TEAE05 · 6 credits · Basic level (G1N) · Energi- och miljöteknik, Industriell ekonomi
Resource Theory
Active · next start HT 2026
84%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 13 Jan 2026 · 87 students
82%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 366 students
44%
Harder than 44% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 153 students.
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
82% passed · 366 students
- 84%87
- 79%66
- 88%65
- 82%77
- 79%71
Re-exams
62% passed · 132 students
- 43%7
- 61%18
- 67%12
- 50%18
- 92%12
- 71%14
- 64%11
- 73%15
- 60%10
- 40%15
- Pass the re-exam: 62% (132 students), compared with 82% (366 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 41% (498 students)
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Who takes the course?
- Master of Science in Energy - Environment - Management
- Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering
- Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering
- Master of Science in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
- Master of Science in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
- Master of Science in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering - International
- Master of Science in Engineering Mathematics
- Master of Science in Engineering Mathematics
About the course
Aim
After successful complementation of the course the student should:
- know the basic economic problems and the basic assumptions
- have knowledge of the determinants of demand, supply and prices in a market
- be able to take an economic approach
- have knowledge about the meaning of efficient resource allocation, what conditions in a market that lead to efficient allocation of resources and the conditions that lead to markets not functioning effectively
- have knowledge of resource allocation problems in the environmental field
- be able to explain and understand how different economic and administrative instruments can be used to regulate the functioning of environmental and resource problems
Content
The scarcity problem and the opportunity cost concept demand, supply and equilibrium price, the foundations of welfare theory, property rights and the Coase theorem, public goods, externalities, and the Tragedy of the commonsvarious administrative and economic instruments in the environmental area, as regulations, fees, taxes, subsidies and markets for emission rights
- Examiner
- Pernilla Ivehammar
- Scheduled hours
- 48 h
- Main field of study
- Energi- och miljöteknik, Industriell ekonomi