BEPP 401: Economics of Sustainability

TA info

• Name: Rich Ryan
• E-mail: richryan@umich.edu
• Office: Lorch 117

Logistics for office hours

• Times: Thursdays, 4–5:30 pm
• Location: K4520

Please e-mail if you have any questions or need to meet outside of course office hours.

Homework policy

Homeworks are due in class.

Due dates:

1. Tuesday, September 24
2. Tuesday, November 12

Online quizzes

1. Sunday, October 6
2. Sunday, November 24

Exam schedule

• Midterm Exam: October 17, Thursday, in class
• Final Exam: December 17, Tuesday, 4:00–6:00 pm

Review schedule

• Midterm Exam:
  • Review Session: Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 7–9 pm, R4020
  • Slides
  • Office hours: Wednesday, October 16, 1:30–3:30 pm, B4584
• Final schedule
  • Review Session: Thursday, December 12, 2–4 pm, R0230
  • Office hours: Monday, 2:30–3:30 pm, R0226
  • Office hours: Monday, 3:30–4:30 pm, R0218
  • Slides from review session

Resources

While the class is largely self-contained, we may want more background on some of the economics used in the course. Occasionally I may reference material covered in standard microeconomics, macroeconomics, or financial economics courses. I will do so, mostly, by referring to notes that I wrote as a GSI for these classes. These notes are available here:

• Intermediate Microeconomics, ECON 401
• Intermediate Macroeconomics, ECON 402
• Financial Economics, ECON 435

In case you want a more formal take on some of these topics, there are also notes that I used as a GSI for the first-year macro sequence in the Economics PhD program. These notes are indexed here.