Time-of-use (TOU) pricing for electricity is an effective means to allocate electricity, though regulators are increasingly employing non-market strategies to provide information and induce conservation. We evaluate a large-scale field trial in which households facing TOU pricing were given an...

This study investigates the distributional implications of the revenue-neutral carbon tax policy in British Columbia. We use a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Canadian economy and disaggregate households into deciles by annual income using data from a large household...

Carbon taxes are viewed by most economists as a cost-effective approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Concerns over adverse impacts to disposable income, and corresponding political acceptability, have led many to propose a "fee-and-dividend" approach, whereby revenue from carbon taxes...