Daniel H. Cole

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Professor of Law

211 S. Indiana Avenue

Bloomington, IN 47405

United States

Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs

1315 East Tenth Street

Bloomington, IN 47405

United States

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1.

The Meaning of Property 'Rights': Law vs. Economics?

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The Meaning of Property 'Rights': Law vs. Economics?

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 May 2000
Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Butler University - College of Business Administration
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The Meaning of Property 'Rights': Law vs. Economics?

Forthcoming in Land Economics
Posted: 21 Jun 2002
Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Butler University - College of Business Administration

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Climate Change and Collective Action

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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climate change, global warming, collective action, Kyoto Protocol, Vienna Convention, Montreal Protocol, catastophe

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The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources

Indiana University-Bloomington School of Public & Environmental Affairs Research Paper No. 2010-08-01
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2011
Daniel H. Cole and Elinor Ostrom
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Indiana University Bloomington - School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA)
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Property, Rights, Governance, Natural Resources, Conservation, Sustainability

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Toward a New Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (NIASES): Combining Elinor Ostrom's IAD and SES Frameworks

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 299, Indiana University, Bloomington School of Public & Environmental Affairs Research Paper No. 2490999
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2015
Daniel H. Cole, Graham Epstein and Michael D. McGinnis
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Political Science and Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Political Science
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institutions, IAD framework, SES framework, social-ecological systems, dynamic

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The 'Stern Review' and its Critics: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Benefit-Cost Analysis

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The 'Stern Review' and its Critics: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Benefit-Cost Analysis

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 May 2007 Last Revised: 04 May 2008
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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benefit-cost analysis, discounting, discount rate, climate change

The 'Stern Review' and its Critics: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Benefit-Cost Analysis

Natural Resources Journal, 2008
Posted: 17 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2008
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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benefit-cost analysis, discounting, discount rate, climate change

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'An Unqualified Human Good': E.P. Thompson and the Rule of Law

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'An Unqualified Human Good': E.P. Thompson and the Rule of Law

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Aug 1999
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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'An Unqualified Human Good': E.P. Thompson and the Rule of Law

Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 28, No. 2, June 2001
Posted: 25 May 2001
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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The Law and Economics Approach to Property

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 277
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 08 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2014
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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property, Coase, law and economics, natural resources, Ostrom

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From Global to Polycentric Climate Governance

EUI Working Papers No. 2011/30
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Jun 2011
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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climate change, governance, Kyoto Protocol, polycentric, global, federalism

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Digging Deeper into Hardin's Pasture: The Complex Institutional Structure of 'The Tragedy of the Commons'

Forthcoming in the Journal of Institutional Economics
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 29 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2014
Daniel H. Cole, Graham Epstein and Michael D. McGinnis
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Political Science and Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Political Science
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common-pool resources, institutions, social-ecological systems, property

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Political Institutions, Judicial Review, and Private Property: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

Supreme Court Economic Review, Vol. 15, 2007
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Jun 2005
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Property, United Kingdom, comparative institutional analysis, judicial review, takings, regulatory takings

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Climate Change, Adaptation, and Development

UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Mar 2007
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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climate change, adaptation, development, foreign aid, international law

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Property Creation by Regulation: Rights to Clean Air and Rights to Pollute

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2011
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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property, regulation, environment, aviation, sovereignty, takings

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Institutions Matter! Why the Herder Problem is Not a Prisoner's Dilemma

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 30 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2008
Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Butler University - College of Business Administration
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tragedy of the commons, prisoner's dilemma, game theory, herder problem, institutions, cooperation, communication, commons

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The Varieties of Comparative Institutional Analysis

Indiana University, Bloomington School of Public & Environmental Affairs Research Paper No. 2012-10-03
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2013
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Comparative Institutional Analysis, Institution, Organization, Rule, Action Situation, Framework, Model, Theory

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Toward a Total-Cost Approach to Environmental Instrument Choice

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Jul 2001
Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Butler University - College of Business Administration
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environment, taxes, tradable quotas, nontradable quotas

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Why Kelo is Not Good News for Local Planners and Developers

Georgia State University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 05 Feb 2006
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Law, property, takings, eminent domain, Kelo, United States, United Kingdom, legislation, politics, public choice

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Uncertainty, Insurance, and the Learned Hand Formula

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Uncertainty, Insurance, and the Learned Hand Formula

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Jan 2006
Peter Z. Grossman, Reed W. Cearley and Daniel H. Cole
Butler University - College of Business Administration, Cearley & Thompson and Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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accidents, torts, insurance, Learned Hand Formula, information

Uncertainty, Insurance and the Learned Hand Formula

Law, Probability and Risk, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 1-18, 2006
Posted: 17 Jul 2008
Peter Z. Grossman, Reed W. Cearley and Daniel H. Cole
Butler University - College of Business Administration, Cearley & Thompson and Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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torts, uncertainty, risk, insurance, negligence, information, learned hand formula

