What structural and nonstructural solutions could better protect the Houston-Galveston area from the devastating impact of hurricanes and severe storms? Baker Institute fellows Jim Blackburn and Regina Buono studied the issue from legal, policy and governmental perspectives.

Confusion over Texas' voter photo identification requirement potentially discouraged as many as 9 percent of registered voters from going to the polls in the November 2014 elections in the Latino-majority U.S. Congressional District 23 (CD-23), according to a new study.

Abstract

Preponderant agent is a new instrument for preventing and reverting adverse impact in competition due to highly…

This paper investigates how new potential and proposed regulations will influence the natural gas market in the United States in the coming decades, using the Rice World Gas Trade Model (RWGTM) to examine scenarios in which domestic natural gas development is stressed in a variety of ways. It considers a range of possible policy actions from the federal to the local level.

Energy experts from government, industry and academia investigate influences on oil and gas investments, as well as future directions for global commodity pricing.

Under this study, the Baker Institute will embark on a comprehensive study on the interaction of the oil investment cycle and the general business cycle, including consideration of how the global economy and patterns of industry capital investment are influenced by oil price shocks.

The United States should assign a particularly high priority on science and technology over the next four years, especially for federal support of research.

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Executive Summary

We propose a national marketing…

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I. Introduction

Even a cursory glance across the…

Introduction

Figure 1

The marshes, bays, and estuaries of the upper Texas Gulf Coast form a complex matrix of rich…