Publications by Year: 2002

2002
Stavins, Robert N. “Affordability Criteria for Small Drinking Water Systems.” Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, 2002. sab_report_on_affordability.pdf

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Stavins, Robert N. “A Better Way to Regulate Fishing.” The Boston Globe (2002). op-ed_on_itqs_in_boston_globe_dec_2_2002.pdf

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Stavins, Robert N. “Brayton Point Power Plant: Weigh Costs to Benefit.” Boston Business Journal (2002). Publisher's Version boston_business_journal.june22.2002.op-ed.pdf

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Goulder, Lawrence H, and Robert N Stavins. “Discounting: An eye on the future.” Nature 419 (2002): 673–674. Publisher's VersionAbstract

Nature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style journal that publishes full-length research papers in all disciplines of science, as well as News and Views, reviews, news, features, commentaries, web focuses and more, covering all branches of science and how science impacts upon all aspects of society and life.

an_eye_on_the_future_nature.pdf

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Plantinga, Andrew J, Ruben N Lubowski, and Robert N Stavins. “The Effects of Potential Land Development on Agricultural Land Prices.” Journal of Urban Economics 52 (2002): 561–581. Publisher's VersionAbstract

We conduct a national-scale analysis of the determinants of agricultural land values. The theoretical basis for the study is a spatial city model with stochastic returns to future land development. The empirical model of agricultural land prices is estimated with a cross-section on approximately three thousand counties in the contiguous US. The results provide evidence that option values associated with irreversible and uncertain land development are capitalized into current farmland values. For each county, we decompose the current agricultural land value into components measuring rents from agricultural production and rents from future land development.

journal_of_urban_economics_2002.pdf

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Jaffe, Adam B, Richard G Newell, and Robert N Stavins. “Environmental Policy and Technological Change.” Environmental and Resource Economics 22 (2002): 41–70. Publisher's VersionAbstract

The relationship between technological changeand environmental policy has receivedincreasing attention from scholars and policymakers alike over the past ten years. This ispartly because the environmental impacts ofsocial activity are significantly affected bytechnological change, and partly becauseenvironmental policy interventions themselvescreate new constraints and incentives thataffect the process of technologicaldevelopments. Our central purpose in thisarticle is to provide environmental economistswith a useful guide to research ontechnological change and the analytical toolsthat can be used to explore further theinteraction between technology and theenvironment. In Part 1 of the article, weprovide an overview of analytical frameworksfor investigating the economics oftechnological change, highlighting key issuesfor the researcher. In Part 2, we turn ourattention to theoretical analysis of theeffects of environmental policy ontechnological change, and in Part 3, we focuson issues related to the empirical analysis oftechnology innovation and diffusion. Finally,we conclude in Part 4 with some additionalsuggestions for research.

ere_paper_2002.pdf

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Stavins, Robert N. “Importance of Maintaining the Annual Pollution Abatement Cost and Expenditures (PACE) Survey.” Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, 2002. sab_report_on_pace_2.pdf

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Donahue, John D, Joseph S Nye, Richard Zeckhauser, Peter Frumkin, Steven Kelman, Archon Fung, Frederick F Schauer, et al.Lessons from the American Experiment with Market-Based Environmental Policies.” In Market-Based Governance: Supply Side, Demand Side, Upside, and Downside, 173–200. Washington D.C. The Brookings Institution, 2002. lessons_from_the_american_experiment_with_market-based_environmental_policies.pdf

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Stavins, Robert N, and Howard K Gruenspecht. “A Level Field on Pollution at Power Plants.” The Boston Globe (2002). op-ed_on_nsr_in_botston_globe_jan_26_2002.pdf

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Stavins, Robert N, and Robert W Hahn. “National Environmental Policy During the Clinton Years.” In American Economic Policy in the 1990s, edited by Jeffrey A Frankel and Peter R Orszag, 583–660. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2002.Abstract

Note: For a PDF file that can be downloaded, please see "Environmental Regulation During the 1990s: A Retrospective Analysis," Harvard Environmental Law Review, above, in section titled, "Academic Journals.

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Stavins, Robert N, and Howard K Gruenspecht. “New Source Review Under the Clean Air Act: Ripe for Reform.” Resources (2002): 19–23. new_source_review_in_resources.pdf

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