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06-14-rev: Are the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse Gases from Passenger Vehicles Negative?

Ian Parry

06-13: Energy and Carbon Dynamics at Advanced Stages of Development: An Analysis of the U.S. States, 1960–1999

Joseph E. Aldy

06-12: Labor Market Estimates of the Senior Discount for the Value of Statistical Life

W Kip Viscusi and Joseph E. Aldy

06-11: Air Emissions of Ammonia and Methane from Livestock Operations: Valuation and Policy Options

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, Jhih-Shyang Shih and Juha Siikamäki

06-10: Do People Vote with Their Feet? An Empirical Test of Environmental Gentrification

Spencer Banzhaf and Randall Phillip Walsh

06-09: Ascribing Societal Benefit to Environmental Observations of the Earth from Space: The Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR)

Molly Macauley

06-08: Extended Producer Responsibility and Product Design: Economic Theory and Selected Case Studies

Margaret Walls

06-07: Divergence in State-Level Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Joseph E. Aldy

06-06: The Economics of Climate Change

Lawrence H. Goulder and William A. Pizer

06-04: Economics versus Climate Change

William A. Pizer

06-03: Quantifying Siting Difficulty: A Case Study of U.S. Transmission Line Siting

Paul Fischbeck and Shalini P. Vajjhala

06-02: What Are Ecosystem Services?

James W. Boyd and Spencer Banzhaf

06-01: Some Issues at the Forefront of Public Policy for Environmental Risk

Molly Macauley

05-61: Shade-Grown Coffee: Simulation and Policy Analysis for Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico

Allen Blackman, Heidi J. Albers, Michael Batz and Ávalos-Sartorio, Beatriz

05-60: Discrete Choice Survey Experiments: A Comparison Using Flexible Models

Juha Siikamäki and David F. Layton

05-59: Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation

Robert Norman Stavins

05-57: Incentive Payment Programs for Environmental Protection: A Framework for Eliciting and Estimating Landowners' Willingness to Participate

Juha Siikamäki and David Layton

05-55: CO2 Allowance Allocation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the Effect on Electricity Investors

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Daniel Kahn

05-54: Analysis of Flexibility Mechanisms for Quota-Catch Balancing in Multispecies Individual Fishing Quotas

James Sanchirico, Daniel Holland, Kathryn Quigley and Mark Fina

05-53: Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Convergence or Divergence?

Joseph E. Aldy

05-51: Consumer Preference Not to Choose: Methodological and Policy Implications

Timothy Brennan

05-50: Alleged Transmission Undersupply: Is Restructuring the Cure or the Cause?

Timothy Brennan

05-48: Who Changed Delhi's Air? The Roles of the Court and the Executive in Environmental Decisionmaking

Ruth Greenspan Bell and Urvashi Narain

05-47: Macroeconomics and Forest Sustainability in the Developing World

Roger A. Sedjo

05-46: Asset Pricing in Created Markets for Fishing Quotas

James Sanchirico, Richard Newell and Kerry L. Papps

05-45: Making Markets for Development Rights Work: What Determines Demand

Margaret Walls, Virginia McConnell and Elizabeth Kopits

05-44: Climate Policy Design Under Uncertainty

William A. Pizer

05-42: Environmental Decentralization: Seeking the Proper Balance between National and State Authority

Allen Blackman, Richard Morgenstern and Stanley Laskowski

05-39: Deforestation and Shade Coffee in Oaxaca, Mexico

Allen Blackman, Heidi J. Albers, Lisa Crooks and Ávalos-Sartorio, Beatriz

05-38: Adoption of Clean Leather-Tanning Technologies in Mexico

Allen Blackman

05-37: The Impact of Long-Term Generation Contracts on Valuation of Electricity Generating Assets under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Nathan Wilson

05-36: Should Fuel Taxes Be Scrapped in Favor of Per-Mile Charges?

Ian Parry

05-35: Earth Science Remote Sensing Data - Contributions to Natural Resources Policymaking

Molly Macauley and Fred Vukovich

05-34: Age, Health, and the Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions: A Contingent Valuation Survey in Japan

Alan Krupnick, Anna Alberini, Nathalie Simon, Kenshi Itaoka, Makoto Akai and Maureen L. Cropper

05-33: Technology Prizes for Climate Change Mitigation

Richard Newell and Nathan Wilson

05-32: Zoning, TDRs, and the Density of Development

Margaret Walls, Virginia McConnell and Elizabeth Kopits

05-31: Colombia's Discharge Fee Program: Incentives for Polluters or Regulators?

Allen Blackman

05-30: The Ten-Year Rule: Allocation of Emission Allowances in the EU Emission Trading System

Dallas Burtraw, Joseph Kruger, Lars Zetterberg and Markus Åhman

05-29: Do Consumers React to the Shape of Supply? Water Demand under Heterogeneous Price Structures

Robert Norman Stavins, W. Michael Hanemann and Sheila Olmstead

05-28: Climate Policy in the United States and Japan: Prospects in 2005 and Beyond, Workshop Summary

William A. Pizer and Kentaro Tamura

05-27: Economic Uncertainties in Valuing Reductions in Children's Environmental Health Risks

Alan Krupnick, Sandra A. Hoffmann and Wictor Adamowicz

05-26: The Value of Information: A Background Paper on Measuring the Contribution of Space-Derived Earth Science Data to National Resource Management

Molly Macauley

05-25: Allocation of CO2 Emissions Allowances in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Daniel Kahn

05-24: The Incidence of Pollution Control Policies

Ian Parry, Margaret Walls, Hilary Sigman and Roberton Williams

05-23: Reducing Emissions from the Electricity Sector: The Costs and Benefits Nationwide and for the Empire State

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Jhih-Shyang Shih

05-22: The Architecture and Measurement of an Ecosystem Services Index

James W. Boyd and Spencer Banzhaf

05-21: Torts and the Protection of "Legally Recognized" Interests

Sandra A. Hoffmann and W. Michael Hanemann

05-20: From SO2 to Greenhouse Gases: Trends and Events Shaping Future Emissions Trading Programs in the United States

Joseph Kruger

05-18: Poverty and the Environment: Exploring the Relationship between Household Incomes, Private Assets, and Natural Assets

Urvashi Narain, van 't Veld, Klaas and Shreekant Gupta

05-16: Muddling Through while Environmental Regulatory Capacity Evolves: What Role for Voluntary Agreements?

Allen Blackman and Nicholas Sisto