Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade

Richard Schmalensee and Robert Stavins

Working Paper Series from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government

Abstract: This essay provides an overview of the major emissions trading programs of the past thirty years on which significant documentation exists, and draws a number of important lessons for future applications of this environmental policy instrument. References to a larger number of other emissions trading programs that have been implemented or proposed are included.

JEL-codes: Q40 Q48 Q54 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-11
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Journal Article: Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap and Trade (2017)
Working Paper: Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade (2016)
Working Paper: Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade (2015)
Working Paper: Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade (2015)
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