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The Welfare Impact of Indirect Pigouvian Taxation: Evidence from Transportation
Knittel, Christopher R.; Sandler, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
emissions directly, policy makers may tax gasoline even though per-gallon emissions vary across vehicles. This paper estimates … increases the optimal second-best uniform gasoline tax. Second, and perhaps more importantly, we show that a uniform tax … percent of the deadweight loss remains under the optimal second-best gasoline tax. Substantial improvements to market …
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Meeting Urban Housing Needs: Do People Really Come to the Nuisance?
Depro, Brooks M.; Timmins, Christopher; O'Neil, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Understanding the forces that lead to correlations between pollution exposure, poverty, and race is crucial to the formation of sound environmental justice (EJ) policy. In particular, what are the roles of disproportionate siting of pollution sources versus post-siting housing market dynamics...
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The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation
Stavins, Robert Norman; Chan, Gabriel; Stowe, Robert; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
hostility toward cap and trade in debates about U.S. climate legislation may reflect the broader political environment of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652873
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Getting Cars Off the Road: The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program
Cropper, Maureen L.; Jiang, Yi; Alberini, Anna; Baur, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Ground-level ozone remains a serious problem in the United States. Because ozone non-attainment is a summer problem, episodic rather than continuous controls of ozone precursors are possible. We evaluate the costs and effectiveness of an episodic scheme that requires people to buy permits to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008601708
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Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution and inferring deaths from "missing children" in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774612
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Greenhouse Gas Reductions under Low Carbon Fuel Standards?
Holland, Stephen P.; Knittel, Christopher R.; Hughes, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
welfare. We simulate the outcomes of a national LCFS, focusing on gasoline and ethanol as the high- and low-carbon fuels. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088801
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Who Pays a Price on Carbon?
Kolstad, Charles D.; Grainger, Corbett A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
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/10005037683
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What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California's NOx Trading Program
Holland, Stephen P.; Fowlie, Meredith; Mansur, Erin T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
A perceived advantage of cap-and-trade programs over more prescriptive environmental regulation is that enhanced compliance flexibility and cost effectiveness can make more stringent emissions reductions politically feasible. However, increased compliance flexibility can also result in an...
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Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This essay revisits the question of instrument choice for the regulation of externalities in the context of climate change. The central point is that the Pigouvian prescription to equate marginal control costs with the expected marginal benefits of damage reduction should guide the design of...
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Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Martin, Ralf; Muûls, Mirabelle; Preux, Laure B. de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
When regulated firms are offered compensation to prevent them from relocating, efficiency requires that payments be distributed across firms so as to equalize marginal relocation probabilities, weighted by the damage caused by relocation. We formalize this fundamental economic logic and apply it...
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