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02-13-: From Uruguay to Doha: Agricultural Trade Negotiations at the World Trade Organization

Thomas Beierle

02-12-: Does Britain or the United States Have the Right Gasoline Tax?

Ian Parry and Kenneth A. Small

02-11-: The Effects of Potential Land Development on Agricultural Land Prices

Robert Norman Stavins, Andrew Plantinga and Ruben Lubowski

02-10-: Quality Adjustment for Spatially-Delineated Public Goods: Theory and Application to Cost-of-Living Indices in Los Angeles

Spencer Banzhaf

02-09-: Green Price Indices

Spencer Banzhaf

02-06-: The Near-Term Impacts of Carbon Mitigation Policies on Manufacturing Industries

Richard Morgenstern, Jhih-Shyang Shih, Mun Sing Ho and Xuehua Zhang

02-05-: Measuring the Contribution to the Economy of Investments in Renewable Energy: Estimates of Future Consumer Gains

David H. Austin, Molly Macauley, Joel Darmstadter, Jhih-Shyang Shih, Emily Aronow and Tom Bath

02-04: Environmental Management in the Russian Federation: A Next Generation Enigma

Kris Wernstedt

02-03: The Economics of Sustainability: A Review of Journal Articles

Michael A. Toman and John C. Pezzey

02-02-: Technologies for Meeting Future Global Demands for Food

Pierre Crosson and Jock R. Anderson

02-01-: Uncertainty and the Cost-Effectiveness of Regional NOx Emissions Reductions from Electricity Generation

Dallas Burtraw, Ranjit Bharvirkar and Meghan McGuinness

01-62-: Implementing Electricity Restructuring: Policies, Potholes, and Prospects

Karen Palmer, Timothy Brennan and Salvador Martinez

01-61-: Ancillary Benefits of Reduced Air Pollution in the United States from Moderate Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies in the Electricity Sector

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, Alan Krupnick, Michael Toman, Anthony Paul and Cary Bloyd

01-58: Experience with Market-Based Environmental Policy Instruments

Robert Norman Stavins

01-56-: When ENSO Reigns, It Pours: Climate Forecasts in Flood Planning

Kris Wernstedt and Robert Hersh

01-55: The Political Economy of Environmental Policy

Paul Portney and Wallace E. Oates

01-54: A Reconsideration of Environmental Federalism

Wallace E. Oates

01-53: Lessons From the American Experiment With Market-Based Environmental Policies

Robert Norman Stavins

01-51: Biotechnology's Potential Contribution to Global Wood Supply and Forest Conservation

Roger A. Sedjo

01-48-: The Economics of a Lost Deal

Frédéric Ghersi and Jean-Charles Hourcade

01-46: An Economic Assessment of Space Solar Power as a Source of Electricity for Space-Based Activities

Molly Macauley and James Davis

01-44: On the Implications of Technological Innovation for Environmental Policy

Ian Parry

01-42: Financial Responsibility for Environmental Obligations: Are Bonding and Assurance Rules Fulfilling Their Promise?

James W. Boyd

01-41: Externalities, Decreasing Returns, and Common Ownership

R. David Simpson

01-40: Evaluating Dispute Resolution as an Approach to Public Participation

Thomas Beierle and Jerrell Cayford

01-39: "Vertical Market Power" as Oxymoron: Getting Convergence Mergers Right

Timothy Brennan

01-38: National Environmental Policy During the Clinton Years

Robert Norman Stavins, Robert W. Hahn and Sheila Cavanagh

01-36: State-Level Variation in Land-Trust Abundance: Could it Make Economic Sense?

Amy Whritenour Ando and Heidi J. Albers

01-35: A Spatial-Intertemporal Model for Tropical Forest Management Applied to Khao Yai National Park, Thailand

Heidi J. Albers

01-34: Forest Carbon Sequestration: Some Issues for Forest Investments

Roger A. Sedjo

01-33: Gauging the Vulnerability of Local Water Utilities to Extreme Weather Events

Kris Wernstedt and Robert Hersh

01-32: Implementation of Policy Instruments for Chlorinated Solvents: A Comparison of Design Standards, Bans, and Taxes to Phase Out Trichloroethylene

Thomas Sterner and Daniel Slunge

01-31-: Is There a Rationale for Rebating Environmental Levies?

Carolyn Fischer, Alain Bernard and Marc Vielle

01-30-: The Effect of Allowance Allocation on the Cost of Carbon Emission Trading

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, Ranjit Bharvirkar and Anthony Paul

01-29: Regulating Government

Katherine Probst and J. Clarence Davies

01-28: How Large are the Welfare Costs of Tax Competition?

Ian Parry

01-27: Modeling the Costs and Environmental Benefits of Disposal Options for End-of-Life Electronic Equipment: The Case of Used Computer Monitors

Karen Palmer, Molly Macauley, Jhih-Shyang Shih, Sarah Cline and Heather Holsinger

01-26: Can Carbon Sinks be Operational? An RFF Workshop Summary

Michael A. Toman, Suzi Kerr, Roger A. Sedjo, Richard Birdsey, Pekka Kauppi, Ian Noble, Sandra Brown, Olga Krankina and Moura-Costa, Pedro

01-24: Redesigning Food Safety: Using Risk Analysis to Build a Better Food Safety System

Michael Taylor and Sandra A. Hoffmann

01-23: Bacterial Resistance and the Optimal Use of Antibiotics

Ramanan Laxminarayan

01-22: Rebating Environmental Policy Revenues: Output-Based Allocations and Tradable Performance Standards

Carolyn Fischer

01-19: Estimating Carbon Supply Curves for Global Forests and Other Land Uses

Roger A. Sedjo, Brent Sohngen and Robert Owen Mendelsohn

01-18: Multinational Taxation and International Emissions Trading

Carolyn Fischer

01-17: Why Don't Lenders Finance High-Return Technological Change in Developing-Country Agriculture?

Allen Blackman

01-16: A Note on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Production

R. David Simpson

01-15: Advanced Methods for Dose-Response Assessment: Bayesian Approaches—Final Report

James Wilson

01-14: Policy-Induced Technology Adoption: Evidence from the U.S. Lead Phasedown

Suzi Kerr and Richard Newell

01-13: A Neglected Interdependency in Liability Theory

Sandra A. Hoffmann, Warren Schwartz and Dhammika Dharmapala

01-12: How Should Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Finance Its Transportation Deficit?

Ian Parry

01-11: Financial Assurance Rules and Natural Resource Damage Liability: A Working Marriage?

James W. Boyd