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05-15: Is Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance a Better Way to Reduce Gasoline than Gasoline Taxes?

Ian Parry

05-14: Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity: The State of the Debate

Jeffrey Krautkraemer

05-13: Carbon Mitigation Costs for the Commercial Sector: Discrete-Continuous Choice Analysis of Multifuel Energy Demand

William A. Pizer and Richard Newell

05-12: The Effects of Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation

Robert Norman Stavins

05-10: Forest Certification: Toward Common Standards?

Carolyn Fischer, Roger A. Sedjo, Puja Jawahar and Francisco Aguilar

05-09: Corporate Codes of Conduct: Is Common Environmental Content Feasible?

Ian Parry, Carolyn Fischer, Puja Jawahar and Francisco Aguilar

05-08: Modeling Economywide versus Sectoral Climate Policies Using Combined Aggregate-Sectoral Models

Dallas Burtraw, William A. Pizer, Winston Harrington, James Sanchirico and Richard Newell

05-07: The Environmental Impacts of Electricity Restructuring: Looking Back and Looking Forward

Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer

05-06: Bioeconomic Model of Community Incentives for Wildlife Management Before and After CAMPFIRE

Carolyn Fischer, Thomas Sterner and Edwin Muchapondwa

05-05: Economics of Pollution Trading for SO2 and NOx

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, Alan Krupnick, David A. Evans and Russell Toth

05-04: Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks

Robert Norman Stavins, Andrew Plantinga and Ruben Lubowski

05-03: Companies and Regulators in Emissions Trading Programs

Joseph Kruger

05-02: The Case for Intensity Targets

William A. Pizer

05-01: Cost-Effectiveness of Renewable Electricity Policies

Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer

04-54: Environmental Economics

Robert Norman Stavins

04-53: Should Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards Be Tightened?

Ian Parry, Carolyn Fischer and Winston Harrington

04-48: Past, Present, and Future of Wetlands Credit Sales

Leonard Shabman and Paul Scodari

04-46: The Brownfields Phenomenon: Much Ado about Something or the Timing of the Shrewd?

Kris Wernstedt, Anna Alberini, Lauren Heberle and Peter Meyer

04-45: Emissions Trading with Telecommuting Credits: Regulatory Background and Institutional Barriers

Nelson, Per-Kristian

04-44: A Review of the Literature on Telecommuting and Its Implications for Vehicle Travel and Emissions

Margaret Walls and Elena Safirova

04-43: What Have We Learned from a Recent Survey of Teleworkers? Evaluating the 2002 SCAG Survey

Margaret Walls and Elena Safirova

04-42: Telecommuting and Emissions Reductions: Evaluating Results from the ecommute Program

Margaret Walls and Nelson, Per-Kristian

04-41: Near-Term Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets

Raymond John Kopp

04-38: A Tale of Two Market Failures: Technology and Environmental Policy

Robert Norman Stavins, Adam Jaffe and Richard Newell

04-37: Output-Based Allocations of Emissions Permits: Efficiency and Distributional Effects in a General Equilibrium Setting with Taxes and Trade

Carolyn Fischer and Alan Keith Fox

04-36: Global Compensation for Oil Pollution Damages: The Innovations of the American Oil Pollution Act

James W. Boyd

04-34: Public Disclosure of Industrial Pollution: The PROPER Approach for Indonesia?

Shakeb Afsah, Thomas Sterner and Jorge López

04-32: Project-Based Mechanisms for Emissions Reductions: Balancing Trade-offs with Baselines

Carolyn Fischer

04-30-rev: Environmental Law and Public Policy

Robert Norman Stavins and Richard Revesz

04-28: Can an Effective Global Climate Treaty Be Based on Sound Science, Rational Economics, and Pragmatic Politics?

Robert Norman Stavins

04-27: Fiscal Interactions and the Costs of Controlling Pollution from Electricity

Ian Parry

04-25: Source-Receptor Relationships for Ozone and Fine Particulates in the Eastern United States

Alan Krupnick, Jhih-Shyang Shih, S. Bergin and Armistead Russell

04-24: The EU Emissions Trading Directive: Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls

William A. Pizer and Joseph Kruger

04-23-rev: A Social Scientist's Perspective on the Potential Benefits of the Census of Marine Life

James Sanchirico

04-22: Climate Policy in the United States and Japan: A Workshop Summary

William A. Pizer and Kentaro Tamura

04-21: A Herculean Task? Economics, Politics, and Realigning Government in the Case of U.S. Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellites

Molly Macauley

04-20: Incentive-Based Land Use Policies and Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay

Margaret Walls and Virginia McConnell

04-19: Retrospective Examination of Demand-side Energy-efficiency Policies

Karen Palmer, Richard Newell and Kenneth Thomas Gillingham

04-17: Model, Model on the Screen, What's the Cost of Going Green?

Hadi Dowlatabadi, David Boyd and Jamie MacDonald

04-16: Emissions Trading to Improve Air Quality in an Industrial City in the People's Republic of China

Alan Krupnick, Ruth Greenspan Bell, Richard Morgenstern, Robert Anderson, Piya Abegunawardena, Jeremy Schreifels, Cao Dong, Wang Jinan, Wang Jitian and Steiner Larsen

04-15: Economies of Scale and Technical Efficiency in Community Water Systems

William A. Pizer, Winston Harrington, Jhih-Shyang Shih and Kenneth Thomas Gillingham

04-14: Are Absolute Emissions Better for Modeling? It's All Relative

Carolyn Fischer

04-13: Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions: Does Latency Matter?

Alan Krupnick, Anna Alberini, Nathalie Simon and Maureen Cooper

04-12: Introduction to the Political Economy of Environmental Regulations

Robert Norman Stavins

04-11: Who Pays for Energy Efficiency Standards?

Carolyn Fischer

04-10: Transgenic Trees: Implementation and Outcomes of the Plant Protection Act

Roger A. Sedjo

04-09: Habitat Benefit Assessment and Decisionmaking: A Report to the National Marine Fisheries Service

James W. Boyd, James Sanchirico and Leonard Shabman

04-08: Monopoly Extraction of an Exhaustible Resource with Two Markets

Carolyn Fischer and Ramanan Laxminarayan

04-07: How Trade Politics Affect Invasive Species Control

Michael Margolis and Jason Shogren

04-06: Bang for the Buck: Cost-Effective Control of Invasive Species with Different Life Histories

Michael Margolis, Eric Buhle and Jennifer Ruesink