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10517: Comparing the Efficiency of Alternative Policies for Reducing Traffic Congestion

Ian Parry

10516: Implementation of Policy Instruments for Chlorinated Solvents: A Comparison of Design Standards, Bans, and Taxes to Phase Out Trichloroethylene

Daniel Slunge and Thomas Sterner

10515: How Do Public Disclosure Pollution Control Programs Work? Evidence from Indonesia

Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman and Damayanti Ratunanda

10514: When Can Carbon Abatement Policies Increase Welfare? The Fundamental Role of Distorted Factor Markets

Ian Parry, Roberton Williams and Lawrence H. Goulder

10513: Dynamics of Spatial Exploitation: A Metapopulation Approach

James Sanchirico and James Wilen

10512: Is There a Rationale for Rebating Environmental Levies?

Alain Bernard, Carolyn Fischer and Marc Vielle

10511: Shade-Grown Coffee: Simulation and Policy Analysis for Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico

Michael B. Batz, Heidi Albers, Beatriz Avalos-Sartorio and Allen Blackman

10510: The Roles of the Environment and Natural Resources in Economic Growth Analysis

Michael Toman

10509: Fiscal Interactions and the Case for Carbon Taxes over Grandfathered Carbon Permits

Ian Parry

10508: Implementing Electricity Restructuring: Policies, Potholes, and Prospects

Timothy Brennan, Karen Palmer and Salvador A. Martinez

10507: Research Frontiers in the Economics of Climate Change

Michael Toman

10506: Market-Based Environmental Policies

Robert Stavins

10505: Efficient Emission Fees in the U.S. Electricity Sector

Spencer Banzhaf, Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer

10504: Science in Sanitary and Phytosanitary Dispute Resolution

Mark R. Powell

10503: Was the NOAA Panel Correct about Contingent Valuation?

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

10502: Modeling Economywide versus Sectoral Climate Policies Using Combined Aggregate-Sectoral Models

William Pizer, Dallas Burtraw, Winston Harrington, Richard Newell and James Sanchirico

10501: Using Emissions Trading to Regulate U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Overview of Policy Design and Implementation Issues

Carolyn Fischer, Suzi Kerr and Michael Toman

10500: Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions: Does Latency Matter?

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

10499: Climate Change Catastrophes

William Pizer

10498: Prices vs. Quantities Revisited: The Case of Climate Change

William Pizer

10497: Public Participation in Environmental Decisions: An Evaluation Framework Using Social Goals

Thomas C. Beierle

10496: The Benefits of Reduced Air Pollutants in the U.S. from Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies

Dallas Burtraw and Michael Toman

10495: CO2 Allowance Allocation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the Effect on Electricity Investors

Dallas Burtraw, Danny Kahn and Karen Palmer

10494: Issues at the Forefront of Public Policy for Environmental Risk: Comments for the American Meteorological Society's Annual Policy Colloquium

Molly Macauley

10493: Land Cover in a Managed Forest Ecosystem: Mexican Shade Coffee

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

10492: A Review of the Literature on Telecommuting and Its Implications for Vehicle Travel and Emissions

Margaret Walls and Elena Safirova

10491: From Uruguay to Doha: Agricultural Trade Negotiations at the World Trade Organization

Thomas C. Beierle

10490: Zoning, TDRs, and the Density of Development

Virginia McConnell, Margaret Walls and Elizabeth Kopits

10489: Companies and Regulators in Emissions Trading Programs

Joseph Kruger

10488: Economics of Pollution Trading for SO2 and NOx

Dallas Burtraw, David A. Evans, Alan J. Krupnick, Karen Palmer and Russell Toth

10487: The Impacts of Marine Reserves on Limited-Entry Fisheries

James Sanchirico and James Wilen

10486: Models Needed to Assist in the Development of a National Fiber Supply Strategy for the 21st Century: Report of a Workshop

Roger A. Sedjo and Alberto Goetzl

10485: Time and the Valuation of Environmental Resources

V. Smith

10484: Reducing Emissions from the Electricity Sector: The Costs and Benefits Nationwide and in the Empire State

Karen Palmer, Dallas Burtraw and Jhih-Shyang Shih

10483: Cost-Effective NOx Control in the Eastern United States

Alan J. Krupnick, Virginia McConnell, Matthew Cannon, Terrell Stoessell and Michael B. Batz

10482: Public Disclosure of Industrial Pollution: The PROPER Approach for Indonesia?

