This course examines how society allocates scarce natural resources and manages waste disposal. It introduces students to empirical studies assessing the environmental impacts of waste on air, water, and soil. Furthermore, the course presents a selective set of numerical methods, empirical strategies, and game theory frameworks applicable to resource and environmental economics.

This course deepens students' knowledge in resource and environmental economics. In particular, this course aims to familiarize students with quantitative thinking and analysis in this field.

Topics in Microeconomics is a course with continuous assessment (PI), therefore attendance is necessary. Two lectures can be missed without excuse, absence in further lectures has to be excused/explained via email. 

This course provides numerical examples to make theoretical concepts operational and supplements them with published articles to illustrate connections to empirical research.

Class participation (10%), presentations (20%), problem sets (30%), final exam (40%).

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Department of Economics, Building D4, 1st floor, Office: D4.1.074 (please note: the main entrance to the department is on the second floor!)

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telephone: +43 (1) 31336-5554

Please attend the first lecture meeting.