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09-07: Improving Flood Insurance and Flood Risk Management: Insights from St. Louis, Missouri

Carolyn Kousky and Howard C. Kunreuther

09-06: A Symmetric Safety Valve

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Danny Kahn

09-04: User Financing in a National Payments for Environmental Services Program: Costa Rican Hydropower

Allen Blackman and Richard T. Woodward

09-03: Climate Change and Risk Management: Challenges for Insurance, Adaptation, and Loss Estimation

Carolyn Kousky and Roger M. Cooke

09-02: Comparing Policies to Combat Emissions Leakage: Border Tax Adjustments versus Rebates

Carolyn Fischer and Alan Keith Fox

09-01: Earth Observations in Social Science Research for Management of Natural Resources and the Environment: Identifying the Contribution of the U.S. Land Remote Sensing (Landsat) Program

Molly K. Macauley

08-54: Understanding Errors in EIA Projections of Energy Demand

Carolyn Fischer, Evan Herrnstadt and Richard D. Morgenstern

08-51: Tradable Permits in Developing Countries: Evidence from Air Pollution in Santiago, Chile

Jessica Coria and Thomas Sterner

08-49: Pricing Strategies under Emissions Trading: An Experimental Analysis

Markus Wråke, Erica Myers, Svante Mandell, Charles A. Holt and Dallas Burtraw

08-48: Agroforestry Price Supports as a Conservation Tool: Mexican Shade Coffee

Avalos-Sartorio, Beatriz and Allen Blackman

08-45: Integrating EJ into Federal Policies and Programs: Examining the Role of Regulatory Impact Analyses and Environmental Impact Statements

Shalini P. Vajjhala, Amanda Van Epps and Sarah Szambelan

08-39: Consumption, Happiness, and Climate Change

Mark A. Cohen and Michael P. Vandenbergh

08-38: Does Disclosure Reduce Pollution? Evidence from India's Green Rating Project

Nicholas Powers, Allen Blackman, Thomas Peyton Lyon and Urvashi Narain

08-37: Impact of Carbon Price Policies on U.S. Industry

Mun Sing Ho, Richard Morgenstern and Jhih-Shyang Shih

08-36: Collusion in Auctions for Emission Permits: An Experimental Analysis

Dallas Burtraw, Jacob Goeree, Charles A. Holt, Erica Myers, Karen Palmer and William Shobe

08-35: Pricing Urban Congestion

Ian Parry

08-33: Is the Benefit of Reserve Requirements in the “Reserve” or the “Requirement”?

Timothy J. Brennan

08-32: Prices versus Quantities versus Bankable Quantities

Harrison Fell, Ian A. MacKenzie and William A. Pizer

08-31: EU-ETS and Nordic Electricity: A CVAR Approach

Harrison Fell

08-30: Land Cover Change in Mixed Agroforestry: Shade Coffee in El Salvador

Allen Blackman, Ávalos-Sartorio, Beatriz and Jeffrey Chow

08-29: Long-Term Risks and Short-Term Regulations: Modeling the Transition from Enhanced Oil Recovery to Geologic Carbon Sequestration

Alexander J. Bandza and Shalini P. Vajjhala

08-28: The Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy: Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit

Dallas Burtraw, Richard Sweeney and Margaret Walls

08-27: “Night of the Living Dead” or “Back to the Future”? Electric Utility Decoupling, Reviving Rate-of-Return Regulation, and Energy Efficiency

Timothy J. Brennan

08-26: A Tax-Based Approach to Slowing Global Climate Change

Joseph E. Aldy, Eduardo Ley and Ian Parry

08-25: Compensation for Electricity Consumers Under a U.S. CO2 Emissions Cap

Anthony Paul, Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer

08-24: Balancing Cost and Emissions Certainty: An Allowance Reserve for Cap-and-Trade

Brian C. Murray, Richard Newell and William A. Pizer

08-23: Managing Costs in a U.S. Greenhouse Gas Trading Program: A Workshop Summary

Marika Tatsutani and William A. Pizer

08-22: Comparing Price and Non-price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation

Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert Norman Stavins

08-20: Issues in Designing U.S. Climate Change Policy

Joseph E. Aldy and William A. Pizer

08-17: How Should Passenger Travel in Mexico City Be Priced?

Ian Parry and Govinda R. Timilsina

08-15: Economic Analysis of a Japanese Air Pollution Regulation: An Optimal Retirement Problem under Vehicle Type Regulation in the NOx–Particulate Matter Law

Kazuyuki Iwata and Toshi H. Arimura

08-14: Determining the Extent of Market and Extent of Resource for Stated Preference Survey Design Using Mapping Methods

Shalini P. Vajjhala, Anna Mische John and David A. Evans

08-13: Evaluating Voluntary Climate Programs in the United States

William A. Pizer, Richard Morgenstern and Jhih-Shyang Shih

08-12: Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens

Forest L. Reinhardt, Robert Norman Stavins and Richard H.K. Vietor

08-11: An Update on the Science of Acidification in the Adirondack Park

Anna Mische John, Dallas Burtraw, David A. Evans, H. Spencer Banzhaf, Alan Krupnick and Juha Siikamäki

08-09: Paving the Way for U.S. Climate Leadership: The Case for Executive Agreements and Climate Protection Authority

Nigel Purvis

08-08: Tradable Rights to Emit Air Pollution

Dallas Burtraw and David A. Evans

08-07: Instrument Choice in Environmental Policy

Ian Parry and Lawrence H. Goulder

08-06: Green Corridors: Linking Interregional Transmission Expansion and Renewable Energy Policies

Shalini P. Vajjhala, Anthony Paul, Richard Sweeney and Karen Palmer

08-04: What Drives Participation in State Voluntary Cleanup Programs? Evidence from Oregon

Allen Blackman, Thomas Peyton Lyon, Kris Wernstedt and Sarah Darley

08-02: Innovation and Diffusion of Environmental Technology: Industrial NOx Abatement in Sweden under Refunded Emission Payments

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08-01: Ex-vessel Pricing and IFQs: A Strategic Approach

Harrison Fell

07-53: Cost-effectiveness of Disease Interventions in India

Jeffrey Chow, Sarah R. Darley and Ramanan Laxminarayan

07-52: Marginal Social Cost Pricing on a Transportation Network: Comparison of Second-Best Policies

Elena Safirova, Sébastien Houde and Winston Harrington

07-51: Spatial Development and Energy Consumption

Elena Safirova, Sébastien Houde and Winston Harrington

07-50: Policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in Tropical Forests: An Examination of the Issues Facing the Incorporation of REDD into Market-Based Climate Policies

Erin C. Myers

07-49: State Efforts to Cap the Commons: Regulating Sources or Consumers?

Dallas Burtraw

07-48: India's Health Initiative: Financing Issues and Options

Anil B. Deolalikar, Dean T. Jamison and Ramanan Laxminarayan

07-47: Carbon Credits for Avoided Deforestation

Roger A. Sedjo and Brent Sohngen

07-46: Electricity Markets and Energy Security: Friends or Foes?

Timothy J. Brennan