Steven Shwiff, Maryfrances Miller, Lirong Liu, Stephanie Shwiff – Economic Impact of a Potential Epidemic Shock to our Food Supply Chain
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a highly contagious viral disease that affects cows, pigs, and other cloven-hoofed animals, poses potential economic risk to the U.S. agricultural industry.
REMI cordially invites you to join us for a guest webinar presentation on Wednesday, November 28th from 2 to 3 p.m. EST that addresses the implications of FMD. Our guest presenters will be faculty members at Texas A&M University-Commerce’s Department of Economics and Finance: Professor Steven S. Shwiff, Assistant Professor Maryfrances Miller, and Assistant Professor Lirong Liu, along with Stephanie A. Shwiff, Research Economist at the National Wildlife Research Center.
They will examine how the economic impact of a spread of foot-and-mouth disease can be modeled using REMI software, such as the inclusion of cattle deaths in REMI policy variables.
The extent of the impacts is shaped in large part by the timing and spread of the disease, as well as by any mitigation efforts. The benefit of using REMI is that it allows policy makers to drill down to the specific employment impacts of an FMD spread.
Adam Rose, Dan Wei, Justin Strachan – Impacts of Property Assessed Clean Energy Programs
[Slides]Impacts of Property Assessed Clean Energy Programs – Adam Rose, Dan Wei, and Justin Strachan
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing represents a simple and effective way to provide affordable financing for a wide range of property improvements designed to conserve energy and water, as well as make our homes, businesses, and infrastructure more resilient to environmental risks.
REMI cordially invites you to join us for a guest webinar presentation on Wednesday, November 14th from 2 to 3 p.m. EST by Adam Rose and Dan Wei, professors at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, and Justin Strachan, Policy and Legislative Associate at Ygrene Energy Fund. They will present their analysis of the impacts of the PACE programs administered by Ygrene, including existing examples in California, Florida, and Missouri.
Established by state legislation and enabled by local governments, PACE leverages private capital to upgrade existing homes and buildings to reduce energy consumption, promote renewable power, and mitigate against the effects of natural disasters. The improvements are repaid over time through a special assessment on the property owner’s property tax bill.
For this webinar, the presenters will discuss the impacts PACE financing has on the built environment, natural environment, and economic vitality of the communities that these programs serve. They will show how they evaluated these complex effects using the REMI PI+ economic impact analysis model.