Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments introduced a cap-and-trade system for sulfur dioxide emissions from electric power plants in the United States. This paper analyzes the effects of that regulatory change on the prices charged by the two railroads that hauled low-sulfur coal east from...

Angenommen, Sie hätten ein zehnprozentiges Risiko, bei einem Verkehrsunfall ums Leben zu kommen. Oder Sie hätten ein ebenso hohes Risiko, grossen finanziellen Schaden zu erleiden. Wahrscheinlich würden Sie alles daransetzen, eine solche Katastrophe abzuwenden. Richtig? Warum unternehmen wir...

If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a...

The extent of future climate change is a policy choice. Using an integrated climate-economy assessment model, we estimate climate policy curves (CPCs) that link the price of carbon dioxide (CO2) to subsequent global temperatures. The resulting downward sloping CPCs quantify the inverse...