Spring 2025
- As the semester progresses, a link to each lecture will be added to this page. The link will include a summary of the main points from that day’s lecture.
Introduction
Lecture #1 — 1/13/2025 — What is Environmental Economics?
Tools of Economic Analysis
Lecture #2 — 1/15/2025 — Market Failures
Lecture #3 — 1/22/2025 — Modeling Pollution
Government Intervention in Environmental Policy
Lecture #4 — 1/27/2025 — The Coase Theorem
solution to MAC with MD example
Lecture #5 — 1/29/2025 — Command and Control Policies
Lecture #6 — 2/3/2025 — Taxes & Subsidies
Lecture #7 — 2/5/2025 — Emission Fees
Lecture #8 — 2/10/2025 — Transferable Discharge Permits
Permit Trading example spreadsheet
Lecture #9 — 2/12/2025 — Permit Trading Examples
Permit trading slides from class
Lecture #10 — 2/17/2025 — Policy Instrument Choice: Theory
Lecture #11 — 2/19/2025 — Policy Instrument Choice: Water
Lecture #12 — 2/24/2025 — Behavioral Economics and Energy Efficiency
Lecture #13 — 2/26/2025 — Behavioral Economics and Energy Efficiency/Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy
Lecture #14 — 3/3/2025 — Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy
Valuing Environmental Benefits and Costs
Lecture #15 — 3/5/2025 — Valuing Environmental Benefits: Revealed Preference Approaches
Lecture #16 — 3/17/2025 — Valuing Environmental Benefits: Stated Preference Approaches
Lecture #17 — 3/19/2025 — Stated Preference Approaches: Estimating Benefits
Lecture #18 — 3/24/2025 — Estimating Benefits/Costs of Environmental Policy
Lecture #19 — 3/26/2025 — Benefit-Cost Analysis
Lecture #20 — 3/31/2025 — Benefit-Cost Analysis
Energy Resources
Lecture #21 — 4/2/2025 — Energy Pricing
Lecture #22 — 4/7/2025 — Alternative Energy Technologies
Lecture #23 — 4/9/2025 — Energy Technology Policy
Energy Technology Policy slides
The Environment in Developing and Emerging Countries
Lecture #24 — 4/14/2025 — Growth and the Environment
Lecture #25 — 4/16/2025 — Environmental Issues in Developing and Emerging Economies
Lecture #25 — 4/16/2025 — Environmental Issues in Developing and Emerging Economies (post-class lecture notes)
International Environmental Policies
Lecture #26 — 4/21/2025 — Policies to Promote Environmental Protection in Developing Countries
Lecture #27 — 4/23/2025 — Trade and the Environment