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10817: The Federal Advisory Committee Act and Public Participation in Environmental Policy

Rebecca J. Long and Thomas C. Beierle

10816: Multinational Taxation and International Emissions Trading

Carolyn Fischer

10815: A Tale of Two Market Failures: Technology and Environmental Policy

Adam Jaffe, Richard Newell and Robert Stavins

10814: Estimating Future Consumer Welfare Gains from Innovation: The Case of Digital Data Storage

David Austin and Molly Macauley

10813: Flood Planning and Climate Forecasts at the Local Level

Kris Wernstedt and Robert Hersh

10812: Instrument Choice for Environmental Protection When Technological Innovation Is Endogenous

Carolyn Fischer, Ian Parry and William Pizer

10811: Pay-At-The-Pump (PATP) Auto Insurance: Criticisms and Proposed Modifications

J. Daniel Khazzoom

10810: Interpreting Sustainability in Economic Terms: Dynamic Efficiency Plus Intergenerational Equity

Robert Stavins, Alexander Wagner and Gernot Wagner

10809: Financial Responsibility for Environmental Obligations: Are Bonding and Assurance Rules Fulfilling Their Promise?

James Boyd

10808: Patents, Spillovers, and Competition in Biotechnology

David Austin

10807: Maquiladoras, Air Pollution, and Human Health in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso

Allen Blackman, Michael B. Batz and David Evans

10806: Model, Model on the Screen, What's the Cost of Going Green?

Hadi Dowlatabadi, David R. Boyd and Jamie MacDonald

10805: Should Fuel Taxes Be Scrapped in Favor of Per-Mile Charges?

Ian Parry

10804: Preventing Monopoly or Discouraging Competition? The Perils of Price-Cost Tests for Market Power in Electricity

Timothy Brennan

10803: The "Regulatory Compact" and Implicit Contracts: Should Stranded Costs Be Recoverable?

James Boyd

10802: State and Federal Roles in Facilitating Electricity Competition: Legal and Economic Perspectives

Timothy Brennan

10801: Tax Deductions, Consumption Distortions, and the Marginal Excess Burden of Taxation

Ian Parry

10800: The Cost-Effectiveness of Conservation Payments

Paul Ferraro and R. David Simpson

10799: Deforestation and Shade Coffee in Oaxaca, Mexico: Key Research Findings

Allen Blackman, Heidi Albers, Beatriz Avalos-Sartorio and Lisa Crooks

10798: The Determinants of Household Recycling: A Material Specific Analysis of Recycling Program Features and Unit Pricing

Robin R. Jenkins, Salvador A. Martinez, Karen Palmer and Michael J. Podolsky

10797: On the Implications of Technological Innovation for Environmental Policy

Ian Parry

10796: The Effects of Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation

Robert Stavins

10795: Marine Protected Areas: Economic and Social Implications

James Sanchirico, Kathryn A. Cochran and Peter M. Emerson

10794: An Economic Assessment of Space Solar Power as a Source of Electricity for Space-Based Activities

Molly Macauley and James F. Davis

10793: Bang for the Buck: Cost-Effective Control of Invasive Species with Different Life Histories

Eric Buhle, Michael Margolis and Jennifer L. Ruesink

10792: A Review of Integrated Pollution Control Efforts in Selected Countries

Robert Hersh

10791: Early Emissions Reduction Programs: An Application to CO2 Policy

Ian Parry and Michael Toman

10790: Sulfur Dioxide Control by Electric Utilities: What Are the Gains from Trade?

Curtis Carlson, Dallas Burtraw, Maureen Cropper and Karen Palmer

10789: Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Change and Renewable Energy

Carolyn Fischer and Richard Newell

10788: Economies of Scale and Technical Efficiency in Community Water Systems

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

10787: 'Green' Preferences as Regulatory Policy

Timothy Brennan

10786: Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on U.S. Water Resources

Kenneth D. Frederick and Gregory E. Schwarz

10785: Fiscal Interactions and the Costs of Controlling Pollution from Electricity

Ian Parry

10784: Redesigning Food Safety: Using Risk Analysis to Build a Better Food Safety System

Michael R. Taylor and Sandra Hoffmann

10783: The Economics of Climate Policy

Charles Kolstad and Michael Toman

10782: Emissions Trading to Improve Air Quality in an Industrial City in the People's Republic of China

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

10781: Regulatory Tailoring, Reliability, and Price Volatility with Stochastic Breakdowns

Howard K. Gruenspecht

10780: Lessons for the Forest Service from State Trust Land Management Experience

Sally Fairfax

10779: Environmental Decentralization in the United States: Seeking the Proper Balance between National and State Authority

Stanley Laskowski, Richard D. Morgenstern and Allen Blackman

10778: Forestry Sequestration of CO2 and Markets for Timber

Roger A. Sedjo and Brent Sohngen

10777: The Economic and Policy Setting of Renewable Energy: Where Do Things Stand?

Joel Darmstadter

10776: Do Lower Prices For Polluting Goods Make Environmental Externalities Worse?

Timothy Brennan

10775: Incentive Payment Programs for Environmental Protection: A Framework for Eliciting and Estimating Landowners' Willingness to Participate

David F. Layton and Juha Siikamäki

10774: Evaluating Regulatory Impact Analyses

Winston Harrington and Richard D. Morgenstern

10773: Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Convergence or Divergence?

Joseph Aldy

10772: Long-Term Stewardship of Contaminated Sites: Trust Funds as Mechanisms for Financing and Oversight

Carl Bauer and Katherine N. Probst

10771: Climate Policy in the United States and Japan: A Workshop Summary

William Pizer and Kentaro Tamura

10770: How Trade Politics Affect Invasive Species Control

Michael Margolis and Jason Shogren

10769: Does the Value of a Statistical Life Vary with Age and Health Status? Evidence from the United States and Canada

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

10768: Retroactive Liability and Future Risk: The Optimal Regulation of Underground Storage Tanks

James Boyd and Howard Kunreuther