Spring 2026

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 — 1/12/2026 — What is Environmental Economics?

Tools of Economic Analysis

Lecture #2 — 1/14/2026 — Market Failures
Lecture #3 — 1/21/2026 — Modeling Pollution

Government Intervention in Environmental Policy

Lecture #4 — 1/26/2026 — The Coase Theorem

solution to MAC with MD example

Lecture #5 — 1/28/2026 — Command and Control Policies
Lecture #6 — 2/2/2026 — Taxes & Subsidies
Lecture #7 — 2/4/2026 — Emission Fees
Lecture #8 — 2/9/2026 — Transferable Discharge Permits

Permit Trading example spreadsheet

Lecture #9 — 2/11/2026 — Permit Trading Examples

Permit trading slides for class

Lecture #10 — 2/16/2026 — Policy Instrument Choice: Theory
Lecture #11 — 2/18/2026 — Policy Instrument Choice: Water

Water policy slides

Lecture #12 — 2/23/2026 — Environmental Federalism
Lecture #13 — 2/25/2026 — Behavioral Economics and Energy Efficiency
Lecture #14 — 3/2/2026 — Behavioral Economics and Energy Efficiency/Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy