EnvEcon Index

Course:  Tues & Thurs 2-330 in 150 GSPP

Sections: M 9-10A, 2311 Tollman ; W 3-4, 45 Evans; F 11-12P, 61 Evans, F 4-5P, 35 Evans

Rachel Gardner (M-W) and Cai Jing (F)

FINAL EXAM:  MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2008   1230-330P

Quizzes:    September 30 and November 4

Attendance at both of the first two lectures is mandatory.  Students who do not attend will be dropped from the course.

Who, What, When, Where and Maybe Why

Reader and text are at: 

For enrolled students only:  book

The background photo is steamboat geyser in Yellowstone.

Many of the talks are in Microsoft PowerPoint.  A free viewer is available.

http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx

Topics and Notes

  1. Supply and Demand (html version) and Supply and Demand (PowerPoint).  BH2
  2. Elasticity.   Covered in Section..
  3. First Problem set is due September 9
  4. Taxes.  and.  Taxes (powerpoint--very similar but a little longer)
  5. Environmental Taxes--in a comparison of CA and Swedish Environmental Policy
  6. Second Problem set is due September 16
  7. History of Agricultural Policy: An Outline and the better Ag. Policy Talk (powerpoint) 
  8. Look at http://www.ers.usda.gov/Features/FarmBill/ for the current farm bill.  Agricultural Policies ( a list of policies with short explanation of each)  For more info on the Farm Credit System.  Ag Wrapup
  9. A First Look at Market Failures   (covered on 4th class in 2006) (9/11)
  10. Some Air pollution resources:  EPA's description of the Clean Air Act  California Air Almanac Farrell et al on Ethanol
  11. The Stern Review
  12. Budget Constraints and Food Stamps (including graphs from class)    9/16
  13. Consumer Theory I  The Chosen Bundle  PowerPoint Presentation   9/18
  14. Consumer Theory Brief Html
  15. Deriving the Demand Curve 9/23
  16. Problem set 3 due Sept 25  Review Session 9/25  (Quiz 9/30)
  17.   Review Sheet for Quiz 1 
  18. Consumer Surplus and the longer and better powerpoint version  Consumer Surplus BH:5
  19. Revealed Preference--Benefit Estimation BH  6 10/2
  20. Stated Preference--Benefit Estimation  BH 7 (Oct 7 predicted for 2008)
  21. Read "Conservation Reconsidered"  (Use link below to JSTOR--will work from campus IP or you will need to use the library proxy server. (http://proxy.lib.berkeley.edu/).) 
     
     
    John V. Krutilla
     
    The American Economic Review, Vol. 57, No. 4. (Sep., 1967), pp. 777-786.
     
    Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8282%28196709%2957%3A4%3C777%3ACR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V
  22. Emma Aisbett's notes on Krutilla
  23. Isoquants and Techniques(powerpoint.  has Timmer example) BH 8  (10/11/07)
  24. Isoquants to Cost Curves; Regulation and Isoquants (powerpoint)
  25. Clean air act
  26. NYT magazine  April 4, 2004  "Changing all the rules" by Bruce Barcott.  Section 6; Column 1; Magazine Desk; Pg. 38 (New Source Performance Standards)  AEP billion $ Settlement Environmental Defense Fund v. Duke Energy
  27. Conservation Supply curves  (Laitner et al.)
  28. Isoquants, Factor Demand, Deriving Cost
  29. Cost Functions and  Costs and Such Powerpoint BH 9
  30. Fixed Costs, Profits, Bankruptcy FC,Profit, Bankruptcy ppt
  31. Fixed Costs, etc and Profits, Derivation of Supply Curve (powerpoint) BH 10
  32. Problem set 4 due Oct 30
  33. Surplus, Welfare, Environment  (Nov 11 '07)
  34. Review Sheet for Quiz 2   Isoquant Diagram    Quiz Nov 4
  35. Marginal Product (but fundamentally not necessary to the way we presented the firm)
  36. Price and Quantity Regulation: An Isoquant Story (repeats earlier material)
  37. Some Loose Ends (1999)
  38. Allocating Pollution Between Firms (Oct 30 '07)  Nov 13
  39. Ronald Coase  "The Problem of Social Cost" 
  40. Topics list for Test II   Quiz II 06  Quiz II Answer 06
  41. Monopoly  Imperfect Competition  ('07 Nov 6-8) (Max slides one and two)  (Likeley Nov 6)
  42. Problem Set 5 Due Nov 20. 
  43. Pareto Optimality 2007 version Powerpoint Presentation. Includes a proof that CE is PO and Coase Theorem. (Nov 18)
  44. Public Goods   (Nov 20)
  45. Interest Rates and Cost Benefit Analysis.  BH 15 and 16. (Nov 25) also see Interest Rates
  46. Exhaustible Resources  BH 17  Dec 2.
  47. Review Dec 4 and Dec 9.
  48. Forestry and Environmental Laws   (2007 version)  Nov 27  Powerpoint.  (quite long.)
  49. Water Primer  Powerpoint
  50. Competition and Environment 
  51. Garbage and California Recycling
  52. Sustainability Power Point Presentation
  53. Review Sessions:  Dec 5 and Dec 7
  54. Fish and Capital
  55. Notes on International Environment
  56. Energy Administration Web site
  57.  

 

Summary List of Concepts  Review for Final 06  Final Review of 07

Link to Textbook--for class members only.

Sample Exams:  1997 Midterm Exam  1997 Final Exam  2000 Final 2002 Final  2003Final 2004 Exam I Answer to Exam I 04 Quiz    Answers   Quiz 1 2006   Answer   Quiz II 06  Quiz II Answer 06  2006Final 2007Midterm Ans2007

Quiz 2 '04 Ans to Q2 '04

Problem Sets

  1. Problem Set 1   ans
  2. Problem Set 2   ans
  3. Problem Set 3    ans
  4. Problem Set 4    
  5. Problem Set 5     
 

Practice Problems on Cost and Supply(*.pdf) or in.  (word)

Suggested Reading:  Environmental Law and Policy.  James Salzman and Barton Thompson.  On reserve at Moffitt.  (also can be order online from the usual sellers for around $30.)