Important dates:

• Quiz every Wednesday starting September 20, 2023
• Final exam: Date TBD

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Topics covered and readings:

Week 1 - Intro to conflict economics (1.5 hr)

1. Presentation of outline
2. Overview of themes to be covered
3. What is conflict economics (Hotte 2013)
4. Read pp 161-163 in Hotte, L (2013) Environmental conflict and natural resources.

Week 2 - Property rights and conflict (3 hr)

1. Intro completed
2. On the concept of property rights
1. Ownership rights in the French Civil Code
2. The open-access fishery example
3. The property right solution
4. Exclusion, coercion and conflict
5. Case: Police peeping and pirate night action on forbidden oyster beds
3. The transaction costs approach
1. The Pigouvian tax (non)solution
2. The polluting tire factory example