AI Governance and Public Policy

Section 1: General overview

  • Lecture 1: Introduction to AI governance

  • Lecture 2: Ethics of AI

  • Lecture 3: AI and public policy

Section 2: Socioeconomic perspective

  • Lecture 4: Data privacy and surveillance

  • Lecture 5: Bias, fairness, and accountability

  • Lecture 6: Global perspectives on AI governance

  • Lecture 7: AI in public services and administration

  • Lecture 8: Law enforcement and AI

  • Lecture 9: AI and social justice

Section 3: Environmental perspective

  • Lecture 10: Regulatory frameworks for AI in environmental policy

  • Lecture 11: AI and public-private partnerships in environmental policy

  • Lecture 12: AI in energy policy and sustainable development

  • Lecture 13: Future directions in AI and environmental policy

  • Lecture 14: AI and intergenerational sustainability

  • Lecture 15: Course review and future directions

Textbooks:

  1. Muller, V. (2022). AI Ethics and Governance: Navigating the Regulatory Landscape. Palgrave Macmillan.

  2. Russell, S., and Norvig, P. (2020). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Pearson Education.

Data Science for Economics

Section 1: Data preparation with R

  • Lecture 1: Introduction to data science

  • Lecture 2: The basics of Python and R

  • Lecture 3: Downloading RStudio and basics of coding in R

  • Lecture 4: Importing packages and getting data into R

  • Lecture 5: Saving output and setting up graphics in R

Section 2: Data preparation with Python

  • Lecture 6: Downloading and basics of coding in Python

  • Lecture 7: Importing packages and getting data into Python

  • Lecture 8: Saving output and setting up graphics in Python

Section 3: Regressions with R and Python

  • Lecture 9: Summary statistics

  • Lecture 10: Scatter plot, box plot and histogram

  • Lecture 11: Probit and logit models

  • Lecture 12: Topics in causal inference

  • Lecture 13: Topics in spatial data science

  • Lecture 14: Topics in Bayesian econometrics

  • Lecture 15: Topics in machine learning

Textbooks:

  1. Wooldridge, J. (2020). Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 7th Edition. CENGAGE.

  2. Angrist, J. and Pischke, J. (2009) Mostly harmless econometrics: An empiricist’s companion. Princeton University Press.

  3. Imai, K. (2017) Quantitative social science: An introduction. Princeton University Press.

Environmental Economics

Section 1: Foundation to Environmental Economics

  • Lecture 1: The environment and economics

  • Lecture 2: Normative and positive economic analysis

  • Lecture 3: Social choice: How much environmental protection?

  • Lecture 4: Efficiency and markets

  • Lecture 5: Market failure: Public goods, public bads and externalities

  • Lecture 6: Making decisions about environmental programs

  • Lecture 7: Demand for environmental goods

  • Lecture 8: Hedonic price methods

Section 2: Regulating Pollution

  • Lecture 9: Regulating pollution

  • Lecture 10: Emission prices and fees

  • Lecture 11: Property rights

  • Lecture 12: Audits, enforcement and moral hazard

  • Lecture 13: Voluntary actions and agreements

Section 3: Advanced Topics

  • Lecture 14: Managing risk and uncertainty

  • Lecture 15: Environment, growth and development

Textbooks:

  1. Kolstad, C. (2011), Environmental economics. New York : Oxford University Press.

Future Design

Section 1: What is Future Design

  • Lecture 1: Introduction to future design

  • Lecture 2: Future design: Combination of three academic disciplines

  • Lecture 3: Future design: From the perspective of economics

  • Lecture 4: Future studies

  • Lecture 5: Scenario planning

  • Lecture 6: Originality of future design

Section 2: Future Design and Sustainable Development

  • Lecture 7: Population growth and well-being

  • Lecture 8: The environment and economics

  • Lecture 9: The quality of the environment

  • Lecture 10: Globalization and the environment

  • Lecture 11: Market failure: Public goods, public bads and externalities

  • Lecture 12: Future failures: Disruption of \(C\) cycle and \(N\) cycle

  • Lecture 13: The economics of biodiversity

  • Lecture 14: The economics of climate change

  • Lecture 15: Environmental goods valuation

Textbooks:

  1. Daniel, K. (2017). Thinking, fast and slow.

Geoeconomics

Section 1: Foundations of geographic data in R

  • Lecture 1: R packages for GIS

  • Lecture 2: Processing shapefiles in R

  • Lecture 3: Basic maps with R

  • Lecture 4: Part 1_spatial data operations

  • Lecture 5: Part 2_spatial data operations

Section 2: Extensions and intermediate techniques in R

  • Lecture 6: Part 1_World map

  • Lecture 7: Part 2_World map

  • Lecture 8: Part 1_Japan regional map

  • Lecture 9: Part 2_Japan regional map

  • Lecture 10: Part 1_United States regional map

  • Lecture 11: Part 2_United States regional map

Section 3: Applications to real-world problems

  • Lecture 12: Part 1_Geospatial data analysis

  • Lecture 13: Part 2_Geospatial data analysis

  • Lecture 14: Part 3_Geospatial data analysis

  • Lecture 15: Part 4_Geospatial data analysis

Textbooks:

  1. Lovelace, R., Nowosad, J., and Muenchow, J. (2019). Geocomputation with R. CRC Press.

  2. Comber, L., and Brunsdon, C. (2020). Geographical data science and spatial data analysis: An Introduction in R. Sage.

International Economics

Section 1: Introduction to International Economics

  • Lecture 1: Basics of international economics

  • Lecture 2: Introduction to international trade

  • Lecture 3: Reasons of international trade

  • Lecture 4: International trade models

Section 2: International Trade Policy

  • Lecture 5: The instruments of trade policy

  • Lecture 6: The political economy of trade policy

  • Lecture 7: Trade policy in developing countries: Part A

  • Lecture 8: Trade policy in developing countries: Part B

Section 3: Open-economy Macroeconomics

  • Lecture 9: Globalization, trade and environment

  • Lecture 10: Macroeconomic analysis of trade balance

  • Lecture 11: National income accounting and the balance of payments

  • Lecture 12: Money, interest rates, exchange rates and the Federal Reserve

Section 4: International Macroeconomic Policy

  • Lecture 13: Economic geography

  • Lecture 14: Developing countries growth, crisis and reform

  • Lecture 15: International trade and biodiversity

Textbooks:

  1. Krugman, P. (2018). International economics: Theory and policy. New York: Prentice Hall.

  2. Krugman, P., Obstfeld, M., and Melitz, M. (2018). International trade: Theory and policy. Boston: Pearson Education

Updated on: 2024-11-15