Frank Vöhringer
EPFL ENAC IA LEURE
BP 2140 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://leure.epfl.ch
Fields of expertise
Climate economics
Environmental economics
Energy economics
Computable general equilibrium modeling
Teaching & PhD
Courses
Ecological economics
This course is an introduction to economic theory applied to environmental issues. It presents the methods used to assess environmental impacts and natural resources as well as environmental regulation instruments. It then broadens the analysis to ecological economics.
Models for applied environmental economics
Mainly based on the discussion of peer reviewed academic papers, the course introduces non economists to the main types of applied models used in environmental economic analysis: linear programming, partial and general equilibrium, game theory, and agent based models.