Jorge Garcia Lopez, Thomas Sterner and Shakeb Afsah

10481: Adjusting Carbon Cost Analyses to Account for Prior Tax Distortions

Ian Parry

10480: Can Carbon Sinks Be Operational? RFF Workshop Proceedings

Roger A. Sedjo and Michael Toman

10479: Bacterial Resistance and the Optimal Use of Antibiotics

Ramanan Laxminarayan

10478: Pollution Control in the Informal Sector: The Ciudad Juarez Brickmakers' Project

Allen Blackman and Geoffrey J. Bannister

10477: Retrospective Examination of Demand-Side Energy Efficiency Policies

Kenneth Gillingham, Richard Newell and Karen Palmer

10476: Obstacles to a Doubly Green Revolution

Allen Blackman

10475: The Role of Health Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Decision Making in Selected Countries: An Initial Survey

Janice V. Mazurek

10474: Comparative Risk Projects: A Methodology for Cross-Project Analysis of Human Health Risk Rankings

David M. Konisky

10473: Who Pays for Energy Efficiency Standards?

Carolyn Fischer

10472: Torts and the Protection of "Legally Recognized" Interests

Sandra Hoffmann and Michael Hanemann

10471: Regulating Stock Externalities Under Uncertainty

Richard Newell and William Pizer

10470: Thresholds for Carcinogens: A Review of the Relevant Science and Its Implications for Regulatory Policy

James D. Wilson

10469: Public Support for Pollution Fee Policies for Motor Vehicles: Survey Results

Alan J. Krupnick, Winston Harrington and Anna Alberini

10468: Land Use and Remedy Selection: Experience from the Field - The Abex Site

Janice V. Mazurek and Robert Hersh

10467: A Comparison of Timber Models for Use in Public Policy Analysis

Brent Sohngen and Roger A. Sedjo

10466: Who Changed Delhi's Air? The Roles of the Court and the Executive in Environmental Policymaking

Urvashi Narain and Ruth Greenspan Bell

10465: Is Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance a Better Way to Reduce Gasoline than Gasoline Taxes?

Ian Parry

10464: Enforcing Environmental Regulation: Implications of Remote Sensing Technology

Molly Macauley and Timothy Brennan

10463: The Surge in Oil Prices: Anatomy of a Non-Crisis

John W. Anderson

10462: Analyzing the Economic Impact of Climate Change on Global Timber Markets

Brent Sohngen, Roger A. Sedjo, Robert Mendelsohn and Kenneth Lyon

10461: Does Britain or the United States Have the Right Gasoline Tax?

Ian Parry and Kenneth A. Small

10460: A Reconsideration of Environmental Federalism

Wallace Oates

10459: A Flexible Inventory Model for MSW Recycling

Garrick Louis and Jhih-Shyang Shih

10458: Macroeconomics and Forest Sustainability in the Developing World

Roger A. Sedjo

10457: Externalities, Decreasing Returns, and Common Ownership

R. David Simpson

10456: The Price-Elasticity of Stumpage Sales from Federal Forests

Amy Ando

10455: Non-Market Valuation and the Household

V. Smith and George van Houtven

10454: The 1991 Lead/Copper Drinking Water Rule and the 1995 Decision Not to Revise the Arsenic Drinking Water Rule: Two Case Studies in EPA's Use of Science

Mark R. Powell

10453: Meta Analysis in Model Implementation: Choice Sets and the Valuation of Air Quality Improvements

Spencer Banzhaf and V. Smith

10452: The Architecture and Measurement of an Ecosystem Services Index

Spencer Banzhaf and James Boyd

10451: Fishing Quota Markets

Richard Newell, James Sanchirico and Suzi Kerr

10450: Accidents Waiting to Happen: Liability Policy and Toxic Pollution Releases

Anna Alberini and David Austin

10449: An Analysis of Global Timber Markets

Brent Sohngen, Robert Mendelsohn, Roger A. Sedjo and Kenneth Lyon

10448: How Large Are the Welfare Gains from Technological Innovation Induced by Environmental Policies?

Ian Parry, William Pizer and Carolyn Fischer

10447: Rethinking Scientific Management

Robert Nelson

10446: Earth Science Remote Sensing Data: Contributions to Natural Resources Policymaking

Molly Macauley and Fred M. Vukovich

10445: The Market-based Lead Phasedown

Richard Newell and Kristian Rogers

10444: Eliciting Information on Uncertainty from Heterogeneous Expert Panels: Attributing U.S. Foodborne Pathogen Illness to Food Consumption

Sandra Hoffmann, Paul S. Fischbeck, Alan J. Krupnick and Michael McWilliams

10443: Brownfields Redevelopment in Wisconsin: A Survey of the Field

Kris Wernstedt, Lisa Crooks and Robert Hersh