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2013-1: A Generalized Dynamic Factor Model for Panel Data: Estimation with a Two-Cycle Conditional Expectation-Maximization Algorithm

Nikolaos Zirogiannis and Yorghos Tripodis

2011-3: Who Should Bear the Administrative Costs of an Emissions Tax?

John Stranlund and Carlos Chavez

2011-2: The Endogenous Formation of Coalitions to Provide Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence

David McEvoy, Todd Cherry and John Stranlund

2011-1: Think Before You Tweet: Social Media Best Practices for Undergraduate Business Schools

Donna Spraggon

2010-4: Should We Impose Emissions Taxes That Firms Evade?

John Stranlund

2010-3: An Experimental Analysis of Compliance in Dynamic Emissions Markets

John Stranlund, James Murphy and John Spraggon

2010-2: Controlling Urban Air Pollution Caused by Households: Uncertainty, Prices, and Income

Carlos Chavez, John Stranlund and Walter Gomez

2010-1: Buyer Market Power and Vertically Differentiated Retailers

Shinn-Shyr Wang, Christian Rojas and Nathalie Lavoie

2009-7: Partial Implementation of COOL: Economic Effects in the U.S. Seafood Industry

Siny Joseph, Nathalie Lavoie and Julie Caswell

2009-6: Securing the Border from Invasives: Robust Inspections Under Severe Uncertainty

Joe Moffitt, John Stranlund and Craig Osteen

2009-5: Comparing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Pro-Social Emotions to Enhance Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia

Maria Claudia Lopez, James Murphy, John Spraggon and John Stranlund

2009-4: A Safety Valve for Emissions Trading

John Stranlund

2009-3: Estimation of Treatment Effect of Asthma Case Management Using Propensity Score Methods

Sylvia Brandt, Sara Gale and Ira Tager

2009-2: Life Satisfaction Over Time Among Rural Low-income Mothers

Sheila Mammen, Jean Bauer and Daniel Lass

2009-1: The Earned Income Tax Credit and Rural Families: Differences between Participants and Non-participants

Sheila Mammen, Frances Lawrence, Peter St. Marie, Ann Berry and Suzanne Knight

2008-8: Expanding the Focus of Cost-Benefit Analysis for Food Safety: A Multi-Factorial Risk Prioritization Approach

Julie Caswell

2008-7: The Benefits and Costs of Proliferation of Geographical Labelling for Developing Countries

Sven Anders and Julie Caswell

2008-6: Understanding Persistent Food Insecurity: A Paradox of Place and Circumstance

Sheila Mammen, Jean Bauer and Leslie Richards

2008-5: A Note on Emissions Taxes and Incomplete Information

Carlos Chavez and John Stranlund

2008-4: Does Government Regulation Complement Existing Community Efforts to Support Cooperation? Evidence from Field Experiments in Colombia

Maria Claudia Lopez, James Murphy, John Spraggon and John Stranlund

2008-3: Bankruptcy Risk and Imperfectly Enforced Emissions Taxes

John Stranlund and Wei Zhang

2008-2: The Problem of Maintaining Compliance within Stable Coalitions: Experimental Evidence

David McEvoy, James Murphy, John Spraggon and John Stranlund

2008-1: Imperfect Enforcement of Emissions Trading and Industry Welfare: A Laboratory Investigation

John Stranlund, James Murphy and John Spraggon

2007-12: Labor Supply Decisions of Rural Low-Income Mothers

Sheila Mammen, Daniel Lass and Sharon Seiling

2007-11: Costly Enforcement of Voluntary Environmental Agreements with Industries

David McEvoy and John Stranlund

2007-10: Exogenous Targeting Instruments under Differing Information Conditions

John Spraggon

2007-9: Bankruptcy Risk and the Performance of Tradable Permit Markets

John Stranlund and Wei Zhang

2007-8: A Multi-Factorial Risk Prioritization Framework for Food-Borne Pathogens

Spencer Henson, Julie Caswell, John Cranfield, Aamir Frazil, Valerie Davidson, Sven Anders and Claudia Schmidt

2007-7: Standards-as-Barriers versus Standards-as-Catalysts: Assessing the Impact of HACCP Implementation on U.S. Seafood Imports

Sven Anders and Julie Caswell

2007-6: The Optimal Pricing of Pollution When Enforcement is Costly

John Stranlund, Carlos Chavez and Mauricio Villena

2007-5: Seafood Label Effectiveness in the Amherst Market: A Study of the Quality and Quantity of Point of Purchase Information

James Wagstaff

2007-4: Consumer Demand for Quality: Major Determinant for Agricultural and Food Trade in the Future?

Julie Caswell and Siny Joseph

2007-3: The Effects of ITQ Management on Fishermen’s Welfare When the Processing Sector is Imperfectly Competitive

David McEvoy, Sylvia Brandt, Nathalie Lavoie and Sven Anders

2007-2: Asthma Management Survey of Participants in an Inner City Asthma Intervention

Matthew Sadof and Sylvia Brandt

2007-1: Teaching with Technology to Engage Students and Enhance Learning

Daniel Lass, Bernard Morzuch and Richard Rogers

2006-8: The Effect of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Grocery Prices in New England

Richard Volpe and Nathalie Lavoie

2006-7: The Regulatory Choice of Noncompliance in Emissions Trading Programs

John Stranlund

2006-6: Enforcing ‘Self-Enforcing’ International Environmental Agreements

David McEvoy and John Stranlund

2006-5: On the Production of Homeland Security Under True Uncertainty

John Stranlund and Barry Field

2006-4: Within and Between Group Variation of Individual Strategies in Common Pool Resources: Evidence from Field Experiments

Maria Vélez, James Murphy and John Stranlund

2006-3: Centralized and Decentralized Management of Local Common Pool Resources in the Developing World: Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia

Maria Vélez, James Murphy and John Stranlund

2006-2: Risk Aversion and Compliance in Markets for Pollution Control

John Stranlund

2006-1: Price-Based vs. Quantity-Based Environmental Regulation under Knightian Uncertainty: An Info-Gap Robust Satisficing Perspective

John Stranlund and Yakov Ben-Haim

2005-8: Heterogeneity and Common Pool Resources: Collective Management of Forests in Himachal Pradesh, India

Sirisha Naidu

2005-7: An Investigation of Voluntary Discovery and Disclosure of Environmental Violations Using Laboratory Experiments

James Murphy and John Stranlund

2005-6: Landowner Driven Sustainable Forest Management and Value-Added Processing

David Damery

2005-5: Interaction Between Food Attributes in Markets: The Case of Environmental Labeling

Gilles Grolleau and Julie Caswell

2005-4: What Motivates Common Pool Resource Users? Experimental Evidence from the Field

Maria Vélez, John Stranlund and James Murphy

2005-3: Inspections To Avert Terrorism: Robustness Under Severe Uncertainty

L. Joe Moffitt, John Stranlund and Barry Field

2005-2: Market Power in Direct Marketing of Fresh Produce: Community Supported Agriculture Farms

Daniel Lass, Nathalie Lavoie and Robert Fetter

2005-1: A Laboratory Investigation of Compliance Behavior under Tradable Emissions Rights: Implications for Targeted Enforcement

James Murphy and John Stranlund