Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

Welcome to CEEPR, the focus at MIT for research activity in energy economics since the Center's founding in the mid-1970s, and in environmental economics since the early 1990s.

CEEPR promotes rigorous and objective empirical research at MIT on issues related to energy and environmental policy to support decision-making by government and industry. The results of the research are disseminated through publications, workshops, educational programs and other public outreach activities.

Economics research at CEEPR is integrated with engineering and science in collaboration with faculty throughout MIT. The relevance and validity of the research is enhanced through cooperation with government and industry associates in countries around the globe.

The Center is jointly sponsored by:

MIT's Sloan School of Management
The Department of Economics
MIT Energy Initiative

In turn, CEEPR is one of the two MIT research centers sponsoring:

The Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

Collections in this community

Working Papers

Recent Submissions

Market-Based Emissions Regulation and Industry Dynamics

Fowlie, Meredith; Reguant, Mar; Ryan, Stephen P. (MIT CEEPR, 2013-01)

We assess the long-run dynamic implications of market-based regulation of carbon dioxide emissions in the US Portland cement industry. We consider several alternative policy designs, including mechanisms that use production ...
Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

Barreca, Alan; Clay, Karen; Deschênes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph (MIT CEEPR, 2012-01)

Adaptation is the only strategy that is guaranteed to be part of the world's climate strategy. Using the most comprehensive set of data files ever compiled on mortality and its determinants over the course of the 20th ...
Hit or Miss: Regulating Derivative Markets to Reduce Hedging Costs at Non-Financial Companies

Parsons, J.E. (MIT CEEPR, 2012-01)

Derivative markets are an important tool enabling non‐financial companies to reduce their risk and manage their financing. Effective regulation of these markets can lower companies hedging costs and help improve productivity. ...