This paper compares a tax on greenhouse gas emissions with a cap-and-trade program for reducing those emissions. The comparison is made on the basis of two criteria: economic efficiency and cost effectiveness. If there were an accepted measure of the marginal benefit of reducing a ton of...

Although EPA routinely examines the effects of individual pesticide regulations on aggregate farm income, only a few attempts have been made to examine the impacts of multiple pesticide cancellations. This study examines the combined effect of recent and proposed environmental regulations (both...