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Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings

The seminal articles in Environmental Economics collected under one roof! The field of Environmental Economics is more important than ever, with new economics theories quickly becoming government pol

The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies

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In Economists’ Paradise, Lessons for US

Governor Patrick visited Chile this month in an attempt to enhance the state’s collaborations with Latin America in education, clean energy, and biotechnology.

Deterring and Compensating Oil-Spill Catastrophes: The Need for Strict and Two-Tier Liability

The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill highlighted the glaring weaknesses in the current liability and regulatory regime for oil spills and for environmental catastrophes more broadly.

Real-Time Economic Analysis and Policy Development During the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill posed near-term economic risks to the Gulf of Mexico region and raised questions about appropriate policies to mitigate catastrophic oil-spill risks.

How to Stabilize the Housing Market

The central irony of a financial crisis is that while it is caused by too much confidence, borrowing and lending, and spending, it can be resolved only with more confidence, borrowing and lending, and

The World Must Insist that Europe Act

In his celebrated essay “The Quagmire Myth and the Stalemate Machine”, published in 1972, Daniel Ellsberg drew out the lesson regarding the Vietnam war that came out of the 8,000 pages of the Pentagon

What the U.S. Government Can Learn from Business

Whatever late compromise is finally agreed upon in the U.S. debt ceiling debate, the most difficult hurdles for any deficit-reduction effort lie ahead.

Access Pricing, Competition, and Incentives to Migrate From "Old" to "New" Technology

In this paper, we analyze the incentives of an incumbent and an entrant to migrate from an "old" technology to a "new" technology, and discuss how the terms of wholesale access affect this migration.

Collaborative Governance