Since 2000 the European Association of Environmental and Resources Economists (EAERE), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), and Venice International University (VIU) have been successfully running their European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics.
The broader objective of this series of events is to provide advanced training for young researchers from all over Europe and beyond on European issues of environmental and resource economics.
2015 Summer School EAERE-FEEM-VIU
European Summer School on Environmental Regulation
Venice, June 28th- July 4th, 2015
The 2015 Summer School will take place from June 28th- July 4th at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square.
The topic covered by the 2015 Summer School is the economic analysis of environmental regulation.
No restriction is put on methods used - theoretical, econometric and experimental approaches will be covered.
The school will be of interest to those working on topics including (but not limited to) economics of standards, pollution taxes, tradable permits, comparative performance of instruments, Self-regulation, Information-based regulation, disclosure programs and green labeling, Impacts of regulation on R&D and innovation, Enforcement and compliance, Assessing the impact of regulations on behavior, Cost-benefit analysis of actual regulations, International coordination of regulation, Formal analysis of regulatory institutions, Political economy of environmental regulation.
Faculty:
School co-ordinator: Anthony HEYES
Anthony HEYES (School co-coordinator)
University of Ottawa
Topic: Behavioural Environmental Regulation
Stefan AMBEC
Toulouse School of Economics
Topic: Environmental Regulation: Theory
Timo GOESCHL
Heidelberg University
Topic: Environmental Regulation: Experimental Methods
Matthew NEIDELL
Columbia University
Topic: Environmental Regulation: Empirical Methods
Roberton C. WILLIAMS III
University of Maryland
Topic: Market-Based Instruments
Programme - 2015
Summer School The Summer School is designed to last for 6 days and consists of about 35 contact hours and further several hours of scheduled reading and consultation time. The content of the School is a mixture of lectures, student presentations, consultation and reading sessions.
The activities open with a Welcome and Introduction session, in which the Summer School topics are introduced. A general open discussion, where all the lecturers are invited to briefly present their topics, can be organised to facilitate the students to become soon more familiar with the lecturers’ topics.
Each lecturer is expected to give a 3 hours lecture, split into 2 x 1.5 hour sessions. Each student is also expected to make a presentation of about 40 minutes, which include also the time for questions and discussion. Students' papers must be completed and sent to the Summer School Secretariat by the 1st of June, 2015. In order to get prepared to the School, students will receive in advance all the available teaching material and the papers presented by the other participants.
In the reading sessions students can privately take their time to go into what really interest them thoroughly.
During consultation sessions students can privately consult with lecturers. It is up to the students to ask directly to a lecturer for a private meeting. Group consultations can be organised too. Private or group meetings during the consultation time can be held inside the classroom, which remains open until the end of the consultation session, or in any other available space of the VIU Campus such as in the cafeteria, in the beautiful garden surrounding the campus or in the campus' common areas. It is up to the students and lecturers to make the consultation as much formal or informal as they prefer. Also working groups can be organised during the consultation time. We strongly encourage all the students to take most advantage of the consultation time from the very beginning of the School.
Application - 2015 Summer School
Deadlines
All applications must arrive to the Summer School Secretariat by the 1st of February, 2015.
Acceptance notifications will be sent out from the 1st of March, 2015.
Final papers for presentation must be received by the Summer School Secretariat before the 1st of June, 2015.
Accepted applicants that do not respect the following deadlines will not be admitted to the Summer School.