Economics 581

· Syllabus-Part1

· Syllabus-Part2

• Paper Guidelines

• Class Presentations

• Lecture slides:Part I (viewable in Internet Explorer only)
• An Introduction to Externalities and Pigouvian Taxes
• Coase
• Varian
• Marketable Emission Permits
• Monopoly and Pigouvian Taxation
• Standards vs Standards
• Market power and permit markets
• Transaction Costs
• Environmental Benefits of Trading Systems
• Taxes vs. Standards
• Long run optimality
• Nonpoint source pollution-Segerson
• Double dividend
• Nonconvexities
• Empirical studies

• Lecture slides:Part II (viewable in Internet Explorer only)
• Welfare Measurement for Price Changes
• Welfare Measures for Quality Changes
• Defensive Expenditures
• WTP vs. WTA
• Welfare Measurement under Uncertainty
• Single site Recreation Demand Models
• Recreation Demand Models continued
• Discrete Choice Models
• Repeated Nested Logit and Kuhn Tucker Models
• Stated Preference -CVM introduction
• Stated Preference studies - estimation and issue
• Stated Preference studies - reliability and validity

• Paper/Presentation List

• Old Exams
• 1996
• 1995
• Final 2004

• Economist Jokes

• Some other web sites you might want to check out:
• Resources for the Future (RFF)
• Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) (you might consider joining AERE as a student member)
• American Association of Agricultural Economists (AAEA)
• The EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• JSTOR at Iowa State

o Iowa Department of Natural Resources