The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies

Joseph Aldy and William Pizer

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

Abstract: We develop a precise definition of the competitiveness impacts of environmental regulation that can be estimated with available domestic production, trade, and energy price data. We use this definition and a 9-year panel of nearly 450 U.S. manufacturing industries to estimate and predict the effects of a U.S.-only $15 per ton CO2 price. We find competitiveness effects on the order of a 0.5 to 0.8 percent decline in production among energy-intensive manufacturing industries, representing about one-sixth of the policy's impacts on these firms' output.

JEL-codes: F18 Q52 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-05
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