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What are the factors, both economic and environmental, that make a problem more properly a local issue rather than a state issue?
How might a system of transferable permits be designed to achieve an aggregate recycling target cost-effectively?
What are the implications for cost-effective recycling programs of regulations that establish the same recycling ratios for all sectors of the economy?
In conducting a balancing analysis for a particular chemical or pesticide, what role is played by people's attitudes toward risk?
What are the two primary alternative explanations for the demographic patterns found in the vicinity of many hazardous-waste dump sites?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the doctrine of strict, joint, and several liability for Superfund sites?
How might a deposit-refund system be designed to provide incentives to dispose of hazardous materials in approved ways?
If people ordinarily will invest in items that save money in the long run, why is the CAFE program necessary at all?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a "new-source" bias in stationary-source air-pollution control?
What possibilities would this open up for new types of mobile source emission control programs?
Discuss the importance of the question of whether air-pollution damage functions have thresholds for establishing ambient air quality standards.
Analyze this difference with our standard pollution-control model. What does it suggest in terms of public policy toward water pollution control?
In order to meet TMDL limits in a cost-effective manner, what is the appropriate role of equimarginal principle? What about the economic efficiency principle?
What are the pros and cons of letting anybody buy and sell transferable discharge permits, in addition to emission sources themselves?
What consideration come into play when considering whether country or any other political entity is spending right amount for environmental quality improvement?
Show the effects of expansionary policy on output and the price level in an open economy when there is full employment.
Show how an increase in foreign income Y* affects output and the price level in the ASADFF model. What happens to real and nominal interest rates?
Explain the labor and capital market effects of an increase in taxes T. Show the adjustment in the ISLM model along the production function and the IS curve.
Suppose there is a decrease in the money supply Ms in the ISLM model. Explain the underlying adjustments in the capital and labor markets.
Explain what happens in the capital and labor markets when the interest rate rises and the economy moves up along its IS curve.
In order to protect the quality of its nearby water resources, a community places a restriction. How might you estimate the social costs of this regulation?
Design some contingent valuation-type questions for evaluating the value to people of improving the air quality in the Grand Canyon.
What is the usual meaning that economists give to the expression the value of a human life? What are the different ways of estimating this value?
Suppose you want to determine the aggregate willingness to pay among students at your school for increasing recycling at the school. How might you do this?
Compare and contrast how the Chinese government would evaluate the benefits versus how an individual Chinese worker would evaluate the benefits.