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Carbon Motivated Regional Trade Arrangements : Analytics and Simulations
Dong, Yan - 2014
This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong amp; Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750865
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Overlapping Climate Policies
Perino, Grischa - 2019
Major carbon-pricing systems in Europe and North America involve multiple jurisdictions (countries or states). Individual jurisdictions often pursue additional initiatives—such as unilateral carbon price floors, legislation to phase out coal, aviation taxes or support programs for renewable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890770
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Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy : The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies
Holland, Stephen P. - 2011
Instead of efficiently pricing greenhouse gases, policy makers have favored measures that implicitly or explicitly subsidize low carbon fuels. We simulate a transportation-sector cap & trade program (CAT) and three policies currently in use: ethanol subsidies, a renewable fuel standard (RFS),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120318
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The Climate Policy Dilemma
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2012
Climate policy poses a dilemma for environmental economists. The economic argument for stringent GHG abatement is far from clear. There is disagreement among both climate scientists and economists over the likelihood of alternative climate outcomes, over the nature and extent of the uncertainty...
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Monitoring and Enforcement of Climate Policy
Sigman, Hilary - 2010
This chapter applies recent research on environmental enforcement to a potential U.S. program to control greenhouse gases, especially through emission trading. Climate policies present the novel problem of integrating emissions reductions that are relatively easy to monitor (such as carbon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141861
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Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy : The Economics of Environmental Policy Phase-Ins
Williams, Roberton C. - 2010
This paper considers the question of under what circumstances a new environmental regulation should "phase in" gradually over time, rather than being immediately implemented at full force. The paper focuses particularly on climate policy, though its insights are more general. It shows that while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141862
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The Generational Divide in Support for Environmental Policies : European Evidence
Viscusi, W. Kip; Hersch, Joni - 2021
This article examines age variations in support for environmental protection policies that affect climate change using a sample of over 14,000 respondents to a 1999 Eurobarometer survey. There is a steady decline with age in whether respondents are willing to incur higher gasoline prices to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226098
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Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures
Olmstead, Sheila M. - 2010
We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise … water utility service areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759730
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Environmental Externalities and Free-Riding in the Household
Jack, B. Kelsey - 2018
Water use and electricity use, which generate negative environmental externalities, are susceptible to a second … other household members. If individual usage is imperfectly observed (as is typical for water and electricity) and family … argument and test its prediction that intrahousehold free-riding dampens price sensitivity. We do so in the context of water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930842
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Peer Effects in Water Conservation : Evidence from Consumer Migration
Bollinger, Bryan - 2018
identifies causal peer effects in water conservation during the growing season, utilizing variation from consumer migration. We … landscaping underpins the peer effects in water consumption. We also provide evidence that without a price signal, peer effects … are muted, demonstrating a complementarity between information transmission and prices. These results inform water use …
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