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040281 KU Competition, Cooperation, and Regulation in the Green Economy (MA) (2024W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

service email address: opim.bda@univie.ac.at

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 60 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 04.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock (Vorbesprechung)
  • Freitag 11.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 18.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 25.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 08.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 15.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 22.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 29.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 06.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 13.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 10.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 17.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 31.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Freitag 31.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Donnerstag 27.02. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Content: The course will cover the fundamental problems and methods in environmental and resource economics:
Market failures, the Coase theorem, renewable and non-renewable resource economics theory, policy instruments, climate change, deforestation, international environmental problems, and international agreements. The course aim is to familiarize you with:
- Fundamental problems and methods in environmental & resource economics.
- Environmental problems tackled by applied microeconomic theory.
- The basic skills required to work on new problems in this field.

Compared to standard graduate courses, this graduate course is mathematically involved. You will have to deal with the formal representation toy acquire an economic understanding. The course will provide lessons on:
I. Introduction: Economics vs. Environment:
II. Policy: Regulation vs. Markets
III. Ressources I: Nonrenewable Ressources
IV. Ressources II: Renewable Ressources
V. Sustainability: Weak vs. Strong Sustainability
VI. Technology: ”Business as Usual” vs. Investments
VII. Applications I: Innovation vs. Adoption
VIII. Applications II: Deforestation vs. Conservation

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

There will be three take-home problem sets. You have to hand in individual, written solutions for each of these problem sets.
There will be a one-hour, closed-book final exam.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Your problem set solutions will be graded. Each problem set is worth up to 10% of your final grade. The final exam is worth 70% of your grade, the problem sets are worth up to 30%. Hence, to get a good final grade, you need to perform well on both exam and problem sets.

Prüfungsstoff

For the exam you will need to know the full content of the lecture materials, referenced textbook chapters, handed out
notes, and problem sets.

Literatur

The course will cover several chapters of:
- Phaneuf, D. and Requate, T. (2017): A Course Environmental Economics: Theory, Policy and Practice, 3rd Ed., CUP
- Karp, L. (2017). Natural resources as capital. Cambridge: MIT Press

Additional literature and lecture notes will be made available over the course moodle.


Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Do 16.01.2025 13:05