Elective courses
Credits

Description:
The course is an introductory course into the economic assessment of climate change impacts and optimal mitigation and adaptation response. Welfare-economic concepts such as cost-benefit analysis, (inter-generational) discounting, non-market valuation, and different concepts of social welfare are applied to understand the impact of climate change and climate change mitigation on long-term welfare and growth. Since these concepts can be applied to many public policy problems, the course is also an introduction into intertemporal welfare theory and public economics.

Literature:
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Lecturers:
Ottmar Edenhofer

Time & venue:
Lectures: Fridays, 14:00-16:00; tba
Tutotial: Mondays, 10:00-12:00; tba

Exam:
tba