Seminar Environmental Microeconomics: Climate Policy Evaluation

Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Gerster
Shortname: S Env Micro: Climate
Course No.: 03.897.2939
Course Type: Hauptseminar

Requirements / organisational issues

Participants should have a solid background in microeconometric methods.

Recommended reading list

Basic Literature
The following books cover the econometric methods that are most commonly used in empirical evaluation of climate policies.

Angrist, Joshua D. & Jörn-Steffen Pischke (2009): „Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion“, Princeton University Press.

Cunningham, S. (2021). "Causal Inference: The Mixtape". Yale University Press.

Imbens, G. W., & Wooldridge, J. M. (2009). "Recent developments in the econometrics of program evaluation." Journal of Economic Literature, 47(1), 5-86.

Contents

The seminar will focus on papers that causally evaluate the impact of climate policies on environmental and economic outcomes. Covered topics will be, amongst others, carbon pricing, emissions trading, the subsidization of energy efficiency, and the imposition of energy efficiency standards. Topics will be assigned in the first meeting. The presentations of the seminar papers will be given on two consecutive days towards the end of the semester.

Dates

Date (Day of the week) Time Location
04/16/2025 (Wednesday) 10:15 - 11:45 01 114 RW 5
1226 - Haus Recht und Wirtschaft I
05/21/2025 (Wednesday) 10:15 - 11:45 01 126 (unnamed), Rewi II office building
06/23/2025 (Monday) 09:00 - 16:00 01 130 RW 6
1226 - Haus Recht und Wirtschaft I
06/24/2025 (Tuesday) 09:00 - 16:00 00 341 HS VII
1121 - Haus Recht und Wirtschaft II