emissions directly, policy makers may tax gasoline even though per-gallon emissions vary across vehicles. This paper estimates …. First, we show that vehicle emissions are positively correlated with vehicle elasticities for miles traveled with respect to … performs very poorly in eliminating deadweight loss associated with vehicle emissions; in many years in our sample over 75 …

Economists have tended to view cap and trade (or, more generally, emissions pricing) as more cost-effective than a … clean energy standard (CES) for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity generation …. This stems in part from the finding that, in terms of cost-effectiveness, a CES relies too much on emissions abatement …

of variation and correlation in country-level carbon dioxide emissions and GDP suggests the ranking of an emissions …

Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity … shadow-price on carbon dioxide emissions. We examine alternative designs of three such instruments - carbon taxes, cap …

nations to put in place policies that bring about meaningful reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases. Due to the … ubiquity and diversity of emissions of greenhouse gases in most economies, as well as the variation in abatement costs among …

California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 limits California's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2020 to their … opportunities truly exist to substantially reduce emissions at no cost, or whether studies reaching such conclusions may simply …. In some cases, the studies focus on the costs of particular actions to reduce emissions, but fail to consider the …