Dr Clare Balboni

Dr Gharad Bryan

This course is available on the MRes/PhD in Economics and MRes/PhD in Economics and Management. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course uses controlled access as part of the course selection process. For information on controlled access courses, including eligibility, application processes, deadlines, and departmental contact details, please refer to the Controlled Access Courses webpage.

For queries contact: econ.mres.phd@lse.ac.uk

The course will cover advanced topics in environmental economics where current research is active. It is intended to introduce research students in economics to the latest research in environmental economics and to serve as an input into the research work of these students.

30 hours of lectures in the Autumn Term.

This course is delivered through lectures totalling a minimum of 30 hours across Autumn Term. Attendance is compulsory.

Students will discuss papers in lectures.

The course combines theory and empirics and has a strong applied focus. There is no textbook for the course. Students will instead be required to engage with academic papers at the frontier of the literature, as well as with historic seminal works.

Continuous assessment (100%) in Autumn Term Week 11.