ENVECON 147: The Economics of the Clean Energy Transition
The most promising path to deep decarbonization involves decarbonizing the electricity sector and then electrifying as much as we can – from transportation to buildings to industrial processes. This transition will require not only technological innovation, but also energy market reforms, climate policy interventions, and regulatory innovation to ensure that the process is fair, equitable, and affordable. This course draws from several fields of economics— environmental economics, energy economics, public economics, behavioral economics, and industrial organization — to help students understand how economic ideas and models can usefully inform and direct our response to climate change.
ARE 264: Empirical Environmental and Energy Economics
This course is designed to help prepare Ph.D. students to conduct empirical research in energy and environmental economics (EEE). The course builds on material covered in ARE 212 and 213. It is a companion course to ARE 261. The course has two broad objectives. The first is to develop an in-depth understanding of empirical methods and research designs commonly used in the field of energy and environmental economics. The second is to familiarize students with important empirical findings and lines of inquiry at the frontier of EEE.