Vol. 23, No. 2, 2000

For the Record

• Pinpointing the Polluters | Two Views of Mortgage Discrimination | Another Route to Regulatory Reform (PDF, 3 pp, 56 kb)

Briefly Noted

• What Are We Paying These Guys For? (PDF, 2 pp, 49 kb)
  Alex Avery and Richard Halpern
• Is There Light at the End of the Regulatory Tunnel? Not in Pennsylvania (PDF, 3 pp, 59 kb)
  Randolph J. May
• The “Backdoor Btu Tax” (PDF, 1 pp, 39 kb)
  Glenn Schleede

Analytical Foundations

• The End of Market Failure (PDF, 5 pp, 78 kb)
  Richard O. Zerbe Jr. and Howard McCurdy
  

Economic Development Policy

• The Stadium Gambit and Local Economic Development (PDF, 6 pp, 83 kb)
  Dennis Coates and Brad R. Humphreys
  

Torts

• Exporting Tort Awards (PDF, 6 pp, 90 kb)
  Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok

Banking and Credit

• A Microeconomic Analysis of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (PDF, 7 pp, 101 kb)
  Robert Van Order

Research and Development

• A Better Way to Spur Medical Research and Development (PDF, 6 pp, 86 kb)
  Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer
  

Energy | Cover Stories

• Competition Requires Transmission Capacity: The Case of the U.S. Northeast (PDF, 6 pp, 112 kb)
  Douglas R. Hale, Thomas J. Overbye, and Thomas Leckey
• Electricity Restructuring: Deregulation or Reregulation? (PDF, 7 pp, 164 kb)
  Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell
  

In Review

• Nature’s Numbers: Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment (PDF, 6 pp, 94 kb)
  Reviewed by Brian F. Mannix
• Discounting and Intergenerational Equity, (PDF, 3 pp, 67 kb)
  Reviewed by Brian F. Mannix
• Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology, (PDF, 2 pp, 54 kb)
  Reviewed by Richard L. Gordon
• Calculating Risks: The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy, (PDF, 3 pp, 62 kb)
  Reviewed by Michael Gough

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