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Economics versus Climate Change

William Pizer

The Economics of Climate Change

Lawrence H. Goulder and William Pizer

Divergence in State-Level Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Joseph Aldy

Extended Producer Responsibility and Product Design: Economic Theory and Selected Case Studies

Margaret Walls

Ascribing Societal Benefit to Environmental Observations of the Earth from Space: The Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR)

Molly Macauley

Do People Vote with Their Feet? An Empirical Test of Environmental Gentrification

Spencer Banzhaf and Randall Walsh

Air Emissions of Ammonia and Methane from Livestock Operations: Valuation and Policy Options

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, Jhih-Shyang Shih and Juha Siikamäki

Labor Market Estimates of the Senior Discount for the Value of Statistical Life

W Viscusi and Joseph Aldy

Energy and Carbon Dynamics at Advanced Stages of Development: An Analysis of the U.S. States, 1960–1999

Joseph Aldy

Are the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse Gases from Passenger Vehicles Negative?

Ian Parry

Do Crises Tear the Fabric of Oil Trade?

Robert Weiner

Adjusting the Value of a Statistical Life for Age and Cohort Effects

Joseph Aldy and W Viscusi

How Can Renewable Portfolio Standards Lower Electricity Prices?

Carolyn Fischer

Transit in Washington, D.C.: Current Benefits and Optimal Level of Provision

Peter Nelson, Andrew Bagliano, Winston Harrington, Elena Safirova and Abram Lipman

How Should Heavy-Duty Trucks Be Taxed?

Ian Parry

The Non-Market Benefits of Nature: What Should Be Counted in Green GDP?

James Boyd

India's Firewood Crisis Re-examined

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

Automobile Externalities and Policies

Ian Parry, Margaret Walls and Winston Harrington

Potential Cost-Effectiveness of Incentive Payment Programs for Biological Conservation

Juha Siikamäki and David F. Layton

Simple Rules for Targeting CO2 Allowance Allocations to Compensate Firms

Karen Palmer, Dallas Butraw and Danny Kahn

Voluntary Environmental Agreements when Regulatory Capacity Is Weak

Allen Blackman, Thomas Lyon and Nicholas Sisto

Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Speculator Herding in the World Oil Market

Robert Weiner

Indexed Regulation

Richard Newell and William Pizer

Siting Renewable Energy Facilities: A Spatial Analysis of Promises and Pitfalls

Shalini Vajjhala

Toward Globalization of the Forest Products Industry: Some Trends

David Bael and Roger Sedjo

Taking up the Slack: Lessons from a Cap-and-Trade Program in Chicago

David Evans and Joseph A. Kruger

Congestion Pricing: Long-Term Economic and Land-Use Effects

Elena Safirova, Sébastien Houde, D. Abram Lipman, Winston Harrington and Andrew D. Bagliano

Grading Estimates of the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulation

Winston Harrington

An Approach to Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management

James Sanchirico, Martin Smith and Douglas Lipton

What Drives Telecommuting? The Relative Impact of Worker Demographics, Employer Characteristics, and Job Types

Margaret Walls, Elena Safirova and Yi Jiang

Long-Term Consequences of Congestion Pricing: A Small Cordon in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush

Elena Safirova, Sébastien Houde, Conrad T. Coleman, Winston Harrington and D. Abram Lipman

Should New Anti-Malarial Drugs be Subsidized?

Ramanan Laxminarayan, Ian Parry, David L. Smith and Eili Klein

Summary of the Workshop to Support Implementing the Minimum 25 Percent Public Benefit Allocation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer

Output and Abatement Effects of Allocation Readjustment in Permit Trade

Thomas Sterner and Adrian Muller

Fiscal and Externality Rationales for Alcohol Taxes

Ian Parry, Ramanan Laxminarayan and Sarah West

Decentralization in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and Lessons for Global Policy

Joseph Kruger, Wallace Oates and William Pizer

The Evolution of a Global Climate Change Agreement

William Pizer

A U.S. Perspective on Future Climate Regimes

William Pizer

Age Differences in the Value of Statistical Life: Revealed Preference Evidence

Joseph Aldy and W Viscusi

The Impact of Delhi's CNG Program on Air Quality

Urvashi Narain and Alan Krupnick

Morbidity Valuation with a Cessation Lag: Choice Experiments for Public- and Private-Goods Contexts in Japan

Kenshi Itaoka, Alan Krupnick, Ava Saito and Makoto Akai

Have Countries with Lax Environmental Regulations a Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries?

Miguel Quiroga Suazo, Thomas Sterner and Martin Persson

Endogenizing Technological Change: Matching Empirical Evidence to Modeling Needs

William Pizer and David Popp

Too Good to Be True? Three Economic Assessments of California Climate Change Policy

Robert Stavins, Judson Jaffe and Todd Schatzki

An International Regulatory Framework for Risk Governance of Carbon Capture and Storage

Shalini Vajjhala, Jenny Gode and Torvanger, Asbjørn

Modeling Endogenous Technological Change for Climate Policy Analysis

Kenneth Gillingham, Richard Newell and William Pizer

Ground Source Heat Pump Systems in Canada: Economics and GHG Reduction Potential

Jana Hanova, Hadi Dowlatabadi and Lynn Mueller

Climate Risk Management and Institutional Learning

Hadi Dowlatabadi and Christina Cook

A Cost-Index Approach to Valuing Investment In "Far Into The Future" Environmental Technology

Molly Macauley and Jhih-Shyang Shih

Land Cover in a Managed Forest Ecosystem: Mexican Shade Coffee

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