Assessing the Challenges Confronting Distributive Electricity Generation
What role will distributive electricity technologies play in meeting future demand? Policy makers are divided on the answer. For some, these technologies represent the foundations from which a...
View ArticleThe Evolving Role of Technology in Mortgage Finance
This article surveys the effects of technology on mortgage finance during the 1990 to 2000 period, focusing on the individual firm. Innovations in the three functional areas of origination, servicing,...
View ArticleCreating Incentives for Environmentally Enhancing Technological Change:...
Due to the externalities associated with energy production and consumption, public policy is necessary to provide a stimulus for the development and diffusion of more environmentally sound energy...
View ArticleOvercoming Obstacles to Technology-Enabled Transformation
Through the example of the General Service Administration's (GSA), an analysis of how technology-enabled transformation entails breaking old habits, learning to do business in new ways, and adopting a...
View ArticleKeystone Dialogue on Global Climate Change: Final Report
The Keystone Dialogue on Global Climate Change brought together approximately 30 representatives from environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs), industry, and the research and technical...
View ArticleVoluntary, Collaborative, and Information-Based Policies: Lessons and Next...
Over the past decade, the United States and many European countries have developed new approaches to environmental policy that are voluntary, collaborative, and information-based. These programs are...
View ArticleThe Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of...
There is increasing interest within the environmental policy community in assessing the factors that affect technological change. This interest is linked with two realities: first, the costs of...
View ArticleE-Rulemaking: Information Technology and the Regulatory Process
Electronic rulemaking, or e-rulemaking, offers the potential to overcome some of the informational challenges associated with developing regulations. E-rulemaking refers to the use of digital...
View ArticleBest Practices in the European Countries: United Kingdom
This document provides information about administrative reform in the United Kingdom and is part of a series published by the Centre for Administrative Innovation in the Euro-Mediterranean Region....
View ArticleLocal Government Stimulation of Broadband: Effectiveness, E-Government, and...
Access to broadband is widely recognized as a prerequisite for a community's economic welfare and the delivery of government services. However, no systematic data document the nature and status of...
View ArticleTechnological Change and the Environment
Environmental policy discussions increasingly focus on issues related to technological change. This is partly because the environmental consequences of social activity are frequently affected by the...
View ArticleDepartment of Defense Nonlethal Weapons and Equipment Review: A Research...
This report describes the nonlethal weapons and equipment currently used (October 2004) by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the U.S. Coast Guard, as well as less-lethal devices used by a number of...
View ArticleInformation Technology and Regulatory Policy: New Directions for Digital...
Information technology holds the potential for improving the process by which government makes regulatory decisions affecting vital aspects of society and the economy. This article charts new...
View ArticleWithin and Between Firm Changes in Human Capital, Technology, and Productivity
Understanding how the introduction of new technology impacts firms and in turn impacts workers has increasingly become important in the past two decades ? particularly understanding the dynamic...
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