Post-graduate Courses

Course description:

This course provides a comprehensive approach to the complex relationship between trade, the environment and resources. It is divided into two parts. The first one examines the nexus between trade and the environment, while the second focuses on trade in natural resources. This course will help students understand some important and controversial issues related to climate change, trade and environmental policies. 

Instructors:

Karine Constant and Chahir Zaki

Institution:

Université d'Orléans - Orléans School of Economics 

Program:

Master's in International Economics and Sustainable Development

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of macroeconomics, econometrics, microeconomics, environmental and resource economics

Teaching language:

English 

Course structure:

20 hours of lectures

10 hours of tutorials

Evaluation:

Continuous hands-on exercises (50%)

• Oral presentation (40%)

• Slides content and clarity (25%)

• Written summary (35%)

Final exam (50%)

Topics:

Part 1: Trade and the Environment

• International trade and the environment

• International policies 

• Focus on climate change

Part 2: Trade and Resources

• Introduction to the economics of mineral and natural resources 

• Trade and mineral resources 

• Trade in critical minerals

Course description

This course provides a comprehensive approach of the complex relationship between trade and energy. It is divided into two parts with the first part examining the global energy problem and the second one explains trade in critical minerals. This course will help students understand some important and controversial issues related to energy transition, trade relations, and the management of critical minerals. 

Instructors

Chahir Zaki 

Institution

Université d'Orléans - Orléans School of Economics 

Program:

Master's in International Economics and Sustainable Development (M2)

Prerequisites

International, environmental and resource economics

Teaching language

English 

Course structure

20 hours of lectures

Evaluation

Continuous hands-on exercises (50%)

• Tutorials 30%

• Presentations 20%

Final exam (50%)

Topics

• Introduction: Energy supply and demand

• Conventional energy and resource management 

• Renewable energy

• Electricity markets

• International energy and climate change policy

• Energy transition and trade policy

• Concepts, measurement and identification of critical minerals

• Theoretical framework: Cartels, political economy, and rules

• Trade in critical minerals and energy transition

Course description

This course provides a comprehensive approach to understanding critical minerals. It first explains the importance of critical minerals in both the energy and digital transition. Then, it focuses on the criteria used to identify their criticality. Finally, the course presents the economic, social, and political implications of these minerals.  

Instructor

Chahir Zaki 

Institution

Université d'Orléans - Orléans School of Economics

Prerequisites

Macroeconomics and resource economics

Teaching language

English 

Course structure

6 hours of lectures

Topics

• What are critical minerals?

• On the criticality of critical minerals.

• Hoteling's rule.

• The implications of critical minerals. 

Course description:

This course examines the evaluation of different environmental policies, focusing on common methods in economics with a specific focus on evaluating effectiveness of environmental policies in terms of impact (environmental and economic) and the role of different economic drivers. In addition, it analyzes the implications of environmental regulations on the global economy, with a special focus on the impact of environmental provisions in trade agreements (including the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms) and environmental laws on trade and global value chains. It also sheds light on the cost of compliance.

Instructors:

Nada Maamoun and Chahir Zaki

Institution:

University of Hamburg

Program:

Master of Law and Economics in the Arab Region

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of macroeconomics, microeconomics, international, environmental and resource economics

Teaching language:

English 

Course structure:

20 hours of lectures

Evaluation:

Final exam (100%)

Topics:

1. Introduction to trade, GVC and environment

-        Environmental Kuznet Cruve

-        Pollution Haven vs. Porter Hypothesis

-        Technique, scale and composition effects

2. Trade and environmental regulations

-        National legislations

-        International environmental treaties

-        Regionalism, multilateralism and the environment

-        Environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements

-        WTO and the environment

3. Policy Evaluation

-        Policy instruments

-        Criteria for evaluation

4. Methods in Policy Evaluation

-        Advantages and disadvantages

-        Scope

-        Application on different Environmental policies

Course description

The course provides an introduction to environmental economics. We will review why free markets are unlikely to provide a socially efficient level of environmental quality and discuss public policy options to correct these market failures. With the help of empirical and theoretical contributions, the course examines the major challenge of sustainable development and the mutual interactions between its three dimensions: economic, environmental, and social. The concepts will be applied to real world environmental problems such as local air pollution, climate change, natural resource management. 

Instructor:

Karine Constant

Institution:

Université d'Orléans - Orléans School of Economics 

Program:

Master's in International Economics and Sustainable Development (M1)

Instructor:

Karine Constant

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of Advanced Micro and Macroeconomics  is essential for this course.

Teaching language:

English 

Course structure:

20 hours of lectures

10 hours of tutorials

Evaluation:

Final exam + 2 exams for tutorials 

Topics:

• Market failure, external cost and benefit,

• Common pool resources and public goods,

• Cost-venefit analysis (revealed and stated preference methods)

• Decentralized policies (governing the commons, Coase's theorem, liability, information disclosure, nudges)

• Command and control policies

• Incentive-based policies

• Market-based trading programs

• Sustainable development

• Environmental Kuznets Curve

• Environmental health, inequality