Spring 2022
- 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 — 1/24/2022 — What is Environmental Economics?
Tools of Economic Analysis
Lecture #2 — 1/26/2022 — Market Failures
Lecture #3 — 1/31/2022 — Modeling Pollution
Government Intervention in Environmental Policy
Lecture #4 — 2/2/2022 — Modeling Pollution/The Coase Theorem
Lecture #5 — 2/7/2022 — Liability Law/Command and Control Policies
Lecture #6 — 2/9/2022 — Command and Control/Taxes & Subsidies
Lecture #7 — 2/14/2022 –Emission Fees
Lecture #8 — 2/16/2022 — Transferable Discharge Permits
2022 Trading example spreadsheet
2020 Trading example spreadsheet
Lecture #9 — 2/21/2022 — Permit Trading Examples
Lecture #10 — 2/23/2022 — Policy Instrument Choice: Theory
Lecture #11 — 2/28/2022 — Policy Instrument Choice: Water
Lecture #12 — 3/2/2022 — Behavioral Economics and Energy Efficiency
Lecture #13 — 3/7/2022 — Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy
Lecture #14 — 3/9/2022 — Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy
Valuing Environmental Benefits and Costs
Lecture #15 — 3/21/2022 — Valuing Environmental Benefits: Revealed Preference Approaches
Lecture #16 — 3/23/2022 — Valuing Environmental Benefits: Stated Preference Approaches
Lecture #17 — 3/28/2022 — Estimating Benefits
Lecture #18 — 3/30/2022 — Costs of Environmental Policy/Benefit-Cost Analysis
Lecture #19 — 4/4/2022 — Benefit-Cost Analysis
Energy Resources
Lecture #20 — 4/6/2022 — Energy Pricing
Lecture #21 — 4/11/2022 — Alternative Energy Technologies
Energy technology slides: part 1
Lecture #22 — 4/13/2022 — Alternative Energy Technologies
Energy technology slides: part 2
Lecture #23 — 4/18/2022 — Water as a Scarce Resource
The Environment in Developing Countries
Lecture #24 — 4/20/2022 — Growth and the Environment
Lecture #25 — 4/25/2022 — Environmental Issues in Developing and Emerging Economies
International Environmental Policies
Lecture #26 — 4/27/2022 — Policies to Promote Environmental Protection in Developing Countries
Lecture #27 — 5/2/2022 — International Trade Agreements
Political Economy
Lecture #28 — 5/4/2022 — The Political Economy of Environmental Policy