Course Overview

The purpose of this course is to provide the economic and mathematical knowledge necessary to comprehensively evaluate environmental policies. Students will study microeconomics, macroeconomics, welfare economics, and their applications. In particular, students will learn how to evaluate the impact of public investment and macroeconomic policies on both the economy and the environment and how to make policy decisions.

Learning Achievement

This course aims to develop economical and mathematical knowledge and learn the evaluation methods to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of environmental policy. Topics at this course cover micro, macro and welfare economics, and its application. Students especially learn how to evaluate the impact of public investment and macroeconomic policies on both the economy and the environment, and how to make policy decisions.

Competence

Analytical skills, Ability to solve problems

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

The evaluation is composed of a final exam at the end of the semester and short tests every week.
Only students who submitted at least 70% of the short tests will be evaluated.

Course schedule

Introduction
Definition of socio-economic analysis
Basic knowledge of the “Market”
Surplus and Market equilibrium
Process of Cost-Benefit analysis
Concreate example of Cost-Benefit analysis
Partial Equilibrium and General Equilibrium
Some knowledge of the Input-Output table
Input Coefficient and Leontief inverse matrix
Application of I-O analysis to environmental problems

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Mizunoya Takeshi

Other information

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university