This research uses neighborhood characteristics (at the zipcode level) to explain changes in toxic releases between 1990 and 1993. It combines the Toxics Release Inventory data with demographic data from the 1990 US Census. We first analyze the location of manufacturing facilities in a...

This research uses neighborhood characteristics (at the zipcode level) in 1990 to explain toxic releases in 1993. It combines the Toxics Release Inventory data with demographic data from the 1990 US Census. We first analyze the location of manufacturing facilities in a particular neighborhood...

This research uses neighborhood characteristics (at the zipcode level) to explain changes in toxic releases between 1990 and 1993. It combines the Toxics Release Inventory data with demographic data from the 1990 US Census. We first analyze the location of manufacturing facilities in a...

We examine whether pollution prevention actions result in innovation. Since a change in the product or process is not instantaneous, we compute the buy and hold returns for the long run to capture the gains due to innovation. We compare the stock market performances for firms that reported...

While public benefits of environmentally friendly practices are well understood, there is anecdotal evidence that suggests that firms that follow such practices also receive private benefits. The paper investigates the effect of pollution prevention activity in creating private value for the...

Conducting cost-benefit analyses of health and safety regulations requires placing a dollar value on reductions in health risks, including the risk of death. In the United States, mortality risks are often valued using compensating-wage differentials. These differentials measure what a worker...

A contest is a situation in which individuals or groups expend costly resources while competing to win a specific prize. The variety of economic situations that can be described as contests has attracted enormous attention from economic theorists. Despite the extensive theoretical research of...

This thesis includes three essays that examine the impact on network externalities (demand side economies of scale) on agent behaviour in markets. Essays 2 and 3 use experimental methodology to test predictions from theory. The fourth essay analyses field data collected from a specific market...

This dissertation consists of three essays on experimental and behavioral economics that examine how decision-making in the laboratory environment is affected by changes in context.1 The first three essays focus on how behavior changes when individuals are presented with two simultaneous...