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Course document

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Handout Lecture 1

Lecture 2:  Introduction: market failure and externalities

Handout Lecture 2

Lecture 3:  Optimal pollution abatement and the Coase Theorem

Handout Lecture 3

Lecture 4:  Public goods: Information and preference revelation

Handout Lecture 4

Lecture 5:  Market Mechanisms versus Command and Control

Handout Lecture 5

Lecture 6:  Uncertainty and Instrument Choice

Handout Lecture 6

Lecture 7:  The Pigouvian Tax: Further topics

Handout Lecture 9

Lecture 9:  Inter-jurisdictional issues