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ENERGY ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENT AND POLICY

Lecturer(s)	TAGHIZADEH HESARY, FARHAD
Credit(s)	2
Academic Year/Semester	2024 Spring
Day/Period	Mon.5
Campus	Mita
Class Format	Online classes (mainly real-time format)
Registration Number	17527
Faculty/Graduate School	ECONOMICS
Department/Major	ECONOMICS Type A, B
Year Level	3, 4
Field	MAJOR SUBJECTS PCP (MAJOR SUBJECT SEQUENCE : CLASSES OPEN TO NON-PCP STUDENTS)
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Course Description	The course consists of lectures with examples of real-time energy issues at the local, national and global levels. The classes will mainly focus on the policy side of energy with associated environmental impacts. The aim is to make students more familiar with energy economics, policy, and finance. Moreover, this course aims to familiarize students with renewable energy and sustainable development,
K-Number	FEC-EC-35343-222-07

Course Administrator	Faculty/Graduate School	FEC	ECONOMICS
Course Administrator	Department/Major	EC	ECONOMICS
Main Course Number	Level	3	Third-year level coursework
	Major Classification	5	Major Subjects Course- Advanced Course
	Minor Classification	34	Other - PCP
	Subject Type	3	Elective subject
Supplemental Course Information	Class Classification	2	Lecture
	Class Format	2	Online classes (mainly real-time format)
	Language of Instruction	2	English
Academic Discipline		07	Economics, business administration, and related fields

Course Contents/Objectives/Teaching Method/Intended Learning Outcome

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The course encompasses a wide range of topics and is inherently interdisciplinary. The vision for the class is to foster a participatory learning process. It includes lectures with real-time examples of energy issues at the local, national, and global levels. The primary focus of this class is on the policy aspects of energy and their associated environmental impacts. The goal is to acquaint students with various subjects, including energy economics, energy policy, and energy finance. Additionally, the course aims to familiarize students with topics such as renewable energy, sustainable development, and green finance.

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Textbooks

1- Book title: Handbook of Green Finance: Energy Security and Sustainable Development
Editors: Jeffrey Sachs, Wing Thye Woo, Naoyuki Yoshino and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary
Publisher: Springer (Tokyo)
Publishing date: 2019

2- Book title: Achieving Energy Security in Asia: Diversification, integration and policy implications
Editors: Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino, Youngho Chang and Aladdin Rillo
Publisher: World Scientific (Singapore)
Publishing date: 2019

3- The Handbook of Energy Policy (2023).
Editors: Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary and Dayong Zhang.
Tokyo: Springer

Reference Books

Articles:
1. Taghizadeh-Hesary F., N. Yoshino, Y. Inagaki (2019). Empirical analysis of factors influencing the price of solar modules. International Journal of Energy Sector Management, 13(1): 77-97, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJESM-05-2018-0005

2. Taghizadeh-Hesary F., Yoshino N. (2019). The way to induce private participation in green finance and investment, Finance Research Letters, 31: 98-103, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.04.016

3. Taghizadeh-Hesary, F., E. Rasoulinezhad, N. Yoshino (2019). Energy and Food Security: Linkages through Price Volatility, Energy Policy, 128: 796-806, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.12.043.

4. Taghizadeh-Hesary F., Mortha A., Farabi-Asl H., Sarker T., Chapman A., Shigetomi Y. & Fraser T., Role of energy finance in geothermal power development in Japan, International Review of Economics and Finance (2020), 70: 398-412, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2020.06.011

5. Taghizadeh-Hesary F., Li Y., Rasoulinezhad R., Mortha A., Long A., Lan Y., Zhang Z., Li N., Zhao X., Wang Y. (2022). Green finance and the economic feasibility of hydrogen projects, in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 47(58): 24511-24522 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.01.111.

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