Econ 244, Spring 2021
José Víctor Ríos Rull

Times, People and Location

• Instructor: José Víctor Ríos Rull
  
• Zoom for Class. Mon and Wed 2:00-3:20
  
• Office Hours: Zoom for off hrs Mon 1:00-2:00 and by appointment. vr0j@upenn.edu
  
• TA: Yaacov Wittman (Coby) ywittman@sas.upenn.edu, Zoom for Off hrs Wed & Fri, 9-10am.
  
• Canvas
  

Diary of classes They include links to the videos the lectures (except for the first). I verified on Feb 1 that they work.

Syllabus

Slides in Handout format for the main part

Lecture Notes Main part

Handout Climate Change

Gokhale's (2013): Spending Beyond Our Means

Slides for corrective Taxation (Pigou Taxes)

Very Short Description of Generational Accounting

Hassler and Krusell (2015): The Climate and the Economy

Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees Celsius (IPCC)