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| WEEK: | TOPICS: |
| 1 - Sep 28 | National Holiday |
| 2 - Oct 5 | Introduction, Market failures - externalities, tragedy of the commons, environment as public good |
| 3 - Oct 12 | Interventionist solutions to the Externality problem – Pigouvian taxes and standards and charges; Environmental Kuznets curve; Environmental labeling |
| 4 - Oct 19 | Interventionist solutions to the Externality problem – Marketable pollution permits |
| 5 - Oct 26 | Non-Interventionist solutions to the Externality problem – The Coasian solution |
| Presentation topics to be agreed on | |
| 6 - Nov 2 | Non-interventionist solutions to the Externality problem – Voluntary programs and self-regulation |
| 7 - Nov 9 | Environmental Policy in the Czech Republic – History and current issues |
| 8 - Nov 16 | Students’ Presentations |
| 9 - Nov 23 | Environmental Policy in the EU – History and Current problems |
| 10 - Nov 30 | Environmental Policy in the world context – History and Current problems |
| 11 - Dec 7 | Renewable Resources (guest lecture + discussion) |
| 12 - Dec 14 | Final Exam |
| Lecture 1 | |
| Worksheet to Lecture 1 |
| Hoyt, Ryan, Houston, The Paper River: A Demonstration of Externalities and Coase’s Theorem | |
| Hardin, The Tragedy of the commons |
| Levitt, List, Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future |
| Lecture 2 | |
| Worksheet to Lecture 2 |
| Plott, Externalities and Corrective Policies in Experimental Markets | |
| Do not forget to consult relevant parts of the Schotter's textbook (Chapter 17 - externalities and interventionist solutions)! | |
| Yandle, Vijayaraghavan, Bhattarai, The Environmental Kuznets Curve. A Primer | |
| Cason, Gangadharan, Environmental labelling and incomplete consumer information in laboratory markets |
| Stern, The Rise and Fall of the Environmental Kuznets Curve |
| Lecture 3 | |
| Worksheet to Lecture 3 |
| Lecture 4 | |
| Worksheet to Lecture 4 |
| Coase, The problem of social cost | |
| Hoffman, Spitzer, The Coase Theorem: Some Experimental Tests | |
| Harrison, McKee, Experimental Evaluation of the Coase Theorem |
| Lecture 5 | |
| Worksheet to Lecture 5 |
| Potoski, Prakash, Green Clubs and Voluntary Governance: ISO 14001 and Firms’ Regulatory Compliance | |
| Potoski, Prakash, Covenants with Weak Swords: 14001 and Facilities’ Environmental Performance | |
| (You can skip sections "Data and Measures," "Analytic method," and tables on pp. 760,761.) |
| Lecture 6 | |
| Worksheet to Lecture 6 |
| Lecture 8 | |
| Worksheet to Lecture 8 |
| Lecture 9 | |
| Worksheet to Lectures 9 |
| Lecture 10 | |
| Worksheet to Lectures 10 |
| Kramer, Development of Environmental Policies in the United States and Europe: Convergence or Divergence? | |
| Muller, Copenhagen 2009 Failure or final wake-up call for our leaders |