Will economic growth inevitably degrade the environment, throughout development?This paper presents a simple household-choice framework that emphasizes the tradeoffbetween pollution-causing consumption and pollution-reducing abatement expenditures.The framework yields a simple explanation for...

The goal of this record of study is to examine the major facets involved in managing several petroleum service projects located in three different countries in the Gulf of Guinea simultaneously, while effectively engaging in business development activities for the Oil and Industrial Services...

This paper is a theoretical analysis of incentive setting via civil litigation, with a focus on incentives for care in activities that may be harmful to others (torts). It makes two main contributions: one directly policy-relevant, one conceptual. In most existing research, litigation is modeled...

A companion paper, Sanchirico (1997) introduces the concept of "endogenous cost evidence" in a model of single-agent, mandatory hearings. The current paper extends Sanchirico (1997) by adding multiple parties and allowing for the possibility that agents may choose both whether to attend the...