Syllabus/achievement requirements

Reading list

Perman, R., Y.Ma, J.McGilvray and M.Common: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, 2003. Harlow. ISBN: 0-273-65559-0. Selected Chapters.

Nordhaus, W.D: The Challenge of Global Warming: Economic Models and Environmental Policy, 2007. Selected Chapters. link.

Coase, Ronald H.: The Problem of Social Cost, 1960. Journal of Law and Economics 3, p. 1-44. K.

Heyes, Anthony G.: Making Things Stick: Enforcement and Compliance., 1998. Oxford Review of Economic Policy 14 (4), p. 50-63. K.

Nyborg, K. and M. Rege: Does Public Policy Crowd Out Private Contributions to Public Goods?, 2003. Public Choice 115 (3) p. 397-418. K.

A. Lans Bovenberg: Green Tax Reform and the Double Dividend: an Updated Readers Guide, 1999. link.

Denicolo, V.: Pollution-Reducing Innovations under Taxes or Permits, 1999. Oxford Economic Papers 51, pg. 184-99. K.

Kjell Arne Brekke and Olof Johansson-Stenman: The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change, 2008. School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. Working Papers in Economics 305. link.

The Stern Review, Executive Summary, link.

M. Hoel: "Global Warming and other Transboundary Environmental Problems" in Bjerkholt, O. and Ping, X. (eds): Frontier Environmental Issues, 2005. Fudanpress. K. Link.

IPCC Working Group III Report : Mitigation of Climate Change - summary for policymakers, link.

Supplementary reading

Barrett, S.: Climate treaties and "breakthrough" technologies, 2006. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 96 (2), p.22-5. link.

Requate, T. and Unold, W.: Environmental Policy Incentives to Adopt Advanced Abatement Technology: Will the True Ranking Please Stand Up, 2003. European Economic Review 47, p. 125-146. link.

Martin Weitzman: The Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change, 2007. link.

Lyon, T. P. and J. W. Maxwell : Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environment: A Theoretical Perspective, 2008. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 2(2), 240-260. link.

 

 

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