The objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship of the carbon Kuznets curve. We discuss two potential flaws in past carbon Kuznets curve studies: one, the potential misspecification of energy consumption as a control variable; and, two, the use of vector error correction models as an...

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pt. 1. Consumers' sovereignty -- pt. 2. Markets and consumer interaction -- pt. 3. Producers' rules -- pt. 4. Competitive forces -- pt. 5. Monopoly power -- pt. 6. Strategic agent interaction -- pt. 7. Input markets -- pt. 8. Risky world and intertemporal choices -- pt. 9. Missing markets.

The southeastern United States typically receives more than 130cm of precipitation per year. In this region, as in others around the world, irrigation is used as a supplement to rainfall. Over the past thirty years the number of hectares under irrigation in the region has grown considerably, as...

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently adjusted regulations governing confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), significantly increasing the number of regulated firms. A theoretical model is developed to analyze how changes to the number of regulated firms, monitoring effort, and...