SES # | Topics |
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General Topics | |
1 | Causation and Empirical Strategies to Estimate Causal Relationships |
2 | Externalities, Pigovian Taxes, and the Coasian Solution |
3 | Defining Welfare Changes and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
Environmental Economics | |
4 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: Hedonic Method (Theory) |
5 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: Hedonic Method (Applications to Housing Markets) |
6 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: Hedonic Method (Applications to the Value of a Statistical Life) |
7 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: The Health Effects Approach (Theory) |
8 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: The Health Effects Approach (Estimating Dose-Response Relationships) |
9 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: The Heath Effects Approach (Empirical Estimates of Avoidance Behavior) |
10 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: The Household Production Function Approach |
11 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: Locational Equilibrium and Other "Structural" Approaches |
12 | Environmental Policy Instruments: Prices vs. Quantities, Permits and Trading |
13 | Environmental Policy Instruments: Public Goods and Externalities, Inspections and Fines, Voluntary Regulations |
14 | Costs of Environmental Regulations: Indirect and Direct Measurement, Double Dividend Hypothesis |
15 | Policy Application: Climate Change |
16 | Topics at the Intersection of Environmental and Development Economics |
Regulation of Other Markets | |
17 | Regulation of Financial Markets |
18 | Regulation of Labor Markets: US Labor Market Regulations, Regulation of Labor Markets in Europe and Developing Countries Workplace Safety Regulations |
19 | Offsetting Behavior in the Context of Traffic Safety Advertising Other Regulations |
20-26 | Student Presentations |