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Instructors: Simon Disque; Prof. Dr. Moritz Alexander Drupp
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
English
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: Profilbildungsseminar
Comments/contents:
At the onset of the 21st century, (environmental) economics faces two mega-challenges: On the one hand, the loss of environmental goods and services is widespread and accelerating, while, on the other hand, concerns about economic inequalities become more prevalent in science, policy and society. These two challenges are inter-related: Economic inequality may influence environmental valuation and policy, while environmental policy may affect economic inequality in turn. The two challenges should therefore be studied and treated at the same time. The seminar addresses this interrelation by addressing a number of key issues. For example:
(1) How does distribution of income within a society affect the economic valuation of the environment and nature?
(2) What are individual and societal preferences for a more equal distribution of income and environmental quality?
(3) Who benefits from better environmental quality?
(4) Who bears the costs of environmental policy?
(5) How can environmental policies be designed to take distributional effects into account?
Didactic concept:
- 1. session: Introduction to the seminar, presentation of topics; assignment of topics; hints on writing term papers.
- In-between: Individual work on the topics and creation of an exposé (2-4 pages)
- 2. meeting: Peer-to-peer feedback on the exposés; Further details on the preparation of the term paper, seminar presentation and discussion of another paper
- In-between: Individual work on the term papers, feedback in office hours
- Submission of the term paper (as PDF and Word.docx via e-mail)
- In-between: Creation of the presentation and the discussion of another seminar paper, which will be sent to you by the lecturer on 03.06.2021.
- Block-session: Presentations and discussions
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Preparation for the 1st meeting:
(1) Please prepare a one-sentence statement on: “What do you want to learn in this course?”
(2) If the last number of your student ID – Matrikelnummer – is even, think of an example how economic distribution/inequality affects environmental policy; If it is uneven, think of an example how environmental policy affects economic distribution/inequality. Please write this down, again in one sentence.
(3) Read the suggested literature that we have already uploaded to STINE.
(4) Think about what might be the most interesting and relevant research question on inequality and the environment from your perspective? If you like, you can already start thinking about how one might go about in answering it.
Literature:
- Bento, A.M. (2013). Equity impacts of environmental policy. Annual Review of Resource Economics 5(1), 181-196.
- Drupp, M.A., Kornek, U., Meya, J.N., & Sager, L. (2018). Inequality and the environment: The economics of a two-headed hydra. CESifo Working Paper No 9447. Available at: https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp9447.pdf
- Fullerton, D. (2011). Six distributional effects of environmental policy. Risk Analysis, 31(6): 923-929.
- Piketty, T., & Saez, E. (2014). Inequality in the long run. Science, 344(6186), 838-843.
Additional examination information:
Your term paper as well as the combination of presentation and discussion (Ko-Referat) count equally towards your overall grade.
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