Environmental Economics and Policy

Langue
d'enseignement

Anglais

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! This course will be taught exceptionally in English in 2025-2026
This course provides students with an introduction in environmental economics. 
The goal is to (1) provide students with a good analytical framework to study environmental problems, and (2) touch upon some specific policy issues. Those topics might change year by year. 
This course will be taught in English (lectures and learning material) with french welcome in class. 
Topics for the course will include among others

• Introduction to environmental economics.
• Externalities, public goods, role of the government, pigouvian taxes, tradeable emission permits
• Optimal level of pollution and the efficient reduction of emissions. 
• Economics of finite resources (Hotelling Rule). 
• Introduction to climate change economics. 
• Introduction to cost-benefit-studies.

Prerequisites: Good understanding of introductory (micro)economics is required for this course. Concept such as marginal cost, consumer surplus, and market clearing are assumed to well-understood. 

Modes d'évaluation
des acquis des étudiants

Ce cours est enseigné en anglais.  Merci de consulter la version anglaise du descriptif.

Autres infos

Moodle will be used for this course, where the slides and background material will be placed. 

Faculté ou entité
en charge

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