PLCY 298 (Section 3)

Risk and Decision Making Under Uncertainty for Policy

Spring 2006



 
Instructor:         Mort Webster Office: Abernathy Hall 217
Course Time:    Wednesday 2:00-4:50 pm Email: mort@unc.edu
Class Location: Hamilton 523
Phone: 843-5010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

I'll be putting this site together gradually over the semester. 
Please check back frequently, or email me if something is missing that I promised would be here.


I. Syllabus

View Syllabus (Word)



II. Readings


 Arrow and Fisher (1974). "Environmental Preservation, Uncertainty, and Irreversibility"

Morgan and Henrion (1990). Uncertainty, Ch. 4 "The Nature and Sources of Uncertainty"  [Handed out in class].

Minh Ha-Duong (1998) "Quasi-option value and climate policy choices" Energy Economics 20 599-620


Morgan and Henrion (1990) Ch. 8 "The Propagation and Analysis of Uncertainty"


Hammersley and Handscomb (1964). Ch. 1 & 3 [Handed out in class].

Applied Probability & Stochastic Processes
Feldman and Valdez-Flores (1996)
Ch. 1: Basic Probability
Ch. 2: Markov Chains
Ch. 3: Simulation
Ch. 4: Markov Processes
Ch. 9: Markov Decision Processes


Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Dani 1997
Introduction
Ch. 1: Stochastic Simulation
Ch. 2: Bayesian Inference
Ch. 3: Approximate Methods of Inference
Ch. 4: Markov Chains
Ch. 5: Gibbs Sampling

Introduction  to Stochastic Processes
Hoel, Port, Stone (1972)
Ch. 3: Markov Pure Jump Processes
Ch. 4: Second Order Processes