14.475 Environmental Economics and Government Responses to Market Failure, Spring 2005

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Greenstone, Michael
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Environmental Economics and Government Responses to Market Failure
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Abstract
This course explores the theory behind and evidence on regulatory, tax, and other government responses to problems of market failure. Special emphasis is given to developing and implementing tools to evaluate environmental policies. Other topics include cost-benefit analysis, measurement of the benefits of non-market goods and costs of regulations, and the evaluation of the impact of regulations in areas such as financial markets, workplace health and safety, consumer product safety, and other contexts.
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2005-06
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144322
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
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14.475-Spring2005
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14.475
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economics, environment, public finance, environmental economics, research, causation, pigovian taxes, coasian, bost-benefit analysis, public economics, hedonic method, valuation, housing, health effects, dose-response, avoidance, household production function, locational equilibrium, policy, regulations, double dividend, climate change, development, markets, labor, workplace, safety, advertising, traffic
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