Session Chairs:

Shrawantee Saha, University of New Hampshire

Papers:

"The Pollution Haven Disguised in Factor Intensities"
Bidisha Lahiri, Oklahoma State University (Contact Author)

"On the Efficient Siting of Noxious Facilities"
Rudy Santore, University of Tennessee (Contact Author)

"Collective Action: The Case of Environmental Regulation"
Suchandra Basu, Rhode Island College (Contact Author)
Nirupama Devaraj, Valparaiso University

Discussants:

Trevon D Logan, The Ohio State University and NBER
Ibrahim Demir, Benedict College

Session Chairs:

Bradley Curs, University of Missouri-Columbia

Papers:

"On the Economies of Scale of Private Land Conservation"
Sean E. Mulholland, Mercer University (Contact Author)

"Migration, Employment Growth, and Protected Lands in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia"
Robert R. Dunn, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

"Determinants of Media Attention: a Study of the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory"
Shrawantee Saha, University of New Hampshire (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Rachna Maheshwari, University of Virginia
Christina Steiger, University of Oregon

Session Chairs:

Shrawantee Saha, University of New Hampshire

Papers:

"A Constrained Nonlinear Solow Model for the Use of Technologies in a Food Industry Firm"
Lauro Jaime Martinez, Cortés, Universidad Anáhuac / Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores S. C. (Contact Author)
Gaston Vertiz Camaron, Universidad Anahuac
Gilberto Anzaldo-San-Vicente, Banco de México

"European Regional Convergence in a Human Capital Augmented Solow Model"
Christian Dreger, DIW Berlin (Contact Author)
Matthias Tuerck, University of Kassel
Hans-Friedrich Eckey, University of Kassel

"Growth and Interregional Convergence in Transition Economies"
Kiril Tochkov, Texas Christian University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Christian Dreger, DIW Berlin
Shrawantee Saha, University of New Hampshire