UPCES course on Environmental Economics Spring 2009

Schotter, Microeconomics, A Modern Approach (Second edition), chapter 17 (relevant for lectures 1 - 5) part1, part2

Lecture 1 (February 19) - JK/AO

	Hoyt, Ryan, Houston, The Paper River: A Demonstration of Externalities and Coase’s Theorem
	Plott, Externalities and Corrective Policies in Experimental Markets

	Cherry, Kroll, Shogren, Environmental Economics, Experimental Methods
	Horowitz, McConnell, Murphy, Behavioral Foundations of Environmental Economics and Valuation
	Greenstone, Gayer, Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Approaches to Environmental Economics
	Levitt, List, Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future

Lecture 2 (February 26) - AO

	List, Neoclassical Theory versus Prospect Theory: Evidence From the Marketplace
	Plott, Externalities and Corrective Policies in Experimental Markets
	Zelmer, Linear Public Goods Experiments: A Meta-Analysis
	Cotten, Ferraro, Vossler, Can public goods experiments inform policy? Interpreting results in the presence of confused subjects (Cherry, Chapter 10)
	Stern, The Rise and Fall of the Environmental Kuznets Curve
	Yandle, Vijayaraghavan, Bhattarai, The Environmental Kuznets Curve. A Primer

Lecture 3 (March 5) - JK

	Plott, Externalities and Corrective Policies in Experimental Markets
	Cason, Gangadharan, Environmental labelling and incomplete consumer information in laboratory markets

Lecture 4 (March 12) - AO

	Burtraw, Palmer, Auction Design for Selling CO2 Emissions Allowances Put to Inaugural Test
	Portera, Rassenti, Shobe, Smith, Winn, The design, testing and implementation of Virginia’s NOx allowance auction
	Cason, Gangadharan, Transactions Costs in Tradable Permit Markets: An Experimental Study of Pollution Market Designs

Lecture 5 (March 19) - JK

	Coase, The problem of social cost
	Hoffman, Spitzer, The Coase Theorem: Some Experimental Tests
	Harrison, McKee, Experimental Evaluation of the Coase Theorem

Lecture 6 (March 26) - AO

	Cason, Gangadharan, Auction Design for Voluntary Conservation Programs
	Evans, Gilpatric, McKee, Vossler, Managerial Incentives for Compliance with environmental information disclosure programs (Cherry, Chapter 13)
	Potoski, Prakash, Green Clubs and Voluntary Governance: ISO 14001 and Firms’ Regulatory Compliance
	Potoski, Prakash, Covenants with Weak Swords: 1001 and Facilities’ Environmental Performance

	Clark, Friesen, Muller, The Good, The Bad, And The Regulator: An Experimental Test of Two Conditional Audit Schemes
	Prakash, Potoski, Racing to the Bottom? Trade, Environmental Governance, and ISO 14001

April 2: Midterm exam

Lecture 7 (April 9) - JK

	Axelrod, Nuclear Power and EU Enlargement: The Case of Temelín
	CENIA – website of the Czech Ministry of the Environment’s information agency
	Environment Center of Charles University
	Deets, Kouba, The Czech Greens revived
	Jehlicka , Sarre, Podoba, The Czech Environmental Movement's Knowledge Interests in the 1990s: Compatibility of Western Influences with pre-1989 Perspectives

Lecture 8 (April 23) - AO

	Camin, Vandeveer, Enlarging EU Environments: Central and Eastern Europe from Transition to Accession
	Carter, Transforming environmental policy: Does Europe lead the way?
	Hey, EU Environmental Policies: A Short History of the Policy Strategies
	Jehlicka, Tickle, Environmental Implications of Eastern Enlargement: The End of Progressive EU Environmental Policy?
	Kramer, EU Enlargement and the Environment: Six Challenges
	Kruzikova, EU Accession and Legal Change: Accomplishments and Challenges in the Czech Case

Lecture 9 (April 30) - JK/AO

	Kramer, Development of Environmental Policies in the United States and Europe: Convergence or Divergence?
	OECD, The Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes
	Godby, Shogren, Caveat emptor Kyoto, Comparing buyer and seller liability in carbon emission trading (Cherry, Chapter 3)

Schleich, Rogge, and Betz, Incentives for energy efficiency in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Lecture 10 (May 7) - AO

	Harrison, Harstad, Rutstrom, Experimental Methods and Elicitation of Values
	Murphy, Stevens, Contingent Valuation, Hypothetical Bias, and Experimental Economics
	European Environment Agency Report, Transport at a Crossroads

	Plott, Zeiler, The Willingness to Pay - Willingness to Accept Gap, the "Endowment Effect," Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations
	Plott, Zeiler, Asymmetries in Exchange Behavior Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Endowment Effect Theory and Prospect Theory?

Lecture 11 (May ??)

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