Bonus

To study this variable, Dell, Jones, and Olken used decades of panel data with “distributed lag” from 125 countries, finding that changes in it affect growth rates, not just levels of output. For 10 points each:
[10h] The trade group ASHRAE’s (“ASH-ray’s”) Standard 55 concerns what variable? Cai (“tsai”), Lu, and Wang’s study of a Chinese paper cup factory is one of many to find an inverted-U relationship between this variable and productivity.
ANSWER: temperature [or air temperature; or average atmospheric temperature; or ambient temperature; accept thermal comfort; prompt on climate change; prompt on global warming; prompt on weather; prompt on AC or air conditioning by asking “what variable does that affect?”] (ASHRAE is the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.)
[10m] This retired Yale economist has said that “optimal policy” might let global temperatures rise by up to 4 degrees Celsius. His DICE model of climate change earned him a Nobel in 2018.
ANSWER: William Nordhaus [or William Dawbney Nordhaus; or Bill Nordhaus]
[10e] A Nordhaus book on climate is titled for Managing the Global resource of this type, which can undergo a namesake “tragedy” if overused.
ANSWER: commons [or common-pool resource; accept Managing the Global Commons; accept tragedy of the commons]
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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaOttawa0101020ME
Chicago BGeorgia Tech001010E
Columbia AWaterloo A0101020ME
Columbia BCornell B001010E
Cornell AToronto B0101020ME
HarvardMIT001010E
Illinois BVanderbilt001010E
IndianaNorth Carolina A001010E
Johns HopkinsToronto C001010E
LSEFlorida001010E
MarylandWinona State001010E
MinnesotaVirginia Tech001010E
NYUUC Berkeley B0101020ME
NorthwesternChicago A0101020ME
Penn StateArizona State001010E
RITOhio State001010E
RutgersToronto A001010E
StanfordIllinois A0101020ME
TexasIowa State001010E
UC Berkeley AWUSTL A0101020ME
UCFMichigan001010E
VirginiaNorth Carolina B0101020ME
WUSTL BGeorgia State001010E
Waterloo BYale0101020ME

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2413.75100%38%0%