The lecture plan is posted on the course page and will be continuously updated, following the syllabus below
Note: Main syllabus is the lectures, the lecture notes and the seminars, the articles and the book are meant as support.
Main lecture notes:
? Harstad, B. (2016) Compliance Technology and Self-Enforcing Agreements. Lecture note, University of Oslo. Pdf
? Harstad, B. (2016) Deforestation and REDD contracts. Lecture note, University of Oslo. Pdf
? Harstad, B. (2016) Legally Binding Environmental Agreements. Lecture note, University of Oslo. Pdf
Main text book
? Perman et al: Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, 4th ed., 2011. Pearson Education. ISBN: 978-0-321-41753-4.
? Online appendices available here: http://personal.strath.ac.uk/r.perman/appendices.htm
? Note: The book is very comprehensive, and is used as a book of reference. Main focus will be on the chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 13.
Articles
? Barrett, S. (2005). The theory of international environmental agreements. In Maler, K. G. and Vincent, J., editors, Handbook of Environmental Economics.
? Coase, R. H. (2016) The problem of social cost. Journal of Law and Economics, 3(Oct):1-44.
? Golombek, R., Hagem, C., and Hoel, M. (1995). Efficient incomplete international climate agreements. Resource and Energy Economics, 17(1):25-46.
? Harstad, B. (2012). Buy coal! a case for supply-side environmental policy. Journal of Political Economy, 120(1):77–115.
? Karp, L. (2005) Global warming and hyperbolic discounting. Journal of Public Economics, 89(2-3):261-282.
? Montgomery, W. (1972). Markets in licenses and efficient pollution control programs. Journal of Economic Theory, 5(3):395-418.
? Newell, R. G., Pizer, W. A., and Raimi, D. (2013). Carbon Markets 15 Years after Kyoto: Lessons Learned, New Challenges. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(1):123-146.
? Oates, W. E. and Schwab, R. M. (1988). Economic competition among jurisdictions: efficiency enhancing or distortion inducing? Journal of Public Economics, 35(3):333-354.
? Pigou, A. C. (1920). The Economics of Welfare. Palgrave Macmillan, UK.
? Sandmo, A. (1975). Optimal Taxation in the Presence of Externalities. The Swedish Journal of Economics, 77(1):86-98.
? Schmalensee, R. and Stavins, R. N. (2013). The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(1):103-122.
? Weitzman, M. L. (1974). Prices vs. quantities. The Review of Economic Studies, 41(4):477–491.
? Weitzman, M. L. (1998). Why the Far-Distant Future Should Be Discounted at Its Lowest Possible Rate. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 36(3):201-208.