Course Materials by Section
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Introduction |
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Syllabus |
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Readings |
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Current calendar
for August to December (updated: 9/29) |
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In the news at NYT: Yesterday's reports about population
boom is a bust and maybe a greener
globe |
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Environmental and Resource Economics (ERE) |
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Presentation (pdf) |
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Worksheet 1 |
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Externalities: Pigouvian Taxes, Standards, and Efficiency
I |
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Presentation (pdf) |
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Externalities: Pigouvian Taxes, Standards, and Efficiency
I |
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Background presentation (pdf) |
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Discussion and proofs of propositions 1 to 6 |
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NYTimes: pollution in China (rivers)
(fish) |
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5. |
Pigovian Taxes in Theory and Practice |
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Background presentation
(pdf) |
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Presentation
on Fullerton and West (2002) |
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Presentation on
Fullerton and Wu (1998) |
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6. |
The Double Dividend and Tax Interaction Effects |
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Presentation on Goodstein
(2003) |
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Presentation
on Parry et al (1999) |
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7. |
Taxes versus Quantity Controls under Uncertainty |
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Short in-class presenations |
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8. |
Standards in Practice |
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Incentives for Innovation:
Emission Taxes versus Standards |
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List, Millimet, and McHone
(2004) |
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McClelland and Horowitz
(1999) |
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9. |
Ronald Coase and Environmental Policy |
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Discussion of Coase's "The Problem of Social Cost,"
JLE, 1960. |
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Can we model the zero transaction
case in a one person/two firm case? |
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Nobel
prize lecture |
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Biography
of Ronald Coase |
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Nobel
Prize press release |
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10. |
A Coasian Implication: Trading in Pollution Abatement |
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Presentation on Section
5.2 in Hanley et al |
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Presentation on
Sections 5.3 and 5.4 in Hanley et al |
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11. |
Tradeable Permits |
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Tietenberg
1999 |
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Newell and Rogers 2003 |
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Montero, Sanchez, and
Katz (2002) |
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12. |
Tradeable Permits and Transactions Costs |
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Stavins 1995 |
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Water
Quality, Trading, and Agriculture |
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13 & 14. |
Environmental Liability: Models and Empirical Analysis |
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Segerson and Tietenberg 1992 (not received from presenter) |
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Alberini and Austin 1999 (not received from presenter) |
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Laplante and Rilstone 1996 (not received from presenter) |
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15. |
Public Goods and Private Provision |
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Cornes and Sandler
1986, Chapter 5 |
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Cornes and Sandler
1986, Chapter 6 |
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Brekke, Kverndokk, and
Nyborg 2003 |
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16. |
Ethics and Social Capital in Public Goods Supply |
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Andreoni and Petrie
2004 |
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Rege and Telle 2004 |
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Peters, Unur, Clark, and Schulze 2004 (not received
from presenter) |
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Midterm |
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Questions and answers |
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Common Property and the Evolution of Resource Institutions |
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Questions for
study |
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Libecap and Smith 2002 |
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Munoz-Pina,
de Janvry, and Sadoulet 2003 (not received from presenter) |
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Ostrom 1990 (not received
from presenter) |
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20. |
Information Disclosure and Emissions Control |
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Tietenberg and Wheeler 1998 (not received from presenter) |
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Foulon, Lanoie,
and Laplante 2002 |
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Khanna and Damon 1999 |
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23. |
Political Economy |
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Lee and Alm 2004 |
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Helland and Whitford
2004 |
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Fernandez 2004 |
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24. |
The Porter Hypothesis, Technological Change, and the
Kuznets Curve |
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Dasguptha et al 1995 |
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Harbaugh et al 2002 |
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Porter and van der Linde 1995 (not received from presenter) |
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Palmer et al 1995 |
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25. |
Trade and Environmental Quality |
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Presentation
on Copeland and Taylor (2004), and Antweiler et al (2001) |
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Valuation Methods in Action and in Theory |
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Click to download readings: Flores,
McCollum |
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World Bank Report: |
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Pagiola, von Ritter, and Bishop,
Assessing the Economic Value of Ecosystem Conservation, 2004 |
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How Much is an Ecosystem Worth?
Assessing the Economic Value of Conservation |
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Items of Interest |
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Jobs |
1. |
List
of Employers and Agencies in ERE (N.C. State CENREP) |
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Links |
2. |
USDA Water Quality
Information Center |
3. |
Bookmarks
in ERE (Professor Trudy Ann Cameron) |
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News and articles |
4. |
The Macroeconomics
of Happiness (Does Income Increase Happiness?) |
5. |
News: Calfornia's
Plan to Cut Automobile CO2 Emissions |
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CAB
Analysis of the CA Regulations |
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