Spring 2024
- 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 — 1/17/2024 — What is Environmental Economics?
Tools of Economic Analysis
Lecture #2 — 1/22/2024 — Market Failures
Lecture #3 — 1/24/2024 — Modeling Pollution
Government Intervention in Environmental Policy
Lecture #4 — 1/29/2024 — The Coase Theorem
solution to MAC with MD example
Lecture #5 — 1/31/2024 — Liability Law/Command and Control Policies
Lecture #6 — 2/5/2024 — Taxes & Subsidies
Lecture #7 — 2/7/2024 — Emission Fees
Lecture #8 — 2/12/2024 — Transferable Discharge Permits
2024 Trading example spreadsheet
2020 Trading example spreadsheet
Lecture #9 — 2/14/2024 — Permit Trading Examples
Permit trading slides from class
Lecture #10 — 2/19/2024 — Policy Instrument Choice: Theory
Lecture #11 — 2/21/2024 — Policy Instrument Choice: Water
Lecture #12 — 2/26/2024 — Behavioral Economics and Energy Efficiency
Lecture #14 — 3/4/2024 — Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy
Valuing Environmental Benefits and Costs
Lecture #15 — 3/6/2024 — Valuing Environmental Benefits: Revealed Preference Approaches
Lecture #16 — 3/18/2024 — Valuing Environmental Benefits: Stated Preference Approaches
Lecture #17 — 3/20/2024 — Stated Preference Approaches: Estimating Benefits
Lecture #18 — 3/25/2024 — Estimating Benefits/Costs of Environmental Policy
Lecture #19 — 3/27/2024 — Benefit-Cost Analysis
Lecture #20 — 4/1/2024 — Benefit-Cost Analysis
Energy Resources
Lecture #21 — 4/3/2024 — Energy Pricing
Lecture #22 — 4/8/2024 — Alternative Energy Technologies
Lecture #23 — 4/10/2024 — Energy Technology Policy
Energy Technology Policy slides
The Environment in Developing Countries
Lecture #24 — 4/15/2024 — Growth and the Environment
Lecture #25 — 4/17/2024 — Environmental Issues in Developing and Emerging Economies
International Environmental Policies
Lecture #26 — 4/22/2024 — Policies to Promote Environmental Protection in Developing Countries
Lecture #27 — 4/24/2024 — Trade and the Environment