FINAL REVIEW SOLUTIONS ARE UP. SEE BELOW.

Course Description

General Information

Course Meetings: Monday and Wednesdays from 2:05 to 3:20 pm in SB 402.

Office: Room 521B, Jenkins School of Business.

Office hours: Tuesdays at 2-3 pm (Dave is almost always around during business hours, but try to come during office hours if you can).

Contacts: Dave can be contacted via phone (8x3725) or email (dkelly@miami.edu).

Web Site: Dave has established a website (http://moya.bus.miami.edu/~dkelly/teach/eco345/index.html) for this course. At this site, you can download or view course material (homeworks, etc.), as well as a continuously updated syllabus.

Final Exam: Wednesday, December 14 from 2 pm to 4:30 pm (Section G).

Prerequisites

Textbooks

Charles D. Kolstad, Environmental Economics Oxford University Press, 2011.

Grades

You can now access your grades on line HERE!

Additional Notes

• Attendance is very important for this class. All exam material comes from class notes, and not all class notes are available in the book. Dave tries to reference every topic (whether in the book or elsewhere). However, the wily student usually aces the course by attending every class and taking careful notes.
• The two quizzes are Wednesday October 5 and Wednesday November 2. Now is the time to mark your calendars. Only in the most dire emergencies can the student not take a quiz at the scheduled time. Even in dire emergencies, Dave does not allow a make-up, but instead counts the final double. STUDENTS MUST LET DAVE KNOW OF THEIR DIRE EMERGENCY BEFORE THE QUIZ BEGINS OR ELSE A ZERO IS AUTOMATICALLY RECORDED.
• Homeworks are due in class, at the beginning of class. Showing up 20 minutes late because you didn't finish the homework on time is not acceptable. Putting a homework in my mailbox, under my door, etc. is also not acceptable. Emailing homework is only acceptable if done in advance. By emailing my the homework right before class, you run the risk that I will examine the homework after class and be unable to open the file, in which case a zero is automatically recorded. Only in the most dire emergencies can a student be excused from turning in a homework on time. Even in dire emergencies Dave does not allow the homework to be turned in late, but will instead weight the final more. Students must let Dave know of their dire emergency before the beginning of the class for which the homework is due or else a zero is automatically recorded.
• Computers are not allowed in class. 99% of what you need to write down is either math or graphs. Most definitions, etc. are in the notes Dave provides.
• Smart phones, texting, portable games, X-boxes, Wiis, etc. are not allowed. Seeing students text breaks Dave's mental flow. Therefore, each time Dave sees a student texting, he will subtract 1% from that students final grade. WARNING: Dave can see you text even when done in the back of the class or under the table.<\LI>

Course Outline

1. Introduction (August 24 - 31).
1. What is Environmental Economics? (1.1).
2. Topics (1.6)
3. Approach
1. Positive versus Normative (2).
2. Moral neutrality and market failure. (3.1)
3. Resource Economics, ecological economics (1.1).
4. The economy and the environment: stylized facts (1.2).
5. Environmental Regulation (1.3,1.4).
2. Social choice, markets, and market failure (August 31 - September 28).
1. Social Choice.
1. Utility (3.3).
2. Pareto criterion (3.3).
2. Markets
1. Pareto efficiency (4.1).
2. Edgeworth Box (4.2).
3. Welfare theorems (4.2)
4. HOMEWORK 1, DUE SEPTEMBER 14
5. Surplus (4.3)
3. Market failure.
1. Public Goods (5.3-5.5).
2. Externalities (5.2).
3. Regulation under certainty (October 3 - October 24).
1. Property rights (13.1).
1. Coase theorem.
2. Polluter pays principle.
2. FIRST QUIZ OCTOBER 5
3. Market based regulation.
1. Pigouvian Taxes (12.1-12.4).
2. HOMEWORK 2, DUE OCTOBER 19
3. Tradeable permits (11.3,13.2).
4. Liability (11.3).
4. Command and control (11.3).
4. Regulation under uncertainty and other issues (October 24 - November 14).
1. Taxes versus permits (15).
2. Taxes versus permits under uncertainty
3. SECOND QUIZ, NOVEMBER 2
4. Safety valves and other hybrids (15.2b)
5. Optimal monitoring (16.2).
6. Initial permit allocation (13.2).
7. HOMEWORK 3, DUE NOVEMBER 16
8. Double dividend (12.5).
5. National and International trade and the environment (November 16-30).
1. Environmental Kuznets curve (20.1-20.2).
2. Pollution Havens (19.1).
3. Transboundry pollution (19.1).
4. Climate change (articles).

LEARNING OBJECTIVES.

Class Handouts

Note: all handouts may be downloaded as Adobe Acrobat pdf files. If your computer cannot read acrobat files, download the reader for free HERE .

Homework 1, Due Wednesday, September 14.

Homework 1, Solutions.

Review, First Quiz.

First Quiz.

First Quiz, Solutions.

Homework 2, Due October 19.

Homework 2, Solutions.

Review, Second Quiz.

Second Quiz.

Second Quiz, Solutions.

Homework 3, Due November 16.

Homework 3, solutions.

Final Review

Final Review Solutions

Notes, graphs, tables, etc.

Below are some notes for the class. I will add notes periodically throughout the semester. You will see that these notes, while helpful, are in an outline format and do not substitute for the notes taken in class.

Notes: Introduction (Section I)

Notes: Markets and Market Failures (Section II-III)

Notes: Regulation Under Certainty (Section IV)

Notes: Uncertainty and other issues. (Section V)

Notes: Trade (Section VII)

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