Kelsey Jack, Associate Professor of Economics at UC Santa Barbara, in a conversation with Mary Steffel, Associate Professor of Marketing at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Discussing the potential for climate shocks to destabilize the revenue models of public utilities, using the case study of an extreme drought in Cape Town, South Africa.

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