polices to manage quantities under a pollution tax. Importantly, it can be difficult to know how to evaluate these policies … this paper, we propose an objective function to evaluate these alternative "carbon tax policies to meet an emission target …

infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We … transportation, and counterfactual policies. We show that the air pollution emissions per mile of new US vehicles has fallen …What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically …

the ability of firms to substitute from carbon emissions into labor or capital …One country that tries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may fear that other countries get a competitive advantage and … increase emissions ("leakage"). Estimates from computable general equilibrium (CGE) models such as Elliott et al (2010a …

Estimating the cost to society from a ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere requires connecting a … social cost of carbon (SCC), is large and growing. Prior work has largely focused on better constraining the values of …

We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a … demographic groups and generated a more equitable overall distribution of emissions even after controlling for its lower aggregate … emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …

Carbon control policies in OECD countries commonly differentiate emission prices in favor of energy … differentiation does not substantially reduce the overall economic costs of carbon abatement compared with a simple rule of uniform …

indicates that strengthening a country's institutions decreases its pollution through relocating dirty industries abroad, though … increases pollution in other countries. Fifth, cross-country differences in the composition of output between clean and dirty … industries explain more of the global distribution of emissions than differences in the techniques used for production do. The …

regulations suggests we are more likely to overestimate the costs of cap-and-trade, and therefore the price of carbon permits …

targets. By contrast, negotiating a single internationally-binding minimum carbon price (the proceeds from which are … attempt to sketch out, mostly with verbal arguments, the sense in which each country's extra cost from a higher emissions … emissions in response to the higher price. Some implications are discussed. While the paper could be centered on a more formal …

quantities) the negotiated uniform price on carbon emissions embodies an automatic "countervailing force" against free …, the theoretical model shows that population-weighted majority rule for a uniform price on carbon emissions can come as … national entities, a meaningful comprehensive treaty involves negotiating n different binding emissions quotas (whether …