Electricity is one of the last U.S.industries in which competition is replacingregulation. We briefly review the technologyfor producing and delivering power, the historyof electricity policy, and recent state andinternational experience. We then outline themajor questions facing policymakers as...

Recycling efforts recovered about 55 million tons of municipal solid waste through approximately 9,000 curbside recycling programs and about 10,000 drop-off centers in 1996 (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1998). We investigate economic impacts of this activity using state-level data...

In residential solid waste management, the United States has a great deal of experience in applying incentive-based environmental policy in the form of unit pricing. This study examines the two most common forms of unit pricing practiced in the United States. It offers intuition and empirical...