Seminar "Economic and Policy Aspects of Climate Change"

In this seminar, we investigate suggestions for climate policy and defend them based on recent research in economics and the natural sciences.

The seminar is open to BSc and MSc students (suitable literature is assigned in each case).

Compulsory readings are:

• Nordhaus, William (2019): Climate Change: The Ultimate Challenge for Economics. In: American Economic Review 109 (6), S. 1991–2014.
• Silva, Tiloka de; Tenreyro, Silvana (2021): Presidential Address 2021: Climate-Change Pledges, Actions, and Outcomes. In: Journal of the European Economic Association 19 (6), S. 2958–2991.
• Hassler, John; Krusell, Per; Nycander, Jonas (2016): Climate policy. In: Economic Policy 31 (87), S. 503–558.

Examples for possible topics are:

• Carbon Taxes and CO2 Emissions
• The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata
• The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy
• Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking Revolution
• The Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Climate Clubs: Overcoming Free-riding in International Climate Policy

Course Prerequisites

Prior to attending this seminar, either

BWiWi 3.11: "Konjunktur, Handel und Beschäftigung"
or
MWiWi 2.8: "Dynamic Quantitative Economics"
or
MWiWi 2.8: "International Economics"

Only if you are an exchange student, the course prerequisites do not apply.

Organization

Dates: Friday, 2-6 p.m.

Room: K.12.23

First meeting: Friday, April 8

If you are interested in the seminar, please subscribe to the Moodle course.

The deadline for registration is March, 28 (you can still withdraw from the seminar, but you have to register to the Moodle course until then. The formal registration at the Prüfungsamt follows later).