21/01/2020 Tuesday 13:00-14:00 The answers for the questions in the tutorial are on Moodle, look at them. For any questions, ask before Friday to see what you don’t understand. Continuation of lecture slides 2, from slide [30] ish. Notes Lecture 2 – Topic 1: Environmental Pollution (continued) Standards Enforceability of standards as an environmental instrumentContinue reading “L4 Applied Environmental Economics”
Category Archives: Lectures
L2 Microeconomics of Development
24.01.2020 Friday 11:00-12:00 Notes Lecture 2: Household Surveys and Empirical Methods I Examples of some modern household surveys: Indian National Sample Survey (NSS) 1950 Malaysian Family Life Survey 1976-1977 World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) Surveys Work began under Robert McNamara in 1979 The first LSMS surveys were in Peru and Cote d’Ivoire inContinue reading “L2 Microeconomics of Development”
L1 Microeconomics of Development
17.01.2020 Friday 11:00-12:00 I missed this lecture but went over slides before on the 16th of January. I am writing these notes on the 23rd of January before my next lecture in this module. Basics of the Module Assessment What is this Module about The Incidence of Poverty? The Economic Lives of the Poor UsingContinue reading “L1 Microeconomics of Development”
L2 Industrial Economics
21/01/2020 Tuesday 15:00-16:00 Notes Lecture 2 – Monopoly, Price Discrimination Overview Can market forces correct for market power of a monopolist? What should government intervention be? Monopolies and Price Discrimination: a way to extract more consumer surplus Two-part tariff pricing scheme – working through an example What are the welfare effects of price discrimination StandardContinue reading “L2 Industrial Economics”
L3 Applied Environmental Economics
20/01/2020 Monday 15:00-16:00 Lecture continued on lecture slides 2, from slide [14] until [31]. We still have not finished lecture slides 2. Notes Lecture 2 – Topic 1: Environmental Pollution (continued) Recap of lecture slide [14] with emphasis on that we will focus on aspects like creating new (permit) markets. Criteria to Evaluate Pollution InstrumentsContinue reading “L3 Applied Environmental Economics”
L2 Applied Environmental Economics
14/01/2020 Tuesday 13:00-14:00 Information about the upcoming assessment will be posted sometime next week. Students will have about 2 weeks (1,5 weeks really) to do the assignment. Each assignment should be about 1000 words. All problems will be similar to those done in workshops. [So go to the workshop. pls] Started with a continuation ofContinue reading “L2 Applied Environmental Economics”
L1 Industrial Economics
14.01.2020 Tuesday, 15:00 – 16:00 First lecture for Industrial Economics. The lecturer seems fun. She finds a lot of personal examples about how market failures have failed her. She seems to repeat the same thing a few times, which is honestly quite useful in lectures. Did not make notes before the class started. This classContinue reading “L1 Industrial Economics”
L1 Applied Environmental Economics
First lecture of 2020 – 13.01.2020 First lecture on Applied Environmental Economics honestly exceeded my expectations. Not that I had the highest expectations, but it was more interesting than I thought it would be. Partially because of the quality of the lecturer, he is quite engaging. My laptop died halfway through the lecture, so it’sContinue reading “L1 Applied Environmental Economics”