This course addresses advanced topics in environmental and natural resource economics. It applies tools from microeconomic theory and statistics to analyze a wide array of environmental issues, including energy efficiency programs, conservation initiatives, climate change mitigation, 'green' products and ecolabeling, and the impacts of pollution on human health. BS-ResEc majors can satisfy their Integrative Experience requirement by taking this course plus Res-Econ 394LI and 471.

The second course in the graduate environmental and natural resource economics sequence. Covers advanced topics in the theory of environmental regulation, including dynamic regulation, regulation under asymmetric information, and second-best environmental regulation. Current empirical topics include the analyses of voluntary and information-based approaches to environmental management and emerging approaches to energy conservation.

This is a full year seminar course for our first year graduate students. It includes discussion of resources available on campus for research, grant finding, and career preparation. Additionally we discuss the research process and writing as well as what you need to be doing at each stage of your program in order to be successful.

Foundations of interest rate theory and fundamentals of finance. A problem-solving approach to selected financial applications as they affect microeconomic units such as the individuals, households, and small businesses. Financial planning, spending, credit and saving, investing, taxes, insurance, retirement, and estate planning are examples of the topics that will be examined.

This course covers methods of sample-based estimation and inference. Topics include hypothesis testing for two populations, analysis of variance for comparing three or more populations, simple linear regression, topics in multiple regression, and univariate time-series techniques (if time permits) such as moving averages and exponential smoothing. Statistical software is used for advanced computations. Basic algebra required.

This course covers methods of sample-based estimation and inference. Topics include hypothesis testing for two populations, analysis of variance for comparing three or more populations, simple linear regression, topics in multiple regression, and univariate time-series techniques (if time permits) such as moving averages and exponential smoothing. Statistical software is used for advanced computations. Basic algebra required.

This course covers methods of sample-based estimation and inference. Topics include hypothesis testing for two populations, analysis of variance for comparing three or more populations, simple linear regression, topics in multiple regression, and univariate time-series techniques (if time permits) such as moving averages and exponential smoothing. Statistical software is used for advanced computations. Basic algebra required.

This course covers methods of sample-based estimation and inference. Topics include hypothesis testing for two populations, analysis of variance for comparing three or more populations, simple linear regression, topics in multiple regression, and univariate time-series techniques (if time permits) such as moving averages and exponential smoothing. Statistical software is used for advanced computations. Basic algebra required.

Explores the causes of hunger (chronic undernutrition) from an economic perspective. Focus on how population growth and economic development are increasing demand for food and on the prospects for food production to supply those needs at affordable prices, while sustaining the environment. Discussion in the context of the global economy in which increased trade links even the poorest urban and rural residents in developing countries to market forces. (Gen.Ed. SB, G)

Is housing a right? If housing is a right, then should the government ensure that all persons?regardless of their race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, income, or household size?receive the necessary and sufficient delivery of this public or private good? However, if housing is not a right, then what is the proper role of government in our capitalist society? In this course, we will focus on the development housing policy in the United States and examine the national, state, and local delivery of this public or private good.