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Units: 4-0-8

Theory and evidence on regulatory, tax, and other government responses to problems of market failure. Special emphasis on developing and implementing tools to evaluate environmental policies. Topics include cost-benefit analysis, measurement of the benefits of non-market goods and costs of regulations, and the evaluation of the impact of regulations in areas such as financial markets, workplace health and safety, consumer product safety, and other contexts.

Consult M. Greenstone

Materials from this class are available on OpenCourseWare.