This research applies recent developments in the analysis of firm location determinants, applying local geographic concentration indices to determine and the extent to which clustering influences the location decisions of cellulosic biofuel facilities. We focus on ethanol production from...

Two auctions have been proposed in the literature for siting noxious facilities: the high-bid and the low-bid auctions. In this paper, we pursue the analysis of these auctions made by O'Sullivan [1993], where he concludes that the high-bid auction has the edge over the low-bid auction. We point...

In recent decade, community after community has refused to accept facilities that require large amounts of land and generate local environmental costs such as airports, trash disposal plants or waste incinerators. Faced with this problem economists have used several methods such as lotteries,...