We theoretically analyze the interaction between two representative and real tanneries, denoted by A and B, that are located on the same bank of the Ganges River in Kanpur, India. Tannery A is situated upstream from tannery B. Both tanneries produce leather and leather production by tannery A...

We analyze an office environment with two types of workers. The first type believes that masks offer little or no protection against Covid-19 and hence this type does not wear a mask. The second type wants to protect itself from Covid-19 and therefore this type does wear a mask. By not wearing a...

We analyze interregional competition between two regions A and B that use taxes to attract a representative creative class member (the entrepreneur). This entrepreneur establishes a firm in either region A or B and this action guarantees her profit. However, if the entrepreneur locates in region...

Although ecologists have long recognized the importance of persistence in determining the behavior of ecological systems, it is only very recently that economists have begun to analyze this notion in relation to the use of services that are provided by jointly determined ecological-economic...

While it is clear that in most settings, landlords generally contract with many tenants whose productivities are positively correlated, the salience of relative performance evaluation in the design of rural wage contracts has been little studied in development economics. This paper analyzes two...

In contemporary times, ecologists and economists have drawn attention to the fact that ecological and economic systems are jointly determined. Once this is recognized, it seems rather clear that ecological-economic systems ought to be analyzed as one system. Nevertheless, because this...

We study the task faced by an asymmetrically informed supra-national governmental authority (SNGA) with limited funds that wishes to design an international environmental agreement (IEA) for less developed countries (LDCs). The SNGA can't contract directly with polluting firms in the various...

I describe the theoretical and empirical contributions that rigorous economic analysis can make in improving our understanding of the causes of and the solutions to a variety of international environmental problems. I do this by analyzing and summarizing the intellectual contributions of...

In recent times, there has been considerable interest in issues at the interface of the environment and development. In this paper, I review four prominent recent books about the environment and development. In particular, I analyze the contributions of these four books with regard to (i) the...

In contemporary times, a considerable amount of concern has been expressed about the diminution in the USA's old growth forests. There is general agreement among scholars that old growth forests provide amenity services and timber, and that forest harvesting decisions are fundamentally...