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Policies to address environmental and natural resource management are often implemented at the group level. The defining feature of such policies is that penalties or rewards are based on group rather than individual performance, or rights are allocated to a group rather than to individuals....
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damage of emissions. This formula, which holds under quite plausible assumptions, reveals that the damage is proportional to …
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Rossi-Hansberg (2021) to measure the local social monetary cost of CO2 emissions: the Local Social Cost of Carbon (LSCC …
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reductions of CO2 emissions cost-effectively in the United States. There is less agreement, however, among economists and others …
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Market-based environmental policies are widely adopted on the basis of allocative efficiency. However, there is a growing distributional concern that market forces could increase the pollution exposure gap between disadvantaged and other communities by spatially reallocating pollution. We...
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-level based on emissions or energy intensity and a measure of import penetration. Dynamic updating of permit allocations has the … potential to mitigate adverse competitiveness impacts and emissions leakage in eligible industries. It can also undermine the … cost-effectiveness of permit market outcomes, as more of the mandated emissions reductions must then be achieved by sources …
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This paper develops a simple model of a polluting industry and an innovating firm. The polluting industry is faced with regulation and costly abatement. Regulation may be taxes or marketable permits. The innovating firm invests in R&D and develops technologies which reduce the cost of pollution...
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ante distortions due to the anticipation of transition relief (such as by receiving more free permits for greater emissions …
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In recent years, cases in which state governments chose to override federal environmental regulation with tighter regulations of their own have become increasingly common, even for pollutants that have substantial spillovers across states. This paper argues that this change arose at least in...
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gases, especially through emission trading. Climate policies present the novel problem of integrating emissions reductions … that are relatively easy to monitor (such as carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels) with those that may be very … difficult to monitor (such as some emissions of other greenhouse gases). The paper documents the heterogeneity in monitoring …
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