Robert M. Anderson is Coleman Fung Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1977 under the supervision of Shizuo Kakutani and Donald J. Brown. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1987. His research has ranged from the intersection between probability theory and logic, to game theory, general equilibrium theory, mathematical finance, and management of financial risk. His talk will focus on the practical welfare implications of the Arrow-Debreu Model for the main regulatory mechanisms—cap-and-trade and carbon taxes—for the control of climate change.
