EI027: International Environmental Economics and Policy
Master in International Economics, IHEID (Spring 2014, 2015, 2016)

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Outline:

0. Introduction (slides)
1. Efficiency and markets (slides)
2. Public goods (slides)
3. Theory of externalities (slides)
4. Policy instruments (slides)

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EI055: Advanced Resource Economics A
PHD in Economics, IHEID (Fall 2015)

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Topic I: Behavioral energy economics (slides)

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Topic II: Structural estimation and the environment (slides)

Readings:

  • Keane (2010) `Structural vs. atheoretic approaches to econometrics', Journal of Econometrics, 156 (1), pp 3-20

  • Su and Judd (2012) `Constrained optimization approaches to estimation of structural models', Econometrica, 80 (5), pp 2213-2230

  • Bayer, Neohane and Timmins (2009) `Migration and hedonic valuation: The case of air quality', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 58 (1), pp 1 - 14

  • Duflo, Greenstone, Pande and Ryan (2014) `The value of regulatory discretion: Estimates from environmental inspections in India', NBER working paper

  • Scott (2015) `Dynamic discrete choice estimation of agricultural land use', TSE working paper

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EI025: Doctoral Seminar in Resource Economics I
PHD in Economics, IHEID (Fall 2014)

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Topic: Behavioural economics and energy consumption

Readings:

  • Allcott (2011) `Social norms and energy conservation', Journal of Public Economics 95 (9), pp 1082 - 1095

  • Jacobsen, Kotchen and Vandenbergh (2012), `The behavioral response to voluntary provision of an environmental public good: Evidence from residential electricity demand', European Economic Review 56, pp 946 - 960

  • Allcott and Taubinsky (2015) `Evaluating behaviorally-motivated policy: Experimental evidence from the lightbulb market', American Economic Review 105 (8), pp 2501 - 2538

  • Bollinger and Gillingham (2012) `Peer effects in the diffusion of solar photovoltaic panels', Marketing Science 31(6), pp 900 - 912

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E1025: Doctoral Seminar in Resource Economics
PHD in Economics, IHEID (Fall 2013)

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Topic: Climate-economy models and tipping points

Readings:

  • Golosov, Hassler, Krusell, and Tsyvinski (2014), `Optimal taxes on fossil fuel in general equilibrium', Econometrica 82(1), pp 41 - 88

  • Cai, Judd and Lontzek (2012), `Tipping points in a dynamic stochastic IAM', RDCEP Working Paper

  • Deschênes and Greenstone (2011), `Climate change, mortality, and adaptation: Evidence from annual fluctuations in weather in the US', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3, pp 152 - 185

  • Dell, Jones and Olken (2012), `Temperature shocks and economic growth: Evidence from the last half century', American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 4(3), pp 66 - 95