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04-05: Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation

Carolyn Fischer and Richard Newell

04-04: Evaluating Regulatory Impact Analyses

Richard Morgenstern and Winston Harrington

04-03: Safe Minimum Standards in Dynamic Resource Problems—Conditions for Living on the Edge of Risk

Michael Margolis and Eric Nævdal

04-02: Emissions Pricing, Spillovers, and Public Investment in Environmentally Friendly Technologies

Carolyn Fischer

04-01: Scarcity and Growth in the New Millennium: Summary

Michael A. Toman, R. David Simpson and Robert Ayres

03-64: The Economic and Policy Setting of Renewable Energy: Where Do Things Stand?

Joel Darmstadter

03-63: Implementing the Efficient Auction: Initial Results from the Lab

Jason Shogren and Michael Margolis

03-62: How Local Governments Structure Contracts with Private Firms: Economic Theory and Evidence on Solid Waste and Recycling Contracts

Margaret Walls

03-61: Meta Analysis in Model Implementation: Choice Sets and the Valuation of Air Quality Improvements

V. Kerry Smith and Spencer Banzhaf

03-60: Land Cover in a Managed Forest Ecosystem: Mexican Shade Coffee

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

03-59: The Costs of U.S. Oil Dependency

Ian Parry and Joel Darmstadter

03-57: Welfare and Distributional Effects of Road Pricing Schemes for Metropolitan Washington, DC

Ian Parry, Winston Harrington, Nelson, Per-Kristian, Elena Safirova, Dave Mason and Kenneth Thomas Gillingham

03-56: Measuring Marginal Congestion Costs of Urban Transportation: Do Networks Matter?

Elena Safirova and Kenneth Thomas Gillingham

03-55: Controlling Ozone and Fine Particulates: Cost Benefit Analysis with Meteorological Variability

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

03-54: Brownfields Redevelopment in Wisconsin: A Survey of the Field

Kris Wernstedt, Robert Hersh and Lisa Crooks

03-53: Brownfields Redevelopment in Wisconsin: Program, Citywide, and Site-Level Studies

Kris Wernstedt and Robert Hersh

03-52: The Brownfield Bargain: Negotiating Site Cleanup Policies in Wisconsin

Kris Wernstedt and Robert Hersh

03-51: ACT Now or Later: The Economics of Malaria Resistance

Ramanan Laxminarayan

03-50: Does Reducing Malaria Improve Household Living Standards?

Ramanan Laxminarayan

03-49: Private Options to Use Public Goods: Exploiting Revealed Preferences to Estimate Environmental Benefits

Robert Norman Stavins, Alexander F. Wagner and Lori Snyder

03-48: Environmental Protection and Economic Well-Being: How Does (and How Should)Government Balance These Two Important Values?

Robert Norman Stavins

03-47: Determinants of Land-Use Change In the United States 1982-1997

Robert Norman Stavins, Andrew Plantinga and Ruben Lubowski

03-46: Fiscal Interactions and the Case for Carbon Taxes over Grandfathered Carbon Permits

Ian Parry

03-44: The Economics of Fuel Economy Standards

Ian Parry, Paul Portney, Winston Harrington and Howard Gruenspecht

03-43: Market-Based Environmental Policies: What Can We Learn from U.S. Experience (and Related Research)?

Robert Norman Stavins

03-42-rev: Carbon Abatement Costs: Why the Wide Range of Estimates?

Carolyn Fischer and Richard Morgenstern

03-41: Forest Carbon Sinks: European Union, Japanese, and Canadian Approaches

Roger A. Sedjo and Masahiro Amano

03-39: Electricity Capacity Requirements: Who Pays?

Timothy Brennan

03-38: Simplified Marginal Effects in Discrete Choice Models

Richard Newell and Soren Anderson

03-37: The Market-based Lead Phasedown

Richard Newell and Kristian Rogers

03-34: Managing Permit Markets to Stabilize Prices

William A. Pizer, Richard Newell and Jiangfeng Zhang

03-33: Understanding the Design and Performance of Emissions Trading Systems for Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Proceedings of an Experts' Workshop to Identify Research Needs and Priorities

Michael A. Toman

03-32: Combining Rate-Based and Cap-and-Trade Emissions Policies

Carolyn Fischer

03-31: Climate Change Catastrophes

William A. Pizer

03-30: Air Pollution Control Policy Options for Metro Manila

Alan Krupnick, Carolyn Fischer, Richard Morgenstern, Jose Logarta and Bing Rufo

03-27: Market Power and Output-Based Refunding of Environmental Policy Revenues

Carolyn Fischer

03-26: 13 + 1: A Comparison of Global Climate Change Policy Architectures

Robert Norman Stavins, Scott Barrett and Joseph E. Aldy

03-25: The Effects of Environmental Regulation On Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing

Robert Norman Stavins, Lori Snyder and Nolan Miller

03-24: State and Federal Roles in Facilitating Electricity Competition: Legal and Economic Perspectives in the Electricity Sector

Timothy Brennan

03-23: The Evolution of NOx Control Policy for Coal-Fired Power Plants in the United States

Dallas Burtraw and David A. Evans

03-22: Discussing the Rules: Electronic Rulemaking and Democratic Deliberation

Thomas Beierle

03-21: Are Emissions Permits Regressive?

Ian Parry

03-20: Water Pollution Taxes: A Good Idea Doomed to Failure?

James W. Boyd

03-19: Science, Politics, and U.S. Forest Law: The Battle over the Forest Service Planning Rule

George Hoberg

03-18: Maquiladoras, Air Pollution, and Human Health in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso

Allen Blackman, Michael Benjamin Batz and David A. Evans

03-16: Environmental Information Disclosure: Three Cases of Policy and Politics

Thomas Beierle

03-15: The Paparazzi Take a Look at a Living Legend: The SO2 Cap-and-Trade Program for Power Plants in the United States

Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer

03-14: Effects of Carbon Policies and Technology Change

Molly Macauley and Jhih-Shyang Shih

03-13: Energy and Economic Development: An Assessment of the State of Knowledge

Michael A. Toman and Barbora Jemelkova

03-12-rev: Clean Technological Change in Developing-Country Industrial Clusters: Mexican Leather Tanning

Allen Blackman and Arne Kildegaard