Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "Environmental policy -- Economic aspects -- United States"

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    • Currencies and the Commodification of Environmental Law 
      Ruhl, J. B.; Salzman, James (Stanford Law Review, 2000)
      The success of several environmental trading markets (ETMs) has led to proposals for broader use of ETMs in environmental and resource management policy. The successful ETMs all share a basic feature-they exchange units ...
    • Monetizing the Benefits of Risk and Environmental Regulation 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2006)
      Should the benefits of risk and environmental regulations be monetized? For economists, this question is not controversial. Benefits of government policies have a value given by society's willingness to pay for these ...
    • Rational Discounting for Regulatory Analysis 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (University of Chicago Law Review, 2007)
      This Article examines the economic basis for what is termed "rational discounting," which entails full recognition of policy effects over time and exponential discounting at a riskless rate of return. Policies often cannot ...