Course Outline, ARE 201 - Karp 2012

Provisional date for final exam:

Tuesday December 4 @ 3.30 - 5.?? 201 Giannini

(If this date presents a problem for you, please let me know by October 16.

Instructor: Larry Karp


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Lecture Notes
Problem Sets & Solutions
Previous Exams

 

LECTURE NOTES

Chapter 5   

Chapter 6

 

Copeland and Taylor JEL

Environment and Trade Survey Paper

A note on tax incidence

PROBLEM SETS & SOLUTIONS

Information about problem sets

Problem set grading matrix

 

 

    

 

PREVIOUS EXAMS

Undergrad notes

The notes below are used in an undergrad course that I teach.  Many -- and perhaps all -- of these notes will be useful for students in ARE 201

 

These notes explain the equivalence of producer and consumer taxes, define tax incidence, and show how to approximate tax incidence.

tax incidence

 

These notes: (i) show how to calculate the gains from trade in a partial equilibrium setting; (ii) explain the meaning of first and second order approximations; (iii) explain import demand (excess demand) and export supply (excess supply) functions; and show how to calculate and to approximate the effect of a trade restriction.

trade in a partial equilibrium model

 

These notes use a partial equilibrium model to: (i) discuss the theory of second best; (ii) illustrate the theory of the second best using a simple model of pollution; (iii) introduce the Principle of Targetting; (iv) illustrate the use of second best policies.

Theory of the second best and the Principle of Targetting

 

These notes explain leakage using both a general and a partial equilibrium model

Leakage

 

These notes use a partial equilibrium model to explain the meaning of "optimal tariff" and to  illustrate the Nash equilibrium in at trade game

Nash Equilibrium Trade policies

OLD LECTURE NOTES (not yet updated)