There are two options for doing a term paper in this course:
If you wish to do option 1, you have to (a) notify me by week 4 and, (b) submit a two-page outline/abstract by week 6. Otherwise you will be required to do option 2
Literature review (due week 13)
You are to pick one of the five topic areas below. You are then to select a minimum of three papers in that topic and do a literature review. This means summarizing a group of papers in the field of environmental economics. Further, you must tie the papers together under some common theme. The literature review will identify the contribution each paper makes in the field. In some cases one or more papers may be an extension of another paper in the review; in other cases, two or more papers may offer a differing view. You may include papers not found in the list below, but you must use at least 3 papers listed below in the topic you chose.
Your paper must be in the following format:
- A well developed introduction discussing, in a general way, why you are reviewing the papers you have chosen.
- Main body of the paper which summarizes the four papers.
- A good conclusion which reiterates the key contribution of each paper, how they may link together, what are their differences, and what can be taken away from your review of all four papers.
Example of a Term Paper (Style and footnote layout)
TOPIC |
Eligible PAPERS for Review |
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[1] Externalities & Property Rights |
. The Exchange and Enforcement of Property Rights
Some Aspects of Property Rights
The structure of a contract and the theory of a non-exclusive resource
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[2] Pigouvian Taxes |
External Diseconomies, Corrective Taxes, and Market Structure
An alternative approach to the analysis of taxation
Depletable Externalities and Pigouvian Taxation
Pigovian Taxes Which Work in the Small-Number Case
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[3] Uncertainty and Standard vs Taxes |
The Use of Standards and Prices for Protection of the Environment
Uncertainty and the Choice of Pollution Control Instruments
Emission Control Policies under Uncertainty
Technology Choice and Environmental Regulation under Asymmetric Information
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[4] Marketable Permits |
Marketable Pollution Permits and Acid Rain Externalities
Market Failure in Incentive-Based Regulation: The case of Emissions Trading
Efficiency in Pollution Control in the Short and Long Runs: A System of Rental Emission
Tradeable Permits for Pollution Control when Emission Location Matters: What have We Learned?
On Marketable Air-Pollution Permits: The Case for a System of Pollution Offsets
Marketable Permits for the Prevention of Environmental Deterioration
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[5] Efficiency and Enforcement |
The Economics of Enforcing Air Pollution Controls
An Empirical Analysis of Economic Strategies for Controlling Air Pollution
Enforcement Costs and Regulatory Reform: The Agency and Firm Response
The Structure of Penalties in Environmental Enforcement: An Economic Analyis
Markets for pollution control when firms are noncompliant
Permanent versus interim regulations: A game-theoretic analysis
Nonpoint pollution control: Inducing first-best outcomes through the use of threats
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. The Exchange and Enforcement of Property Rights Harold Demsetz Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 7, (Oct., 1964), pp. 11-26
Some Aspects of Property Rights Harold Demsetz Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 9, (Oct., 1966), pp. 61-70
Harold Demsetz Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Apr., 1968), pp. 55-65
External Diseconomies, Corrective Taxes, and Market Structure James M. Buchanan The American Economic Review, Vol. 59, No. 1, (1969), pp. 174-177 . Cheung, S.N.S. JLE 1970 pp 49-70
The Use of Standards and Prices for Protection of the Environment William J. Baumol and Wallace E. Oates The Swedish Journal of Economics, Vol. 73, No. 1, Environmental Economics, (Mar., 1971), pp. 42-54
Martin L. Weitzman The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 41, No. 4, (Oct., 1974), pp. 477-491 . An alternative approach to the analysis of taxation Barzel, Y JPE, 84, 1976
Uncertainty and the Choice of Pollution Control Instruments ZVI ADAR AND JAMES M. GRIFFIN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 3, 178-188 (1976)
Emission Control Policies under Uncertainty GIDEON FISHELSON JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 3, 189-197 (1976)
Efficiency in Pollution Control in the Short and Long Runs: A System of Rental Emission Robert A. Collinge and Wallace E. Oates The Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 15, No. 2, (May, 1982), pp. 346-354
An Empirical Analysis of Economic Strategies for Controlling Air Pollution EUGENE P. SESKIN, ROBERT J. ANDERSON JR. AND ROBERT 0. REID JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 10, 112- 124 ( 1983)
On Marketable Air-Pollution Permits: The Case for a System of Pollution Offsets ALAN J. KRUPNICK, WALLACE E. OATES AND ERICVANDEVERG JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 10,233-247 (1983)
Depletable Externalities and Pigouvian Taxation A. MYRICK FREEMAN III JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 11,173-179 (1984)
A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Optimal Number of Firms in a Polluting Industry Robert E. Kohn The Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 18, No. 2, (May, 1985), pp. 347-354
Effluent Regulation and Long-Run Optimality DANIEL F. SPULBE JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 103-116 (1985)
Pigovian Taxes Which Work in the Small-Number Case DONALD WITTMAN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 12, 144-154 (1985)
Marketable Permits for the Prevention of Environmental Deterioration ALBERT M. MCGARTLAND AND WALLACE E. OATES JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 12,207-228 (1985)
The Rate of Emission and the Optimal Scale of the Polluting Firm Robert E. Kohn The Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 19, No. 3, (Aug., 1986), pp. 574-581
The Transferability and Depletability of Externalities PETER J. W. N. BIRD JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 14, 54-57 (1987)
COMMENTS One More Externality Article HENRY M. PESKIN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 15, 380-381 (1988) . One More Externality Article: Reply PETER J. W. N. BIRD JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 15, 382-383 (1988)
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