EconS 582 – Environmental Economics, Fall 2021


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Syllabus

Introduction [August  23rd]
Efficiency and Markets [August  23rd]
Simple Externalities Examples [August  25th]
Externalities (MWG) [August 25th]
The Problem of Social Cost, R. Coase (1960) [August 25th]
Discussion – Coase (1960) [August 25th]
A Solution to the Problem of Externalities When Agents Are Well-Informed [August 30th]
Varian’s Paper 1994 [August 30th]
Public Goods: A survey of Experimental Research [September 1st]
Game Theory for Playing Games: Sophistication in a negative-externality experiment [September 1st]
Individual Decision Making in a Negative Externality Experiment
Discussion – Spraggon and Oxoby (2009) [September 1st]
Chapter 6 Kolstad – Property Rights [September 8th]
Information and the Coase Theorem. Farrell (1987) [September 8th]
Variance – Farrell
Case Study: How climate change is increasing forest fires around the world [September 13th]
Chapter 7 Kolstad – Pigovian Fees [September 13th]
Xepapadeas (1991) – Environmental policy under imperfect information [September 13th]
Segerson (1988) – Uncertainty and incentives for nonpoint pollution control [September 15th] Case Study
CH 8 and CH 9 Kolstad – Environmental Policy [September 20th]
Oates et al. (1989) – The net benefits of incentive based regulation
Kolstad et al. (1990) – Substitutes or complements [September 20th]
Case Study: Judge’s Ruling on Gulf Oil Spill Lowers Ceiling on the Fine BP Is Facing [September 20th]
Weitzman (1974) – Prices vs Quantities 
R.Stavins (1996) – Correlated Uncertainty and Policy Instrument Choice
Roberts et al. (1976) – Effluent charges and licenses under uncertainty [September 22nd]
Kwerel (1977) – To tell the Truth [September 22nd]
Smolensky et al (1968) – The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Ghetto Expansion
Barret (1999) – International Cooperation and the International Commons [September 27th]
Case Study: The Aarhus Convention [September 27th]
Ulph (1996) – Environmental Policy and International Trade when Governments and Producers Act Strategically [October 25th]
Kennedy (1994) – Equilibrium Pollution Taxes in Open Economies with Imperfect Competition
Case Study: Environmental Effects of International Trade [October 25th]
Apesteguia, J. (2006) Does Information Matter in the Commons? Experimental Evidence, PDF – Presentation
Case Study: Ground Water Basin Management
Mason, C. and S. Polasky (1994)- Entry deterrence in the commons, PDF – Presentation [October 27th]
Espinola-Arredondo and Munoz-Garcia (2010)- Can Incomplete Information Lead to Under-exploitation in the Commons?, PDF – Presentation [October 27th]

 Students’ Presentations (October 4th -20th):

Students’ Final Presentations (November 15th – December 8th):

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