Browsing Working Papers by Author "Schmalensee, Richard"
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1996 update on compliance and emissions trading under the U.S. acid rain program
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1998)November 1997This paper reports on the second year of compliance with the sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions-reduction and -trading provisions of the Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). The material is intended ... -
Auction design and the market for sulfur dioxide emissions
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1996)Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 created a market for electric utility emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2). Recent papers have argued that flaws in the design of the auctions that are part of this market have ... -
Book review : three books on global climate change
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Comparing greenhouse gases for policy purposes
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1993)In order to derive optimal policies for greenhouse gas emissions control, the discounted marginal damages of emissions of different gases must be compared. The greenhouse warming potential (GWP) index, which is most often ... -
The costs of environmental protection
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1993)Recently, some have argued that tougher environmental policies can create jobs, stimulate innovation, and enhance competitiveness. On this view, economic side effects make environmental protection a sort of green free ... -
Economic development and the structure of the demand for commerial energy
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1998.)To deepen the understanding of the relation between economic development and energy demand, this study estimates the Engel curves that relate per-capita energy consumption in major economic sectors to per-capita GDP. Panel ... -
Evaluating Policies to Increase the Generation of Electricity from Renewable Energy
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-05)Focusing on the U.S. and the E.U., this essay seeks to advance four main propositions. First, the incidence of the short-run costs of programs to subsidize the generation of electricity from renewable sources varies with ... -
Greenhouse policy architectures and institutions
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Household gasoline demand in the United States
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1995)Continuing rapid growth in U.S. gasoline consumption threatens to exacerbate environmental and congestion problems. We use flexible semiparametric and nonparametric methods to guide analysis of household gasoline consumption, ... -
Renewable Electricity Generation in the United States
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2009-11)This paper provides an overview of the use of renewable energy sources to generate electricity in the United States and a critical analysis of the federal and state policies that have supported the deployment of renewable ... -
World energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions : 1950-2050
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1995)Emissions of carbon dioxide form combustion of fossil fuels, which may contribute to long-term climate change, are projected through 2050 using reduced form models estimated with national-level panel data for the period ...
