Comments Received on Environmental Policy Concerns

Environmental Concerns, Environmental Policy and Green Investment

Environmental regulators often use environmental policy to induce green investment by firms. However, if an environmental policy fails to exert a long-run effect on regulating the economic agents' behavior, it may be more reasonable to think of the firm as the leader in the game, since the investment in green technology is usually a strategic decision. In this paper, we consider a three-stage S...

Docketing of Information Written Public Comments Received from on the Private Fuel Storage Environmental Impact Statement

The southern part of Skull Valley has potential for shallowly buried mineral deposits. The most likely deposit type is either skarn/porphyry copper deposits, perhaps with surrounding polymetallic lead-zinc-silver replacement deposits or "distal disseminated" gold-silver deposits. The area (1) is structurally complex with both thrust and high-angle faults, (2) contains lithologic units favorable...

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While prior research, as noted in our paper, often uses various accrual prediction models to detect earnings management, not much is known about the accuracy, both relative and absolute, associated with these models. Our paper investigates the accuracy of six different accrual prediction models, and offers the following findings. Only the Kang-Sivaramakrishnan (1995) model performs moderately w...

Public Comments Received on FIPS 186-4: Digital Signature Standard

NIST’s ECC standards create (1) unnecessary losses of sim­ plicity, security, and speed in ECC implementations and (2) unnecessary tensions between simplicity, security, and speed in ECC implementations.

Iranian Population Policy and Aging: New Health Concerns