Employee energy benefits (EEBs), such as subsidies for employee home energy audits and financial incentives for carpooling to work, aim to influence employees' environmental behaviors outside of work. Exploring these understudied benefits would offer new insights that can enrich theories of...

We use the classical model of structured expert judgment to examine the return on investment (ROI) in a health surveillance network. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Tracking Program) in 2002 to collect available data to...

Since the early 1990s, the validity of the Porter Hypothesis has been the focus of intense research efforts to establish whether well-designed environmental regulation may enhance – rather than reduce – competitiveness. However, little consensus exists on the extent to which (if at all)...

This paper explores the legal and economic theories, and empirical evidence of government-imposed punishment for corporate wrongdoing. Among the questions addressed are: What is the purpose of corporate criminal law? How are sanctions to be determined? When should firms versus individuals be...

While innovation is generally thought to provide value to society, the organization literature is beginning to examine this issue more closely by noting that innovation may also lead to negative social outcomes - oftentimes unintended consequences of policies or market incentives to innovate. In...

This study utilizes a state-of-the-art survey methodology previously employed in the environmental, health and safety economics literatures to estimate the cost of violent crime and homicide in Buenos Aires. We demonstrate the feasibility of this method for crime cost estimation and for using...

This paper identifies the individual components of social harm associated with a hypothetical racially motivated police encounter. An individual who believes they are being targeted by police because they are a member of a racial minority may suffer from fear of physical harm and humiliation by...

We use survey data from a nationally representative sample to explore public support for government-run victim compensation programs for financial fraud, consumer fraud, identity theft, and burglary. We use contingent valuation (willingness to pay) methodology to infer preferences for...