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This paper tests how a major cap-and-trade program, known as the NOx Budget Trading Program (NBP), impacted labor … markets in the regions where it was implemented. The cap-and-trade program dramatically decreased levels of NOx emissions and …
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In this paper, we develop a methodology for estimating marginal emissions of electricity demand that vary by location and time of day across the United States. The approach takes account of the generation mix within interconnected electricity markets and shifting load profiles throughout the...
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Over the past decade, concern over potential global warming has focused attention on the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and there is an active debate concerning the desirability of reducing emissions. At the heart of this debate is the future path of both greenhouse gas...
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is a large US emissions cap and trade market - the NOx Budget Trading Program (NBP) - that has greatly reduced NOx …
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The allocation of emissions allowances is among the most contentious elements of the design of cap-and-trade systems …
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A perceived advantage of cap-and-trade programs over more prescriptive environmental regulation is that enhanced …
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We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a counterfactual command-and-control policy. We develop a normatively significant metric with which to rank the various distributions in a manner consistent with an explicit...
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Cap-and-trade systems have emerged as the preferred national and regional instrument for reducing emissions of … tradable permit systems can reduce compliance costs and improve market liquidity, there is great interest in linking cap-and-trade …
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This paper discusses both the potential contribution that trade policy initiatives can make towards the achievement of … motivated geographical trade arrangements, including carbon free trade areas. We first suggest that trade policy is likely to be … next several decades will be growth more so than trade and its composition, and in turn, the size of trade seemingly …
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-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade. Using an optimal tax framework, we propose a method to decompose the leakage motive and the … terms-of-trade motive for emission price differentiation. We illustrate our method with a quantitative impact assessment of …
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