Teaching

Graff Zivin teaches masters-level courses at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and a PhD course in Economics. His recent offerings include the following:

GPEC 488: Environmental and Regulatory Economics (Masters)

Regulation in one of the principal activities of any government and one that touches every single citizen.  When well designed, regulation can promote health and safety while promoting innovation and prosperity.  Executed poorly, it can retard economic growth and generate a plethora of unintended consequences.  This course will provide students with a basic understanding of market failures, the economics of regulation, and its distributional consequences.  The course will be grounded in microeconomic theory and its interface with public policy, with a particular focus on environmental applications.

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GPCO 482: Economies of the Pacific Rim (Executive Masters)

The 21st Century has been dubbed the Pacific Century to reflect the increasing economic influence of the Asia-Pacific region as a key player in innovation, trade, and global supply chains.  This course provides executive masters students with core analytical tools in economics to understand issues related to the Pacific Rim Economies.  A particular emphasis is placed on the economics of markets, regulation, trade, and policy evaluation.

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Economics 267: The Economics of Pollution (PhD)

The recognition that environmental factors can affect human well-being can be traced at least as far back as the thirteenth century when the King of England banned the burning of sea-coal in London because it was “prejudicial to health”. Today, nearly every country in the world regulates the environment to some degree, and pollution is a canonical example of both externalities and public goods in microeconomic textbooks.  This course examines the economics of pollution and its impacts on health, human capital, and economic development.  The emphasis is largely empirical, with a focus on the key estimation challenges that characterize this literature. It is designed to appeal to PhD students in economics within the environmental, public, labor, and development fields.

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