Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

EEP 101/ECON 125

University of California at Berkeley

David Zilberman

Location: 2060 VLSB, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30-11:00 a.m.

Professor: David Zilberman, 337 Giannini Hall.
Office Hours: Thurs., 11-12.

G.S.I.'s:

Guanming Shi: gshi@are.berkeley.edu

Yanhong Jin : jin@are.berkeley.edu

Class website http://are.berkeley.edu/~zilber/EEP101/

Textbooks

Online Text

The detailed notes and lecture summaries will be modified to reflect the revised content of the class.

Course Outline

Lecture 2: When Is a Market Socially Optimal?

Lectures 3-4: Production and Consumption Externalities

Lecture 5: An Economic Model of Positive Externalities

Lecture 6: Coase Theorm and Liability Roles

Lecture 7: Externalities and the Selection of Policy Tools: Other Considerations

Lectures 8-9: Production Externalities and Technology Adoption

Lecture 10: Environmental and Health Risks

Lectures 12-13: Public Goods

Lectures 14-15: Endangered Species, National Parks, and Conservation and Targeting

Lectures 16-17: Valuation of Environmental Benefits

Lecture 18: Key Terms and Components of Dynamic Systems

Lectures 19-20: Dynamic Aspects of Environmental Policies

Lectures 21 -23: Water Allocation and Quality Policies

Lecture 24: Pesticide Economics

Lecture 25: Biotechnology

Lectures 26-27: International Environmental Issues

Lecture 28: Environment and Development

Lecture 29: Review

Grading

50% final, 30% midterm, and 20% homework.

Students may opt to submit a paper. In this case grading is 66% classwork and 34% for the paper.