Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/03/2025
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Nouri Najjar, Assistant Professor at Western University, will present to our economics graduate students and faculty on Friday, March 7 in KTH 334!

Nouri is an environmental, trade, and political economist. His research has received several awards, including the Canadian Economics Association’s 2022 Purvis Prize for a highly significant work in Canadian economic policy for “Environmental Regulations and the Cleanup of Manufacturing: Plant-Level Evidence” with Jevan Cherniwchan. He will present, “The Surprising Static and Dynamic Effects of Oil and Gas Flaring on Agriculture”.

Abstract

Energy producers frequently ?are and vent excess gas. We demonstrate that these emissions cause surprising static physiological and dynamic economic spillovers for proximate agricultural operations. Using confidential crop insurance data from Alberta, Canada and local projection estimation, we show that: i) ?aring and venting affect current-period productivity of cropland and ii) farmers respond to static productivity shocks by changing investment decisions in subsequent periods. These dynamics occur because of an unintended policy interaction: income tax rules alter farm investment incentives following a revenue shock. As a result, environmental shocks propagate to future farm operations even after the contemporaneous effect abates.

View Nouri’s professional website.