This study attempts to empirically re-examine the relationship between free trade agreements (FTAs) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For this aim, we chose three different free trade agreements: Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the...

Manufacturers have been increasingly relying on environmental management systems (such as ISO 14001 based ones) to comply with government regulations and reduce waste. In this paper, we investigated the impact of ISO 14001 certification on manufacturers' toxic release by release level. We...

Relationships between organic and conventional counterpart's prices have become complex with changes in the organic market structure. The concern is whether these fluctuations lead to changes in price dynamics between these products. We investigate price dynamics between organic and conventional...

The purpose of this paper is to calculate the expected reliability benefits of alternative water supplies that are less vulnerable to disruption than the current composition of supplies, especially those regions which rely on imported surface water. Expected reliability benefits are measured...

In response to the severe California drought, in April 2015, Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order mandating statewide reductions in water use. The mandate aimed to reduce the amount of water consumed statewide in urban areas by 25% from 2013 levels. The State Water Resources Control...

In this paper, the effects of Dropcountr on water usage were examined using household- level panel data for the City of Folsom water service area from January-2013 to September-2016. Results suggest that the introduction of the Dropcountr services for the population of households participating...

In this study, we evaluate the spillover effects of the recent U.S. Federal Reserve’s purchase of long-term assets (quantitative easing) on prices of Canadian commodities. The first large-scale asset purchases happened after the Great Recession, at the end of 2008, and the second...

We empirically test whether the investigation and impositions of U.S. antidumping duties in 2004 on imported shrimp distorts a named country's exports to third markets. We constructs a panel of bilateral, disaggregated product-level data for annual trade flows of subjected shrimp between the six...