Environmental Policy and Time Consistency


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As instruments for controlling pollution, how do emissions taxes and emissions trading compare in terms of the incentives they create to adopt cleaner technologies? Emissions taxes may have a slight advantage over emissions trading.










Environmental Regulation and Market Power


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Emissions taxes, tradeable emission permits and voluntary compliance policies are becoming the instruments of choice in controlling environmental problems at the national and international level. This text uses research in order to appraise their efficiency in varying market conditions.




Investment Subsidies and Time-Consistent Environmental Policy


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The Department of Economics of the University of Warwick presents the full text of the research paper entitled "Investment Subsidies and Time-Consistent Environmental Policy," by Lisandro Abrego and Carlo Perroni, that was published in June 1999. The paper is in PDF format. The authors highlight an economic model related to how investment subsidies may be used to alleviate distribution-related commitment problems in environmental policies when pollution abatement has a dynamic dimension.




Picoeconomics


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Dr. Ainslie examines an elementary human paradox: that we are endangered by our own wishes.







Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy


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This volume presents six new papers on environmental and energy economics and policy in the United States. Rebecca Davis, J. Scott Holladay, and Charles Sims analyze recent trends in and forecasts of coal-fired power plant retirements with and without new climate policy. Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell examine the efficiency of pricing for electricity, natural gas, and gasoline. James Archsmith, Erich Muehlegger, and David Rapson provide a prospective analysis of future pathways for electric vehicle adoption. Kenneth Gillingham considers the consequences of such pathways for the design of fuel vehicle economy standards. Frank Wolak investigates the long-term resource adequacy in wholesale electricity markets with significant intermittent renewables. Finally, Barbara Annicchiarico, Stefano Carattini, Carolyn Fischer, and Garth Heutel review the state of research on the interactions between business cycles and environmental policy.




Environmental Tax Policy and Intergenerational Distribution


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This paper integrates both the efficiency and intergenerational distributional aspects of environmental taxes by not only exploring the efficiency case for environmental taxes but also investigating the intergenerational implications of environmental tax reform.