Syllabus/achievement requirements

Note: Main syllabus is the lectures, the lecture notes and the seminars. The text book and the articles are support.

@ = material found online

Lecture notes

@ Lecturer notes (will be uploaded in Canvas).

Book

Phaneuf, D. J og Requate, T. A Course in Environmental Economics: Theory, Policy, and Practice, 2016. ISBN: 9780521178693, paperback.

Articles

@ Coase, R. H., The problem of social cost, 1960. The Journal of Law and Economics, 1-44.

@ Harstad, B., Buy coal! A case for supply-side environmental policy, 2012. Journal of Political Economy, 120(1): 7-115.

@ Hoel, M., “Efficient Climate Policy in the Presence of Free Riders.” J. Environmental Economics and Management 27 (3), 1994: 259–74.

@ Karp, L., Global warming and hyperbolic discounting, 2005. Journal of Public Economics, 89(2): 261-282.

@ Lemoine, D. & C. Traeger (2014), Watch Your Step - Optimal Policy in a Tipping Climate, AEJ:Policy 14 6(1): 137–166

@ Montgomery, W., Markets in licenses and efficient pollution control programs, 1972. Journal of Economic Theory, 5(3): 395-418.

@ Newell, R. G., Pizer, W. A., and Raimi, D., Carbon Markets 15 Years after Kyoto: Lessons Learned, New Challenges, 2013. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(1): 123-146.

@ Nordhaus, W. & P. Sztorc (2013), DICE 2013R: Introduction and User’s Manual, Website: dicemodel.net

@ Oates, W. E. and Schwab, R. M., Economic competition among jurisdictions: efficiency enhancing or distortion inducing?, 1988. Journal of Public Economics, 35(3): 333-354.

@ Sandmo, A. Optimal Taxation in the Presence of Externalities, 1975. The Swedish Journal of Economics, 77(1): 86-98.

@ Schmalensee, R. and Stavins, R. N., The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment, 2013. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(1): @ 103-122.

@ Sterner, T. & M. Persson (2008), An Even Sterner Review - Introducing Relative Prices into the Discounting Debate, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 2:61-76.

@ Traeger (2017), Analytic Integrated Assessment (with Temperature and Uncertainty). Website.

@ Weitzman, M. L., Prices vs. quantities, 1974. The Review of Economic Studies, 41(4): 477–491.

@ Weitzman, M. L., Why the Far-Distant Future Should Be Discounted at Its Lowest Possible Rate, 1998. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 36(3): 201-208.

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