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03-11: The Role of Economics in Extended Producer Responsibility: Making Policy Choices and Setting Policy Goals

Margaret Walls

03-08: How Well Can Markets for Development Rights Work? Evaluating a Farmland Preservation Program

Margaret Walls, Virginia McConnell and Elizabeth Kopits

03-07: Comparing Alternative Policies to Reduce Traffic Accidents

Ian Parry

03-06: Calculating the Cost of Environmental Regulation

William A. Pizer and Raymond John Kopp

03-05: The Benefits and Costs of Environmental Information Disclosure: What Do We Know About Right to Know?

Thomas Beierle

03-03: Regulating Industrial Water Pollution in the United States

Winston Harrington

03-02: Like Minds? Two Perspectives on International Environmental Joint Efforts

Ruth Greenspan Bell and Sandor Fulop

03-01: Fundamental Economics of Depletable Energy Supply

Michael A. Toman and Jeffrey Krautkraemer

02-71: The Roles of the Environment and Natural Resources in Economic Growth Analysis

Michael A. Toman

02-69-rev: Reserve Site Selection in a Limited-Entry Fishery

James Sanchirico

02-68: Prospects for Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies

Richard Newell and Soren Anderson

02-63: Measuring Ecosystem Service Benefits: The Use of Landscape Analysis to Evaluate Environmental Trades and Compensation

James W. Boyd and Lisa Wainger

02-62: Definitions of Biodiversity and Measures of Its Value

R. David Simpson

02-61: Tax Rules, Land Development, and Open Space

R. David Simpson

02-60: Output-Based Allocation of Environmental Policy Revenues and Imperfect Competition

Carolyn Fischer

02-59: Economic Analysis and the Formulation of U.S. Climate Policy

Michael A. Toman

02-58: Information Programs for Technology Adoption: The Case of Energy-Efficiency Audits

Richard Newell and Soren Anderson

02-57: How Large Are the Welfare Gains from Technological Innovation Induced by Environmental Policies?

Ian Parry, William A. Pizer and Carolyn Fischer

02-55: The Benefits and Costs of Fish Consumption Advisories for Mercury

Alan Krupnick, Meghan McGuinness and Paul M. Jakus

02-54: The Ancillary Carbon Benefits of SO2 Reductions from a Small-Boiler Policy in Taiyuan, PRC

Alan Krupnick, Richard Morgenstern and Xuehua Zhang

02-53: Market Failures in Real-Time Metering: A Theoretical Look

Timothy Brennan

02-52: Technology Adoption and Aggregate Energy Efficiency

William A. Pizer, Raymond John Kopp, Richard Morgenstern, Winston Harrington and Jhih-Shyang Shih

02-51: The U.S. Patent System and Developing Country Access to Biotechnology: Does the Balance Need Adjusting?

Michael Taylor and Jerry Cayford

02-50: Preventing Monopoly or Discouraging Competition? The Perils of Price-Cost Tests for Market Power in Electricity

Timothy Brennan

02-48: A Flexible Inventory Model for Municipal Solid Waste Recycling

Jhih-Shyang Shih and Garrick Louis

02-47: Adjusting Carbon Cost Analyses to Account for Prior Tax Distortions

Ian Parry

02-46: Scrap Tires in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso: Ranking the Risks

Allen Blackman and Alejandra Palma

02-45: Efficient Emission Fees in the U.S. Electricity Sector

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Spencer Banzhaf

02-44: General Equilibrium Benefit Transfers for Spatial Externalities: Revisiting EPA's Prospective Analysis

V. Kerry Smith, Spencer Banzhaf and Randall Phillip Walsh

02-42: Projecting Productivity Growth: Lessons from the U.S. Growth Resurgence

Mun Sing Ho, Dale Jorgenson and Kevin Stiroh

02-38: Optimal Investment in Clean Production Capacity

Carolyn Fischer, Michael Toman and Cees Withagen

02-37: Regulatory Tailoring, Reliability, and Price Volatility with Stochastic Breakdowns

Howard Gruenspecht

02-35-rev: The Organization of Local Solid Waste and Recycling Markets: Public and Private Provision of Services

Molly Macauley, Margaret Walls and Soren Anderson

02-34: Nodal Pricing and Transmission Losses: An Application to a Hydroelectric Power System

Bernard, Jean-Thomas and Chantal Guertin

02-31: The Measurement of the Energy Intensity of Manufacturing Industries: A Principal Components Analysis

Bernard, Jean-Thomas and Bruno Cote

02-30: Unprotected Resources and Voracious World Markets

Jason Shogren and Michael Margolis

02-29: Interpreting Sustainability in Economic Terms: Dynamic Efficiency Plus Intergenerational Equity

Robert Norman Stavins, Alexander F. Wagner and Gernot Wagner

02-28: Multilateral Trade Agreements and Market-Based Environmental Policies

Carolyn Fischer, Sandra A. Hoffmann and Yutaka Yoshino

02-27: Flood Planning and Climate Forecasts at the Local Level

Kris Wernstedt and Robert Hersh

02-26: Marine Protected Areas: Economic and Social Implications

James Sanchirico, Kathryn Cochran and Peter Emerson

02-24: The Health Impacts of Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution from Solid Fuels in Developing Countries: Knowledge, Gaps, and Data Needs

Majid Ezzati and Daniel Kammen

02-23: Determining Project-Based Emissions Baselines with Incomplete Information

Carolyn Fischer

02-22: Mitigating the Adverse Impacts of CO2 Abatement Policies on Energy-Intensive Industries

Lawrence Goulder

02-21: The Complex Interaction of Markets For Endangered Species Products

Carolyn Fischer

02-20: Fishing Quota Markets

Suzi Kerr, James Sanchirico and Richard Newell

02-19: Does the Value of a Statistical Life Vary with Age and Health Status? Evidence from the United States and Canada

Alan Krupnick, Maureen L. Cropper, Anna Alberini and Nathalie Simon

02-17: Monitoring and Enforcement: Is Two-Tier Regulation Robust?

Thomas Sterner and Vinish Kathuria

02-16: Workshop Report: Advancing the Art of Analyzing Risks and Benefits of Dredged Material Management

Robert Wilson

02-15-: The Effect on Asset Values of the Allocation of Carbon Dioxide Emission Allowances

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, Ranjit Bharvirkar and Anthony Paul

02-14-: Investment in Electricity Transmission and Ancillary Environmental Benefits

Dallas Burtraw, Ranjit Bharvirkar and Cary Bloyd