AREC783

Environmental Taxation and Regulation

Prerequisite: ECON603 and ECON604; and graduate-level econometrics. Credit only granted for: AREC783 or AREC869W. Formerly: AREC869W. The economics of policies to address environmental externalities. Specific topics include the theory of public goods and externalities, cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of environmental regulations, regulatory instrument choice under uncertainty, environmental policy in an economy with pre-existing tax distortions, monitoring and enforcement of environmental regulations, distributional effects of environmental policy, and regulation of intertemporal externalities.

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.68 between 41 students*

AREC783 Grade Distribution+-05101520253035404550556065707580% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 36.59%
A: 21.95%
A+: 17.07%
B: 2.44%
B+: 7.32%
W: 2.44%
other: 12.2%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.