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The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy

Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram

Abstract

Economic research on climate change has been crucial in advancing our understanding of the consequences of global warming as well as the costs and benefits of the various policies that might reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. As nations work to develop climate policies, economic insights into their design and implementation are ever more important. With a balance between theoretical and empirical approaches, this book looks at the possible effects of various climate policies on a range of economic outcomes. The studies that comprise the book examine topics which include the coordination—or ... More

Keywords: economic research, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, climate policies, economic outcomes, emissions, federal government, state government, enforcing climate policy

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2012 Print ISBN-13: 9780226269146
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: September 2013 DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226921983.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Don Fullerton, editor

Catherine Wolfram, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report

National Bureau of Economic Research

Acknowledgments

Introduction and Summary

Don Fullerton, and Catherine Wolfram

I Climate Policy in the Broader Context

1 Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package

Gilbert E. Metcalf, Aparna Mathur, and Kevin A. Hassett

2 Climate Policy and Labor Markets

Olivier Deschênes

3 Limiting Emissions and Trade

Kala Krishna

4. Regulatory Choice with Pollution and Innovation

Charles D. Kolstad

5. Spillovers from Climate Policy to Other Pollutants

Stephen P. Holland

6 Markets for Anthropogenic Carbon within the Larger Carbon Cycle

Severin Borenstein

II Interactions with Other Policies

7 Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies

Lawrence H. Goulder, and Robert N. Stavins

8 Belts and Suspenders

Arik Levinson

9 Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives

Matthew J. Kotchen

10 Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program

Meredith Fowlie

III Design Features of Climate Policy

11 Upstream versus Downstream Implementation of Climate Policy

Erin T. Mansur

12 The Economics of Carbon Offsets

James B. Bushnell, and Ryan Sandler

13 Monitoring and Enforcement of Climate Policy

Hilary Sigman

14 How Can Policy Encourage Economically Sensible Climate Adaptation?

V. Kerry Smith

15 Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy

Roberton C. Williams III

IV Sector-Specific Issues

16 Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation

Matthew E. Kahn

17 Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat?

Michael J. Roberts, and Wolfram Schlenker

18 Carbon Prices and Automobile Greenhouse Gas Emissions The Extensive and Intensive Margins

Christopher R. Knittel, and Ryan Sandler

19 Evaluating the Slow Adoption of Energy Efficient Investments

Lucas W. Davis

End Matter

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index