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.
The seminar is open to MSc students.
Important: In this seminar, you can get credits either for a seminar associated with MWiWi 2.8 „Dynamic Quantitative Economics“ or associated with MWiWi 2.5 „International Macroeconomics and Globalization“. Thus, it will be a combined seminar for both modules.
Note: If you studied either MWiWi 2.8 "Dynamic Quantitative Economics" and/or MWiWi 2.5 "International Macroeconomics and Globalization", you can choose from a larger set of topics. As all students, you can choose a topic from the area "Climate Change" (see below for examples). However, if you prefer a seminar topic that is closer to the contents of MWiWi 2.8 or MWiWi 2.5, there will be plenty of options.
Example readings (for the climate change topics) are:
- Metcalf, Gilbert E. 2021. “Carbon Taxes in Theory and Practice.” Annual Review of Resource Economics, 13(1): 245–65.
- Nordhaus, William. 2019. “Climate Change: The Ultimate Challenge for Economics.” American Economic Review, 109(6): 1991–2014.
- Silva, Tiloka de, and Silvana Tenreyro. 2021. “Presidential Address 2021: Climate-Change Pledges, Actions, and Outcomes.” Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(6): 2958–91.
- Andersson, Julius J. 2019. “Carbon Taxes and CO2 Emissions: Sweden as a Case Study.” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 11(4): 1–30.
Examples for possible topics (for the climate change topics) are:
- Carbon Taxes and CO2 Emissions
- The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata
- Distributional Aspects of Carbon Taxes
- The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy
- Climate Clubs: Overcoming Free-riding in International Climate Policy
Course Prerequisites
Ideally, 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" or
- MWiWi 2.5: "International Macroeconomics and Globalization"
Even if you have not attended any modules with us before, you can participate in the seminar (we have suitable literature available).
If you are an exchange student, the course prerequisites do not apply.
Organization
Dates: Thursday, 2-6 p.m.
Room: N.11.16
First meeting: October, 19, 2023
If you are interested in the seminar, please write an email to juessen@wiwi.uni-wuppertal.de (I will put you on our mailing list then).
The deadline for registration (by email) is: Friday, September 15, 2023 (you can still withdraw from the seminar, but you must have contacted me by then. The formal registration at the Prüfungsamt follows later).
