Peter Kennedy
Professor
Courses for the
Current Academic Year
Fall 2022
Economics
313: Intermediate Microeconomics 2
Economics
500: Microeconomic Analysis
Economics
516: Cost-Benefit Analysis
Spring 2023
Economics
416: Cost-Benefit Analysis
Economics 481: Environmental
Economics 2
Economics 531: Environmental
Economics
Open Access Teaching
Material
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materials may be accessed free-of-charge by any person, and they may be linked
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Analytical Methods for Introductory
Economics (A Review)
Constrained Optimization with Economic
Examples (A Review)
Cost-Benefit Analysis (Course for
Senior Undergraduates & MA Students)
Environmental
Economics (Course
for Senior Undergraduates & MA Students)
Microeconomic Theory (Text for MA
Students)
Research Papers and
Reports
2022
The Adoption of Cleaner
Household Technologies: When is Backfire Welfare-Improving?
2020
But What Does it Mean?
Competition Between Products Carrying Alternative Green Labels When Consumers
are Active Acquirers of Information (with
Anthony Heyes, Sandeep Kapur, Steve Martin and John Maxwell)
2015
Welfare Effects of
Adaptation to Climate Change: Results from a Calibrated Model (with Martin Farnham)
2014
Cooperative
Action on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Distribution of Global Output and
Damage
Adapting to Climate
Change: Equilibrium Welfare Effects for Large and Small Economies (with Martin Farnham)
2013
The Relationship
Between Income Growth and Emissions for a Transboundary Pollutant (with Emma Hutchinson)
2012
Transboundary
Pollution and the Selective Enforcement of Environmental Policy (with Emma
Hutchinson)
2010
Economic Incentives
for a Healthy Diet: A Comparison of Policies in a Canadian Context
Simple Pricing
Schemes for Pollution Control under Asymmetric Information (with Benoit Laplante and Dale
Whittington)
2009
Subsidies for
the Production of Cleaner Energy: Do They Cause Emissions to Rise? (with
Emma Hutchinson and Cristina Martinez)
2008
State
Enforcement of Federal Standards: Implications for Interstate Pollution (with
Emma Hutchinson)
2005
Economic
Progress and Skill Obsolescence with Network Effects (with
Ian King)
2002
Optimal Early
Action on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2001
Increasing
Block Tariffs for Pricing Pollution: An Analytical Framework and Assessment
(with
Benoit Laplante and Dale Whittington)
2000
Environmental
Policy and Time Consistency: Emission Taxes vs. Emissions Trading (with Benoit Laplante)
1999
Learning
About Environmental Damage: Implications for Emissions Trading
Urban
Environmental Problems: The Role for Economic Instruments (with Elayne Yee)
Managing
Biodiversity: Policy Issues and Challenges for Malaysia
1998
Urban
Environmental Problems and Policy Options for Developing Countries
Growth,
Trade and the Environment
1997
Production
Externalities and the Efficiency of Parental Childcare Choices (with Linda Welling)
1995
Performance Pay,
Productivity and Morale
1994
Word-of-Mouth
Communication and Price as a Signal of Quality
Information
Processing and Organization Design
Equilibrium
Pollution Taxes in Open Economies with Imperfect Competition
Pollution
Control: the Role for Publicly Provided Information (with Benoit Laplante and
John Maxwell)
Environmental
Policy and Trade Liberalization under Imperfect Competition
Stochastic Innovation and the Cost of Environmental
Regulation (not available for download)
1993
Relative
Pay Effects in Models of the Labour Market
1992
Industry
Structure and Compliance with Environmental Standards (with Dale Chua and Benoit
Laplante)
1990
The Market Provision
of Club Goods in the Presence of Scale Economies