Session Chairs:

Garth Heutel, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Papers:

"Does Participation in Voluntary Environmental Programs Improve Firm Productive Efficiency?"
Daniel Matisoff, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)

"Learning and Forgetting in the Photovoltaic Cell Industry"
A.J. Allen Bostian, The University of New South Wales (Contact Author)
Andrew Flint, The University of New South Wales
Christoph Heinzel, Toulouse School of Economics

"The French Biodiesel Production: An Assessment of the Welfare Impacts and Interaction Effects of Policy Instruments"
Virginie Doumax, Paul Cézanne University (Contact Author)

"Optimal Allocation of Research and Development Funding for Carbon Abatement Technologies"
Garth Heutel, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Virginie Doumax, Paul Cézanne University
Daniel Matisoff, Georgia Institute of Technology
A.J. Allen Bostian, The University of New South Wales
Andres Jauregui, Columbus State University

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Session Chairs:

Paul J. Ferraro, Georgia State University

Papers:

"Heterogeneous Harm Versus Spatial Spillovers: Environmental Federalism and U.S. Air Pollution"
Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University (Contact Author)
Benjamin A. Chupp, Illinois State University

"The Green Paradox and the Capacity Building Decision"
Marc Gronwald, Ifo Institute for Economic Research
Marcus Zimmer, Ifo Institute for Economic Research

"Optimal Policy Instruments for Externality-Producing Durable Goods Under Behavioral Anomalies"
Garth Heutel, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Contact Author)

"Timing Climate Change: Managing Threshold Event Risk on the Way to a Steady State"
Catherine S. Norman, Johns Hopkins University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

TBA

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Session Chairs:

Adam T. Jones, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Papers:

"Determinants of Public Corruption: A Spatial Econometric Approach"
Donald J. Lacombe, West Virginia University
William F. Shughart, II, The University of Mississippi
Gokhan Karahan, Delta State University (Contact Author)

"How Well Does the U.S. Government Provide Health Insurance?"
Daniel L. Millimet, Southern Methodist University (Contact Author)
Manan Roy, Southern Methodist University

"The Local Decision to Ban Smoking"
Ryan Todd Phelps, Stephen F. Austin State University (Contact Author)

"The Lighter the Money the Better It Sticks: Impact Fees as Evidence of a Varying Flypaper Effect"
Adam T. Jones, University of North Carolina Wilmington (Contact Author)

Discussants:

William F. Shughart, II, The University of Mississippi
Garth Heutel, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Louis Jaeck, Paul Cézanne University
Yang-Ming Chang, Kansas State University

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