Regulators in Southern California have proposed an ambitious new plan designed to bring
the area into compliance with federal air quality standards. The plan's costs to California's …

This paper considers whether the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
(JEEM) has had impact on the development and applications of the methods used to …

Almost since its inception, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been using
analytical techniques related to the concept of balancing benefits and costs. As a result of …

Benefit-cost analysis is required for many regulatory decisions in the United States and in
other countries. In this paper, I examine a standard textbook model that is used in benefit …

Policy makers and policy analysts in the environmental realm are frequently faced with
situations where it is unclear whether market-based instruments hold real promise of …

1 Background The earliest use of benefit–cost analysis (BCA) within the US Federal
government began in the 1930s when large public works projects, such as hydro-electric …

Contingent valuation (CV) has become one of the most widely usednon-market valuation
techniques. CV's prominence is due to itsflexibility and ability to estimate total value …

Heightened concern over the economic impact of these regulations has fostered increased
caution about the regulatory burdens placed upon businesses and individuals. More than a …

This paper takes issue with the Porter-van der Linde claim that traditional benefit-cost
analysis is a fundamental misrepresentation of the environmental problem. They contend …

Over the last decade, market-based incentives have become the regulatory tool of choice
when trying to solve difficult environmental problems. Evidence of their dominance can be …