approaches to Emerging Technology (Deadline: September 18, 2025)

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 5d

His research focuses on the economics of climate change, growth and sustainability, cost-benefit analysis, and ambiguity and robust control.

Find him on the web at buff.ly/A1F4iyj

Register for the SBCA 2025 European Conference at buff.ly/3gTxH3w

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 5d

He has published more than 150 papers in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Science, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and PNAS, and is the author or editor of more than ten books.

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 5d

He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Environment and Development Economics, Co-Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and for Environmental and Resource Economics and is currently an Editor for Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 5d

He is a past President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), and former Chair of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 5d

He is an International Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Bank of Greece coordinating committee for the study of climate change impacts in Greece.

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 5d

Professor Xepapadeas is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna) and Professor Emeritus at the Athens University of Economics and Business, where he also served as Dean of the School of Economic Sciences.

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 5d

Meet our first keynote speaker: Anastasios Xepapadeas

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 7d

The Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) will host the conference through its Research Laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability (ReSEES).

For more information, please visit the official Conference webpage (buff.ly/2JVRLmR).

Register today! buff.ly/JLX6xcQ

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 7d

We are excited about hosting the 2025 European Conference of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCAEC2025), scheduled for November 27-28, 2025, in Athens, Greece.

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 7d

Register Today for the SBCA 2025 European Conference!

The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCA) is an international group of practitioners, academics, and others who are working to improve the theory and application of the tools of benefit-cost analysis (BCA).

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 10d

For more details, including guidelines and session formats, visit our Call for Abstracts page (buff.ly/cIbConM).

We look forward to your contribution at the SBCA 2026 Annual Conference!

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 10d

Less Than Two Weeks Left! Submit Your Abstract for SBCA 2026 Annual Conference by October 15

Conference Dates: March 12–13, 2026

Location: George Washington University Student Center, Washington, D.C.

Get Started: Submit Your Abstract Now At buff.ly/0UOfDdw

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 12d

Sharing some more presentations at hashtag#2025APPAM that are BCA-related:

Thursday, November 13, 10:15 to 11:45am

A Cat-and-Mouse Game at Sea: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the EU ETS on Maritime Shipping

Hao He and Haoqi Qian, Fudan University

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 14d

Join this free, online panel moderated by Shardul Agrawala, Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division in the OECD - OCDE Environment Directorate.

Oct 1 | Online | 9-10am ET | Free

Register at buff.ly/nD3RAmj

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 16d

Apologies, here are the two links again:

Submit your abstract: sbca.mymeetingsavvy.net/login
Call for abstracts: www.benefitcostanalysis.org/annual-confe...

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 16d

Highlighting some more BCA-related presentations at hashtag#2025APPAM:

Broadening Family Education and Income Policy through a Long-Term Research-Practice Partnership in Two-Generation Approaches

Teresa Eckrich Sommer

Thursday, November 13, 3:30 to 5:00pm

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