- 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 [September 8th]
- Homework #2 [September 27th]
Homework #3 [October 20th]
Homework #4 [November15th]
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 [October 27th]
Case Study: Environmental Effects of International Trade [October 27th]
Apesteguia, J. (2006) Does Information Matter in the Commons? Experimental Evidence, PDF – Presentation [November 1st]
Case Study: Ground Water Basin Management [November 1st]
Mason, C. and S. Polasky (1994)- Entry deterrence in the commons, PDF – Presentation [November 3rd]
Espinola-Arredondo and Munoz-Garcia (2010)- Can Incomplete Information Lead to Under-exploitation in the Commons?, PDF – Presentation [November 8th]
Students’ Presentations (October 4th -20th):
- September 29th: Banguning Asgha “Giving green to get green? Incentives and consumer adoption of hybrid vehicle technology” Discussant: Putriesti Mandasari
- September 29th: Yazeed Aldhafian “The Organization of R&D and Environmental Policy” Discussant: Dipanwita Barai
- October 4th: Dane Franchi “Are There Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles? The Importance of Local Factors” Discussant: Sita Khanal
- October 4th: Nabittun Nahar “Do water-saving technologies save water? Empirical evidence from North China” Discussant: Kairon Garcia
- October 6th: Eric Hubbard “Toward a delineation of the circumstances in which cooperation can be sustained in environmental and resource problems” Discussant: Almira Salimgarieva
- October 6th: Will Ottentenheimer “The tradeoff of the commons under stochastic use” Discussant: Wiz Sugiarto
- October 11th: Katie Swanson “Impacts of climate change on agriculture: Evidence from China” Discussant: Banguning Asgha
- October 11th: Aditi Surve “Analyzing the effectiveness of international environmental policies: The case of the Kyoto Protocol” Discussant: Yazeed Aldhafian
- October 13th: Almira Salimgarieva “Pollution Haven and Corruption Paradise” Discussant: Dane Franchi
- October 13th: Wiz Sugiarto “Crime, weather, and climate change” Discussant: Nabittun Nahar
- October 18th: Sita Khanal “Shale gas development and infant health: evidence from Pennsylvania” Discussant: Eric Hubbard
- October 18th: Kairon Garcia “Shale Gas Development and Drinking Water Quality” Discussant: Will Ottentenheimer
- October 20th: Putriesti Mandasari “Environmental policies and productivity growth: Evidence across industries and firms” Discussant: Katie Swanson
- October 20th: Dipanwita Barai “Cross-country electricity trade, renewable energy and European transmission infrastructure policy” Discussant: Aditi Surve
Students’ Final Presentations (November 15th – December 8th):
- November 15th:
- November 15th:
- November 17th:
- November 17th:
- November 29th:
- November 29th:
- December 1st:
- December 1st:
- December 3rd:
- December 3rd:
- December 6th:
- December 6th:
- December 8th:
- December 8th:
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