Program for students attending classes:
Selected topics from the following:
Economics and the Environment. Positive vs. Normative Analysis. Making Societal Choices. Welfare and Markets. Public Goods and Externalities. Decision Making and Environmental Protection. Demand for Environmental Goods. Revealed Preferences: Pollution, Land Prices, and Wages. Revealed Preferences: Defensive Expenditures and Travel Cost. Stated Preferences, Experiments and Referenda. Basic Environmental Regulation. Pricing Emissions. Markets and Property Rights. Voluntary Measures. Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Regulation. Regulation with Adverse Selection. Regulation with Moral Hazard and Dynamics. Risk and Uncertainty. Regulation with Multiple Jurisdictions. Development and Growth. Climate change issues.

Program for non-attending students:
Ambiente ed efficienza: a) i mercati come ostacolo, b) i mercati dei diritti di proprietà come soluzione. Intervento pubblico ed efficienza: gli strumenti economici per l’ambiente. Gli strumenti economici per l’ambiente: confronti e approfondimenti. Altri strumenti economici per l’ambiente: depositi cauzionali e accordi volontari. La gestione delle politiche ambientali: alcuni aspetti problematici.