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Towards 'Best Practice' Standards in Environmental Benefit-Cost Analysis

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 27 Jul 2006
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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benefit-cost analysis, method, discounting, valuation, judicial review, OMB, EPA

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Regulatory Cost-Benefit Analysis and Collective Action

Context and the Evolution of Mechanisms for Solving Collective Action Problems Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2011
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Cost-benefit Analysis, Economic Analysis, Environmental Law, EPA, Collective Action

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Formal Institutions and the IAD Framework: Bringing the Law Back In

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2014
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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institutions, law, rules, IAD framework

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The Problem of Shared Irresponsibility in International Climate Law

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2014
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Climate change, International law, Transboundary harm, litigation, United Nations, Polycentric

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Toward a Political Economy of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1954892
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2012
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Social costs, Cost-benefit Analysis, Economic Analysis, Environmental Law, EPA

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Protecting Private Property with Constitutional Judicial Review: A Social Welfare Approach

Review of Law and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 02 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2008
Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Butler University - College of Business Administration
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property, judicial review, social welfare, efficiency

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Grandfathering

NYU Wagner Research Paper No. 2182573, Indiana University, Bloomington School of Public & Environmental Affairs Research Paper No. 2012-11-03
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2012
Maria Damon, Daniel H. Cole, Elinor Ostrom and Thomas Sterner
Independent, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington - School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) and Göteborg University - Department of Economics
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First in time, prior appropriation, grandfathering, incentives

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A Glimmer of Hope: The EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2010
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Climate change, Kyoto Protocol, European Union, Emissions trading, Emissions offsets

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Explaining the Persistence of 'Command-and-Control' in US Environmental Law

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 380
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2017
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Pollution, Clean Air Act, Command-and-Control, Effluent Taxes, Cap-and-Trade, Public Choice, Interest-Group Politics, Path Dependence, Social Welfare, Efficiency

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'Economic Property Rights' as 'Nonsense Upon Stilts': A Comment on Hodgson

Journal of Institutional Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 29 May 2015
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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property, possesssion, brute facts, social facts, institution, state

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Trust, Cooperation, and Polycentric Climate Negotiations

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 17 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2014
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Climate change, game theory, common-pool resource, public good, negotiations, trust, cooperation, communication

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Origins of Emissions Trading in Theory and Early Practice

S.E. Weishaar and E. Woerdmann, eds, Handbook on Emissions Trading (Edward Elgar, 2015/16), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 May 2015
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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emissions trading, Clean Air Act, instrument choice

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Learning from Lin: Lessons and Cautions from the Natural Commons for the Knowledge Commons

Governing Knowledge Commons, edited by Brett Frischmann, Michael Madison and Kathy Strandberg (Oxford University Press, 2014)., Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 298
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 31 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2014
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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common-pool resources, institutions, IAD framework, information, knowledge, commons

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Stranded Benefits Versus Stranded Costs in Utility Deregulation

THE END OF A NATURAL MONOPOLY: DEREGULATION AND COMPETITION IN THE ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY, Daniel H. Cole, ed., JAI Press 2003
Posted: 04 Jun 2003
Reed W. Cearley and Daniel H. Cole
Cearley & Thompson and Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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When Property Regimes Collide: The 'Takings' Problem

Daniel H. Cole, POLLUTION AND PROPERTY: COMPARING OWNERSHIP INSTITUTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Posted: 26 May 2003
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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Property, private property, public property, takings, water, land, air, wildlife, endangered species, Supreme Court, regulatory takings

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Pollution and Property: Comparing Ownership Institutions for Environmental Protection

Daniel H. Cole, POLLUTION AND PROPERTY: COMPARING OWNERSHIP INSTITUTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Posted: 23 Apr 2003
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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'An Unqualified Human Good': E.P. Thompson and the Rule of Law

Journal of Law and Society, Forthcoming
Posted: 11 Jul 2001
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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When is Command-and-Control Efficient? Institutions, Technology, and the Comparative Efficiency of Alternative Regulatory Regimes for Environmental Protection

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When is Command-and-Control Efficient? Institutions, Technology, and the Comparative Efficiency of Alternative Regulatory Regimes for Environmental Protection

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 1999, Pp. 887-938, 1999
Posted: 13 Mar 2000
Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Butler University - College of Business Administration

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When is Command-and-Control Efficient? Institutions, Technology, and the Comparative Efficiency of Alternative Regulatory Regimes for Environmental Protection

Posted: 05 Nov 1998
Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Butler University - College of Business Administration

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Property Rights on Environmental Goods

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
Posted: 12 Oct 1997
Daniel H. Cole
Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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