Environmental economics and public policy : selected papers of Robert N. Stavins, 1988-1999 / Robert N. Stavins

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Acknowledgements Pt. I Overview of Environmental Economics and Policy 1 Introduction: A Two-Way Street between Environmental Economics and Public Policy 3 2 How Economists See the Environment 24 3 Environmental Protection: The Changing Nature of National Governance 26 Pt. II Benefits and Costs of Environmental Regulation 4 Is There a Role of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation? 41 5 Environmental Regulation and the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing: What Does the Evidence Tell Us? 45 6 Regulatory Review of Environmental Policy: The Potential Role of Health-Health Analysis 77 Pt. III Environmental Policy Instruments: Normative Analysis 7 Clean Profits: Using Economic Incentives to Protect the Environment 91 8 Economic Incentives for Environmental Protection: Integrating Theory and Practice 104 9 Transaction Costs and Tradeable Permits 109 10 Dynamic Incentives of Environmental Regulations: The Effects of Alternative Policy Instruments on Technology Diffusion 125 11 Correlated Uncertainty and Policy Instrument Choice 146 Pt. IV Environmental Policy Instruments: Positive Analysis 12 Incentive-Based Environmental Regulation: A New Era From an Old Idea? 163 13 The Choice of Regulatory Instruments in Environmental Policy 205 14 What Can We Learn From the Grand Policy Experiment? Lessons from SO[subscript 2] Allowance Trading 260 Pt. V Environmental Technology Innovation and Diffusion 15 The Energy Paradox and the Diffusion of Conservation Technology 283 16 The Energy-Efficiency Gap: What Does It Mean? 315 17 The Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change 322 Pt. VI Causes and Consequences of Land-Use Changes 18 Unintended Impacts of Public Investments on Private Decisions: The Depletion of Forested Wetlands 359 19 Alternative Renewable Resource Strategies: A Simulation of Optimal Use 375 20 The Costs of Carbon Sequestration: A Revealed-Preference Approach 392 Pt. VII Global Climate Policy 21 Policy Instruments for Climate Change: How Can National Governments Address a Global Problem? 411 22 What Has the Kyoto Protocol Wrought? The Real Architecture of International Tradable Permit Markets 448 23 Energy-Efficient Technologies and Climate Change Policies: Issues and Evidence 484 Name index 499 Subject index 505