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Conference Paper
Environmental protection: a new trade issue
Newsletter
Urban ozone regulations
Working Paper
To trade or not to trade: who participates in RECLAIM?
see Working Paper 96-12
Journal Article
Getting wasted
There are millions of tons of garbage in the Ninth District. This is their story.
Working Paper
Discouraging Federal actions that reduce the value of private property: evaluating procedural and financial approaches
A regulatory taking occurs when a court concludes that a government action has taken private property for a public use without paying just compensation to the owner--a violation of the fifth amendment. Often, the remedy is a monetary award whose value is determined by the court. ; In recent years there has been considerable interest in creating a statutory complement to the constitutional law of takings. Some believe that a statutory scheme, using procedural financial approaches, would discourage federal regulatory activities that reduce the value of privately owned property. The procedural ...
Journal Article
Global warming policy: some economic implications
Many analysts believe that the emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from human activity are contributing to global warming, but the linkage is highly uncertain. The largest such source of these gases is carbon dioxide (CO2) from the growing consumption of fossil fuels. Consequently, the conservation of fossil fuels figures prominently in any strategy to reduce the threat of global warming. Because there is considerable uncertainty about the benefits of reducing CO2 emissions but the costs of conservation can be readily quantified, some analysts have suggested that reducing the emissions ...