Environmental economics and policy
A.A. 2024/2025
Obiettivi formativi
This course provides an introduction to the principles of environmental economics, with a focus on policy applications. The principal problem in any economics course is how to best allocate scarce resources. This holds true for environmental economics as well. However, environmental resources differ from other goods that economists study in that there is usually no market for them. Thus, government policies are needed to maintain and improve environmental quality. To appreciate the above aspects the fundamental concepts of Microeconomics necessary to understand the functioning of the economic system, the behavior of its agents, the market mechanism, the benefits of the exchange, as well as the cases where markets fail will be provided.
Risultati apprendimento attesi
At the end of the course the student will have familiarized her/himself with the fundamental concepts of Microeconomic theory necessary to understand the functioning of the economic system, the behavior of its agents, the market mechanism, the benefits of the exchange, as well as the cases where markets fail. These concepts are instrumental to the comprehension of environmental policies and of the environmental sustainability of economic systems. The student will therefore have acquired competence on the fundamentals of economic analysis of environmental problems and on the objectives and instruments of pollution control policies.
Periodo: Primo semestre
Modalità di valutazione: Esame
Giudizio di valutazione: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Corso singolo
Questo insegnamento può essere seguito come corso singolo.
Programma e organizzazione didattica
Edizione unica
Responsabile
Periodo
Primo semestre
In relazione alle modalità di erogazione delle attività formative per l'a.a. 2022/23, verranno date indicazioni più specifiche nei prossimi mesi, in base all'evoluzione.
Programma
Il corso fornirà una rassegna dei principali temi di economia ambientale, con particolare riferimento all'analisi di policy.
1. Economy-environment interdependence (Vona)
2. Sustainable development (Vona)
3. The environmental Kuznets curve and the natural resource curse (Vona)
4. Social efficiency (Gobbi)
5. Market failures, externalities and environmental degradation (Gobbi)
6. Coase Theorem (Gobbi)
7. Taxes and standards (Gobbi)
8. Emission permits and subsidies (Gobbi)
9. Applied lecture: the coal market game (Gobbi)
10. Irreversibility and uncertainty (Vona)
11. Management of common resources (Vona)
12. Applied lecture: the public good game (Vona)
1. Economy-environment interdependence (Vona)
2. Sustainable development (Vona)
3. The environmental Kuznets curve and the natural resource curse (Vona)
4. Social efficiency (Gobbi)
5. Market failures, externalities and environmental degradation (Gobbi)
6. Coase Theorem (Gobbi)
7. Taxes and standards (Gobbi)
8. Emission permits and subsidies (Gobbi)
9. Applied lecture: the coal market game (Gobbi)
10. Irreversibility and uncertainty (Vona)
11. Management of common resources (Vona)
12. Applied lecture: the public good game (Vona)
Prerequisiti
nessuno
Metodi didattici
Lezioni frontali, combinate con esercitazioni, discussioni in classe e presentazioni degli studenti
Materiale di riferimento
Slides, Core economics (https://www.core-econ.org/), Perman, R., Ma, Y., McGilvray, J. and Common, M., 2003. Natural resource and environmental economics. Pearson Education.
Modalità di verifica dell’apprendimento e criteri di valutazione
Esame scritto (70%)
Valutazione continua include presentazioni studenti (30%)
Valutazione continua include presentazioni studenti (30%)
SECS-P/01 - ECONOMIA POLITICA - CFU: 8
Lezioni: 64 ore
Docenti:
Gobbi Alessandro Pietro, Vona Francesco
Siti didattici
Docente/i
Ricevimento:
Giovedì 16:30-18:00 (è necessario richiedere un appuntamento via email)
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