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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...

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The 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,...

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Creating 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...

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Overcoming 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...

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Keystone 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...

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Voluntary, 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...

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The 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...

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E-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...

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Best 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....

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Local 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...

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Technological 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...

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Department 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...

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Information 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...

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Eight Imperatives for Leaders in a Networked World: Use IT for Strategic...

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Within 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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