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markets and environmental regulation. We emphasize the substantive contributions of recent papers while also highlighting how … the topics examined by this literature--especially auctions, investment, productivity and innovation, and regulation …
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Electric vehicles are declining in cost so rapidly that they may claim a large share of the vehicle market by 2030. This paper examines a set of practical regulatory design considerations for fuel-economy standards or greenhouse gas standards in the context of highly uncertain electric vehicle...
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This paper describes a novel approach to estimating the marginal cost of air pollution regulation, then applies it to … estimates. Some evidence suggests that using price rather than existing quantity regulation in these markets may increase social …
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Tradable performance standards are widely used sectoral regulatory policies. Examples include the US lead phasedown, fuel economy standards for automobiles, renewable portfolio standards, low carbon fuel standards, and--most recently--China's new national carbon market. At the same time, theory...
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In recent years, cases in which state governments chose to override federal environmental regulation with tighter … paper argues that this change arose at least in part because of a shift in the type of regulation used at the federal level …, from command-and-control regulation toward more incentive-based regulation. Under an incentive-based federal regulation, a …
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the sum of consumer and producer surplus) in the presence of incomplete regulation (leakage) or market power by analyzing … regulation, I show that under certain conditions an intensity standard can yield higher welfare than any emissions tax (including … more on substitution effects than output effects to reduce emissions. With incomplete regulation or market power, this …
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Seminal work by Weitzman (1974) revealed prices are preferred to quantities when marginal benefits are relatively flat compared to marginal costs. We extend this comparison to indexed policies, where quantities are proportional to an index, such as output. We find that policy preferences hinge...
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Quantity-based regulation with banking allows regulated firms to shift obligations across time in response to periods …
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levels of carbon emissions (and higher annual changes)--in all sectors over three continents, Asia, Europe, and North America …
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"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a …
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