题目：Market-based instruments to improve the environment
主讲人：Paul Burke博士（澳大利亚国立大学 ）
时间：2013年11月2日（星期六）上午8:00
地点：主楼345会议室
主讲人简介：
Dr Paul Burke, a Research Fellow at the Australian National University, works on the economics of energy, transport, the environment, and developing countries. He has published in leading journals including Nature Climate Change and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. His ongoing work includes examining the factors affecting household energy choices, the economics of road safety, measures of sustainability, and China’s energy system. Paul was formerly an economist with Mekong Economics Ltd conducting research and project management for the World Bank and other aid donors. Paul is a frequent contributor to the Australian policy debate on economic approaches to environmental challenges and is highly regarded for getting to the heart of the key economic and public policy issues that matter to policymakers.
内容简介：
Market-based instruments such as emissions trading schemes and emissions taxes offer the exciting potential to achieve cost-effective improvements in the environment. This lecture will review how market mechanisms work and the environmental and economic advantages they offer over regulatory and other approaches to improving the environment. The class will also address a number of design principles relating to market-based instruments. International examples and case studies will be used, and lessons for China’s current efforts to expand the use of market-based instruments will be discussed. The lecture will be highly interactive.