Pt. I. Environmental economics. 1. On environmental policy for a conservative era / William J. Baumol. 2. Environmental federalism: welfare losses from uniform national drinking water standards / Terry M. Dinan, Maureen L. Cropper and Paul R. Portney. 3. The case for a two-part instrument: presumptive tax and environmental subsidy / Don Fullerton and Ann Wolverton. 4. Tax-interactions, revenue-recycling, and the efficiency impacts of pollution-abatement policies / Lawrence H. Goulder. 5. The positive political economy of instrument choice in environmental policy / Nathaniel O. Keohane, Richard L. Revesz and Robert N. Stavins. 6. Does nature limit environmental federalism? / V. Kerry Smith, Kurt A. Schwabe and Carol Mansfield -- Pt. II. Public Economics. 7. Modeling urban growth controls / Jan K. Brueckner. 8. Congestion and taxation in lumpy countries / David L. Hummels, Paul N. Courant and Alan V. Deardorff.

9. The effects of educational vouchers when schools track students by ability / Dennis Epple, Elizabeth Newlon and Richard E. Romano. 10. On designing intergovernmental transfers with an application in the new South Africa / Robert P. Inman. 11. Public pensions in the EU: migration incentives and impacts / David E. Wildasin. 12. Early American federalism and economic development, 1790-1840 / John Joseph Wallis. 13. Capitalization and efficiency / John Yinger -- Wallace E. Oates: published books and papers.