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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course explores the proper role of government in the regulation of the environment. It will help students develop the tools to estimate the costs and benefits of environmental regulations. These tools will be used to evaluate a series of current policy questions, including: Should air and water pollution regulations be tightened or loo
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- economics
- economics
- policy
- environment
- environmental economics
- public policy
- cost-benefit analysis
- resource management
- environmental regulation
- health
- sustainability
- public goods
- pollution
- pigouvian taxes
- liability
- kuznets curves
- competition
- growth
- double dividend
- hedonic
- valuation
- global warming
- porter hypothesis
- social choice
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course explores the theoretical and empirical perspectives on individual and industrial demand for energy, energy supply, energy markets, and public policies affecting energy markets. It discusses aspects of the oil, natural gas, electricity, and nuclear power sectors and examines energy tax, price regulation, deregulation, energy effi
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- economics
- supply and demand
- competitive market
- energy demand
- income elasticity
- multivariate regression analysis
- natural gas
- price regulation
- deregulation
- electricity
- oil
- energy security
- risk management
- futures markets
- climate change
- energy
- coal
- nuclear power
- energy efficiency
- policy
- renewable energy
- emissions
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course explores the theory behind and evidence on regulatory, tax, and other government responses to problems of market failure. Special emphasis is given to developing and implementing tools to evaluate environmental policies. Other topics include cost-benefit analysis, measurement of the benefits of non-market goods and costs of regu
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- economics
- economics
- environment
- public finance
- environmental economics
- research
- causation
- pigovian taxes
- coasian
- bost-benefit analysis
- public economics
- hedonic method
- valuation
- housing
- health effects
- dose-response
- avoidance
- household production function
- locational equilibrium
- policy
- regulations
- double dividend
- climate change
- dev
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course is an introduction to the theory of international trade and finance with applications to current policy issues. In this course we will cover the basic tools to understand what determines the flow of goods across countries, i.e. international trade, and what determines the flow of savings and investments from one country to anoth
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- economics
- theory of international trade
- finance
- policy
- flow of goods
- flow of savings and investments
- globalization
- free trade agreements
- the us current account deficit
- exchange rates
- european integration
- global financial architecture
- financial crises
- east asia
- argentina
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course explores the foundations of policy making in developing countries. The goal is to spell out various policy options and to quantify the trade-offs between them. We will study the different facets of human development: education, health, gender, the family, land relations, risk, informal and formal norms and institutions. This is
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- economics
- economics
- development
- policy
- human
- education
- health
- gender
- family
- land
- relations
- risk
- informal
- formal
- norms
- institutions
- decisions
- poor
- households
- countries
- government
- international
- organizations
- non-governmental organizations
- ngos
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