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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality : Evidence from the Nox Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
Deschenes, Olivier - 2014
decreased the number of summer days with high ozone levels by about 25%. The NBP also led to reductions in expenditures on … that the reductions in ozone are the primary channel for these reductions in defensive investments and mortality rates …, which indicates that willingness to pay for ozone reductions is larger than previously understood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065730
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando - 2012
We study the determinants of comparative advantage in polluting industries. We combine data on environmental policy at the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental regulation have a comparative advantage in polluting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101512
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Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems
Ranson, Matthew - 2014
The outcome of the December 2011 United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, provides an important new opportunity to move toward an international climate policy architecture that is capable of delivering broad international participation and significant global CO2 emissions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065958
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Who Pays a Price on Carbon?
Grainger, Corbett A. - 2010
We use the 2003 Consumer Expenditure Survey and emissions estimates from an input-output model to estimate the incidence of a price on carbon induced by a cap-and-trade program or carbon tax in the US context. We present results on how much difference income deciles pay for a carbon tax as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151377
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Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies
Gerarden, Todd - 2016
Coal mined on federally managed lands accounts for approximately 40% of U.S. coal consumption and 13% of total U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions. The U.S. Department of the Interior is undertaking a programmatic review of federal coal leasing, including the climate effects of burning federal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993221
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Regulating Mismeasured Pollution : Implications of Firm Heterogeneity for Environmental Policy
Lyubich, Eva - 2018
This paper provides the first estimates of within-industry heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity for the entire U.S. manufacturing sector. We measure energy and CO2 productivity as output per dollar energy input or per ton CO2 emitted. Three findings emerge. First, within narrowly defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929555
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Environmental Regulation and Productivity : Evidence from Oil Refineries
Berman, Eli; Bui, Linda TM - 2021
We examine the effect of air quality regulation on the productivity of some of the most heavily regulated manufacturing plants in the United States, the oil refineries of the Los Angeles (South Coast) Air Basin. We use direct measures of local air pollution regulation in this region to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220396
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Pollution Control Innovations and the Clean Air Act of 1990
Popp, David - 2021
Although economists cite potential gains from induced innovation as an advantage of using market-based mechanisms to protect the environment, counts of patents related to flue gas desulfurization units ('scrubbers') peaked before trading of sulfur dioxide (SO2) permits began. This paper uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222060
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Estimating the General Equilibrium Benefits of Large Policy Changes : The Clean Air Act Revisited
Sieg, Holger; Smith, V. Kerry; Banzhaf, H. Spencer; … - 2021
This paper reports the first comprehensive approach for measuring the general equilibrium willingness to pay for large changes in air quality. It is based on a well defined locational equilibrium model. The approach allows estimation of households' indirect utility function and the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214586
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Looking Back at 50 Years of the Clean Air Act
Aldy, Joseph E.; Auffhammer, Max; Cropper, Maureen; … - 2022
, public health, compliance costs, and employment. Cap-and-trade has delivered greater emission reductions at lower cost than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312739