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The course explores advanced financial decisions encountered by corporate managers and demonstrates how financial theory can be applied to address practical, real-world challenges.
This course introduces students to both conceptual foundations and empirical evidence on the economics of climate change, climate policy design, and financial market responses thereto. It seeks to address questions such as: What are the costs and benefits of competing responses to the climate challenge? What roles can/do financial markets play in facing climate risks?
Both environmental change and policies affect the macroeconomy through growth, public finances, trade, and financial stability. This class seeks to enable students to start doing research in environmental macroeconomics. After this class students should be comfortable working with basic environment-macro models both theoretically and quantitatively and should know key frontiers in the literature.
Understanding how the macroeconomy interacts with the climate is essential for both research, firms, and policy design in the 21st century. The goal of this course is to advance students from being consumers to producers of integrated climate-economy models at a level appropriate for writing a Master’s thesis.
This course presents an economic perspective and core tools relevant to the private and public management of sustainability. Covered topics include how to define and measure sustainability, dynamic systems, core trade-offs, and essential tools for both business and policy, such as how to quantify consumer demand for sustainability. Applications include climate, energy, and biodiversity.