How to Design a Research Project
Structure of the Report
Evaluation Sheet for Oral Presentation
List of Papers – Presentations
Research Paper
Giving talks
Homework #1 [ January 30th]
Homework #2 [February 13th]
Homework #3 [March 6th]
Homework #4 [April 8th]
Introduction [January 7th]
Efficiency and Markets [January 7th]
Simple Externalities Examples [January 9th]
Externalities (MWG) [January 9th]
The Problem of Social Cost, R. Coase (1960) [January 14th]
Discussion – Coase (1960) [January 14th]
A Solution to the Problem of Externalities When Agents Are Well-Informed [January 16th]
Varian’s Paper 1994 [January 16th]
Public Goods: A survey of Experimental Research [January 23rd]
Game Theory for Playing Games: Sophistication in a negative-externality experiment [January 23rd]
Individual Decision Making in a Negative Externality Experiment
Discussion – Spraggon and Oxoby (2009) [January 23rd]
Chapter 6 Kolstad – Property Rights [January 28th]
Information and the Coase Theorem. Farrell (1987) [January 28th]
Variance – Farrell
Case Study: How climate change is increasing forest fires around the world [January 30th]
Chapter 7 Kolstad – Pigovian Fees [January 30th]
Xepapadeas (1991) – Environmental policy under imperfect information
Segerson (1988) – Uncertainty and incentives for nonpoint pollution control
CH 8 and CH 9 Kolstad – Environmental Policy
Oates et al. (1989) – The net benefits of incentive based regulation
Kolstad et al. (1990) – Substitutes or complements
Case Study: Judge’s Ruling on Gulf Oil Spill Lowers Ceiling on the Fine BP Is Facing
Weitzman (1974) – Prices vs Quantities
R.Stavins (1996) – Correlated Uncertainty and Policy Instrument Choice
Roberts et al. (1976) – Effluent charges and licenses under uncertainty
Kwerel (1977) – To tell the Truth
Smolensky et al (1968) – The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Ghetto Expansion
Barret (1999) – International Cooperation and the International Commons
Case Study: The Aarhus Convention
Ulph (1996) – Environmental Policy and International Trade when Governments and Producers Act Strategically
Kennedy (1994) – Equilibrium Pollution Taxes in Open Economies with Imperfect Competition
Case Study: Environmental Effects of International Trade
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
Espinola-Arredondo and Munoz-Garcia (2010)- Can Incomplete Information Lead to Under-exploitation in the Commons?, PDF – Presentation
Students’ Presentations:
- February 27th
- March 4th
- March 6th
- March 18th
- March 20th
Students’ Final Presentations:
- April 15th
- April 17th
- April 22nd
- April 24th
- April 29th
