stringency. When the size distribution of firms is heavily skewed, regulation size thresholds can reduce transaction costs for … regulatory agencies while bringing most production within a regulatory framework. However, size-based regulation may have … unintended consequences if operations downsize, slow their growth, or enter at a smaller size in order to avoid regulation. These …

particular importance to upcoming federal regulation of large-scale livestock production under the Clean Air Act. By exploiting …Research on environmental regulation’s effects on economic activity has largely focused on manufacturing, ignoring one … of the major polluters in the U.S. – commercial agriculture. As livestock production has become increasingly mobile …

particular importance to upcoming federal regulation of large-scale livestock production under the Clean Air Act. By exploiting …Research on environmental regulation’s effects on economic activity has largely focused on manufacturing, ignoring one … of the major polluters in the U.S. – commercial agriculture. As livestock production has become increasingly mobile …

Climate change could affect the costs and returns of livestock production by altering the thermal environment of … animals thereby affecting animal health, reproduction, and the efficiency by which livestock convert feed into retained … products (especially meat and milk). In the United States, concentrated livestock operations are located in a variety of …

carbon offset market or directly with payments—could increase the number of livestock producers who would profit from …

livestock sector has grown in relative importance. Households are the main contributors to agricultural production but their … individual holdings of land are small by Western standards and households keeping livestock mostly only hold a few head. Given …