Economists argue that policymakers should take advantage of market principles in designing environmental regulations. Such market-based approaches – environmental taxes and cap-and-trade – use economic incentives to achieve environmental goals at lower costs. Market-based approaches have now...

This paper uses a hedonic model for pricing decisions in non-competitive markets to model the relationship between undergraduate tuition and the characteristics of private universities. The model includes measures of externally funded research, the influence of student aid policies, college and...