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10567: Policies to Encourage Recycling and "Design for Environment": What to Do When Markets Are Missing

Paul Calcott and Margaret Walls

10566: Technological Change and the Environment

Adam Jaffe, Richard Newell and Robert Stavins

10565: Environmental Protection and Economic Well-Being: How Does (and How Should) Government Balance These Two Important Values?

Robert Stavins

10564: Delay on the Path to the Endangered Species List: Do Costs and Benefits Matter?

Amy Ando

10563: The Costs of Restrictive Trade Policies in the Presence of Factor Tax Distortions

Ian Parry

10562: Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity: The State of the Debate

Jeffrey A. Krautkraemer

10561: Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks: Econometric Estimation of the Carbon Sequestration Supply Function

Ruben N. Lubowski, Andrew J. Plantinga and Robert Stavins

10560: Valuation and Evaluation: Measuring the Quality of Life and Evaluating Policy

Partha Dasgupta

10559: Climate Change and Forest Sinks: Factors Affecting the Costs of Carbon Sequestration

Richard Newell and Robert Stavins

10558: Like Minds? Two Perspectives on International Environmental Joint Efforts

Ruth Greenspan Bell and Sandor Fulop

10557: Tariff Liberalization, Wood Trade Flows, and Global Forests

Roger A. Sedjo and R. David Simpson

10556: The Impact of Long-Term Generation Contracts on Valuation of Electricity Generating Assets under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Nathan Wilson, Karen Palmer and Dallas Burtraw

10555: Assessing the Constraints and Opportunities for Private-Sector Participation in Activities Implemented Jointly: Two Case Studies from the US Initiative for Joint Implementation

Mark R. Powell, Ronald D. Lile and Michael Toman

10554: The Effects of Environmental Regulation On Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing

Lori D. Snyder, Nolan Miller and Robert Stavins

10553: Efficiency and Political Economy of Pollution Control with Ancillary Benefits: An Application to NOx Control in the Chesapeake Bay Airshed

David Austin, Alan J. Krupnick and Virginia McConnell

10552: How Should Metropolitan Washington, DC, Finance Its Transportation Deficit?

Ian Parry

10551: Definitions of Biodiversity and Measures of Its Value

R. David Simpson

10550: The Value of "Value Pricing" of Roads: Second-Best Pricing and Product Differentiation

Kenneth A. Small and Jia Yan

10549: Restructuring and the Cost of Reducing NOx Emissions in Electricity Generation

Karen Palmer, Dallas Burtraw, Ranjit Bharvirkar and Anthony Paul

10548: Revenue Recycling and the Welfare Effects of Road Pricing

Ian Parry and Antonio Bento

10547: Brownfields Redevelopment in Wisconsin: Program, Citywide, and Site-Level Studies

Kris Wernstedt and Robert Hersh

10546: Monte Carlo Benchmarks for Discrete Response Valuation Methods

Ju-Chin Huang and V. Smith

10545: Clean Technological Change in Developing-Country Industrial Clusters: Mexican Leather Tanning

Allen Blackman and Arne Kildegaard

10544: The Measurement of the Energy Intensity of Manufacturing Industries: A Principal Components Analysis

Jean-Thomas Bernard and Bruno Cote

10543: Catch-Quota Balancing in Multispecies Individual Fishing Quotas

James Sanchirico, Daniel S. Holland, Kathryn Quigley and Mark Fina

10542: Can Power from Space Compete?

Molly Macauley, Joel Darmstadter, John N. Fini, Joel S. Greenberg, John S. Maulbetsch, A. Michael Schaal, Geoffrey S.W. Styles and James A. Vedda

10541: 13 + 1: A Comparison of Global Climate Change Policy Architectures

Joseph Aldy, Scott Barrett and Robert Stavins

10540: Basing Superfund Cleanups on Future Land Uses: Promising Remedy or Dubious Nostrum?

Kris Wernstedt, Robert Hersh and Katherine N. Probst

10539: A Herculean Task? Economics, Politics, and Realigning Government in the Case of U.S. Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellites

Molly Macauley

10538: Green Price Indices

Spencer Banzhaf

10537: Carbon Abatement Costs: Why the Wide Range of Estimates?

Carolyn Fischer and Richard D. Morgenstern

10536: The Effect of Allowance Allocation on the Cost of Carbon Emission Trading

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, Ranjit Bharvirkar and Anthony Paul

10535: El Nino, Ice Storms, and the Market for Residential Fuelwood in Eastern Canada and the Northeastern U.S

Pamela Jagger, William White and Roger A. Sedjo

10534: Innovation, Productivity Growth, and the Survival of the U.S. Copper Industry

John Tilton and Hans H. Landsberg

10533: What We Know About Uninsured Motorists and How Well We Know What We Know

J. Daniel Khazzoom

10532: The Benefits and Costs of Informal Sector Pollution Control: Mexican Brick Kilns

Allen Blackman, Stephen Newbold, Jhih-Shyang Shih and Joseph H. Cook

10531: Do Community Characteristics Determine Environmental Outcomes? Evidence from the Toxics Release Inventory

Seema Arora and Timothy Cason

10530: The Cost of Environmental Protection

Richard D. Morgenstern, William Pizer and Jhih-Shyang Shih

10529: Community Pressure and Clean Technology in the Informal Sector: An Econometric Analysis of the Adoption of Propane by Traditional Mexican Brickmakers

Allen Blackman and Geoffrey J. Bannister

10528: Economic Analysis and the Formulation of U.S. Climate Policy

Michael Toman

10527: Environmental Information Disclosure: Three Cases of Policy and Politics

Thomas C. Beierle

10526: Jobs Versus the Environment: An Industry-level Perspective

Richard D. Morgenstern, William Pizer and Jhih-Shyang Shih

10525: The Complex Interaction of Markets For Endangered Species Products

Carolyn Fischer

10524: Managing Permit Markets to Stabilize Prices

Richard Newell, William Pizer and Jiangfeng Zhang

10523: Are Emissions Permits Regressive?

Ian Parry

10522: The Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Instruments for Environmental Protection in a Second-Best Setting

Lawrence H. Goulder, Ian Parry, Roberton Williams and Dallas Burtraw

10521: The Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change

Richard Newell, Adam Jaffe and Robert Stavins

10520: Determining Project-Based Emissions Baselines with Incomplete Information

Carolyn Fischer

10519: Investment in Electricity Transmission and Ancillary Environmental Benefits

Cary Bloyd, Ranjit Bharvirkar and Dallas Burtraw

10518: Accidents Waiting to Happen: Liability Policy and Toxic Pollution Releases

Anna Alberini and David Austin