| SES # | Topics |
|---|---|
| General Topics | |
| 1 | Causation and Empirical Strategies to Estimate Causal Relationships |
| 2 | Externalities, Pigovian Taxes, and the Coasian Solution |
| 3 | Defining Welfare Changes and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
| Environmental Economics | |
| 4 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: Hedonic Method (Theory) |
| 5 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: Hedonic Method (Applications to Housing Markets) |
| 6 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: Hedonic Method (Applications to the Value of a Statistical Life) |
| 7 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: The Health Effects Approach (Theory) |
| 8 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: The Health Effects Approach (Estimating Dose-Response Relationships) |
| 9 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: The Heath Effects Approach (Empirical Estimates of Avoidance Behavior) |
| 10 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: The Household Production Function Approach |
| 11 | Valuation of Nonmarket Goods with an Emphasis on Environmental Goods: Locational Equilibrium and Other "Structural" Approaches |
| 12 | Environmental Policy Instruments: Prices vs. Quantities, Permits and Trading |
| 13 | Environmental Policy Instruments: Public Goods and Externalities, Inspections and Fines, Voluntary Regulations |
| 14 | Costs of Environmental Regulations: Indirect and Direct Measurement, Double Dividend Hypothesis |
| 15 | Policy Application: Climate Change |
| 16 | Topics at the Intersection of Environmental and Development Economics |
| Regulation of Other Markets | |
| 17 | Regulation of Financial Markets |
| 18 | Regulation of Labor Markets: US Labor Market Regulations, Regulation of Labor Markets in Europe and Developing Countries Workplace Safety Regulations |
| 19 | Offsetting Behavior in the Context of Traffic Safety Advertising Other Regulations |
| 20-26 | Student Presentations |