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10617: Workshop Report: Advancing the Art of Analyzing Risks and Benefits of Dredged Material Management

James D. Wilson

10616: Technology Adoption and Aggregate Energy Efficiency

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

10615: Demand-Side Management Programs Under Retail Electricity Competition

Timothy Brennan

10614: Searching for the Profit in Pollution Prevention: Case Studies in the Corporate Evaluation of Environmental Opportunities

James Boyd

10613: Projecting Productivity Growth: Lessons from the U.S. Growth Resurgence

Dale Jorgenson, Mun Ho and Kevin J. Stiroh

10612: Air Pollution Control Policy Options for Metro Manila

Alan J. Krupnick, Richard D. Morgenstern, Carolyn Fischer, Kevin Rolfe, Jose Logarta and Bing Rufo

10611: Water Pollution Taxes: A Good Idea Doomed to Failure?

James Boyd

10610: Control of Dioxins (and other Organochlorines) from the Pulp and Paper Industry under the Clean Water Act and Lead in Soil at Superfund Mining Sites: Two Case Studies in EPA's Use of Science

Mark R. Powell

10609: The Benefits of Improved Environmental Accounting: An Economic Framework to Identify Priorities

James Boyd

10608: Regulating Industrial Water Pollution in the United States

Winston Harrington

10607: Benefit Transfer as Preference Calibration

V. Smith, George van Houtven and Subhrendu Pattanayak

10606: Foreign Direct Investment in China's Power Sector: Trends, Benefits and Barriers

Allen Blackman and Xun Wu

10605: Should Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards Be Tightened?

Ian Parry, Carolyn Fischer and Winston Harrington

10604: Science, Politics, and U.S. Forest Law: The Battle over the Forest Service Planning Rule

George Hoberg

10603: When ENSO Reigns, It Pours: Climate Forecasts in Flood Planning

Kris Wernstedt and Robert Hersh

10602: Sustainable Decision-making: The State of the Art from an Economics Perspective

Michael Toman

10601: The Use of Economic Incentives in Developing Countries: Lessons from International Experience with Industrial Air Pollution

Allen Blackman and Winston Harrington

10600: Cross-Border Environmental Management and the Informal Sector: The Ciudad Juarez Brickmakers' Project

Allen Blackman and Geoffrey J. Bannister

10599: Innovation Under the Tradable Sulfur Dioxide Emission Permits Program in the U.S. Electricity Sector

Dallas Burtraw

10598: Using Environmental Benefit-Cost Analysis to Improve Government Performance

Robert Farrow and Michael Toman

10597: Strict Liability as a Deterrent in Toxic Waste Management: Empirical Evidence from Accident and Spill Data

Anna Alberini and David Austin

10596: The Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Missing Data

Guido Imbens and William Pizer

10595: Environmental Taxes: Dead or Alive?

Richard D. Morgenstern

10594: Regulating Government

Terry Davies and Katherine N. Probst

10593: Land Use and Remedy Selection: Experience from the Field - The Industri-Plex Site

Kris Wernstedt and Katherine N. Probst

10592: Banking on "Green Money": Are Environmental Financial Responsibility Rules Fulfilling Their Promise?

James Boyd

10591: India's Firewood Crisis Re-examined

Klaas van 't Veld, Urvashi Narain, Shreekant Gupta, Neetu Chopra and Supriya Singh

10590: Read This Paper Later: Procrastination with Time-Consistent Preferences

Carolyn Fischer

10589: Lessons From the American Experiment With Market-Based Environmental Policies

Robert Stavins

10588: Measuring the Contribution to the Economy of Investments in Renewable Energy: Estimates of Future Consumer Gains

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

10587: The Law and Economics of Habitat Conservation: Lessons from an Analysis of Easement Acquisitions

James Boyd, Kathryn Caballero and R. David Simpson

10586: What Are Ecosystem Services? The Need for Standardized Environmental Accounting Units

James Boyd and Spencer Banzhaf

10585: Productivity Trends in the Natural Resource Industries

Ian Parry

10584: Climate Policy Design under Uncertainty

William Pizer

10583: Scrap Tires in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso: Ranking the Risks

Allen Blackman and Alejandra Palma

10582: Optimal Choice of Policy Instrument and Stringency Under Uncertainty: The Case of Climate Change

William Pizer

10581: Competition and Car Longevity

Bruce W. Hamilton and Molly Macauley

10580: Temporal Reliability of Estimates from Contingent Valuation

Richard Carson, Michael Hanemann, Raymond Kopp, Jon A. Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell, Stanley Presser, Paul Ruud and V. Smith

10579: Impacts of Federal Policies and Programs on Wetlands

Pierre Crosson and Kenneth D. Frederick

10578: Public Participation in Environmental Planning in the Great Lakes Region

Thomas C. Beierle and David M. Konisky

10577: Cost Heterogeneity and the Potential Savings from Market-Based Policies

Richard Newell and Robert Stavins

10576: The Chesapeake Bay and the Control of NOx Emissions: A Policy Analysis

Alan J. Krupnick, Virginia McConnell, David Austin, Matthew Cannon, Terrell Stoessell and Brian Morton

10575: Reaching Across the Communication Gulf: Reflections on the Challenges of Environmental Assistance Programs

Ruth Greenspan Bell

10574: The Economics of Technology Diffusion: Implications for Climate Policy in Developing Countries

Allen Blackman

10573: Consumer Preference Not to Choose: Methodological and Policy Implications

Timothy Brennan

10572: Source-Receptor Relationships for Ozone and Fine Particulates in the Eastern United States

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

10571: Forest Carbon Sequestration: Some Issues for Forest Investments

Roger A. Sedjo

10570: Muddling Through while Environmental Regulatory Capacity Evolves: What Role for Voluntary Agreements?

Allen Blackman and Nicholas Sisto

10569: Electricity Capacity Requirements: Who Pays?

Timothy Brennan

10568: Safe Minimum Standards in Dynamic Resource Problems -- Conditions for Living on the Edge of Risk

Michael Margolis and Eric Nævdal