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Discretionary Exemptions from Environmental Regulation: Flexibility for Good or for Ill

Dietrich Earnhart, Sarah Jacobson, Yusuke Kuwayama and Richard Woodward

Can We Make Social Information Programs More Effective? The Role of Identity and Values

Cristina Cattaneo, D’Adda, Giovanna, Massimo Tavoni and Jacopo Bonan

California’s Evolving Zero Emission Vehicle Program: Pulling New Technology into the Market

Virginia McConnell, Benjamin Leard and Fred Kardos

The Legal and Economic Case for an Auction Reserve Price in the EU Emissions Trading System

Leonie Reins, Carolyn Fischer, Dallas Burtraw, David Langlet, Åsa Löfgren, Michael Mehling, Stefan Weishaar, Lars Zetterberg, Harro van Asselt and Kati Kulovesi

Environmental Regulation and Product Attributes: The Case of European Passenger Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards

Joshua Linn and Yujie Lin

Looking Back at Fifty Years of the Clean Air Act

Joseph E. Aldy, Maximillian Auffhammer, Maureen Cropper, Arthur G. Fraas and Richard D. Morgenstern

China’s Unconventional Nationwide CO₂ Emissions Trading System: The Wide-Ranging Impacts of an Implicit Output Subsidy

Lawrence H. Goulder, Xianling Long, Jieyi Lu and Richard D. Morgenstern

What Does Ridesharing Replace?

Benjamin Leard and Jianwei Xing

Designing and Evaluating a US Carbon Tax Adjustment Mechanism

Marc Hafstead and Roberton Williams

Mechanisms to Reduce Emissions Uncertainty under a Carbon Tax

Marc Hafstead and Roberton Williams

Have US Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards Improved Social Welfare?

Benjamin Leard, Joshua Linn and Katalin Springel

Interpreting Tradable Credit Prices in Overlapping Vehicle Regulations

Benjamin Leard and Virginia McConnell

Three Prongs for Prudent Climate Policy

Richard Zeckhauser and Joseph E. Aldy

Encouraging Electrification through Energy Service Subscriptions

Kathryne Cleary and Karen Palmer

Inequality and Growth Impacts from Climate Change—Insights from South Africa

Johannes Emmerling, Soheil Shayegh and Shouro Dasgupta

Rolling the Dice in the Corridors of Power: William Nordhaus's Impacts on Climate Change Policy

Robert Stavins and Joseph E. Aldy

Co-Benefits and Regulatory Impact Analysis: Theory and Evidence from Federal Air Quality Regulations

Karen Palmer, Joseph E. Aldy, Matthew Kotchen, Mary Evans, Meredith Fowlie and Arik Levinson

The Macroeconomic Impact of Europe's Carbon Taxes

James Stock and Gilbert Metcalf

The Role of Flexibility and Planning in Repayment Discipline: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Pay-as-You-Go Off-Grid Electricity

Giovanna d'Adda, Mahreen Mahmud, Farah Said and Jacopo Bonan

Does Energy Star Certification Reduce Energy Use in Commercial Buildings?

Karen Palmer, Margaret A. Walls and Becka Brolinson

Supply-Side Reforms to Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands: Modeling the Implications for Climate Emissions, Revenues, and Production Shifts

Brian Prest

Quantities with Prices: Price-Responsive Allowance Supply in Environmental Markets

Dallas Burtraw, Charles Holt, Karen Palmer and William Shobe

Tradable Performance Standards in the Transportation Sector

Dallas Burtraw, Thomas Sterner, David Greene and Sonia Yeh

Benefits of Energy Technology Innovation Part 1: Power Sector Modeling Results

Daniel Shawhan, Christoph Funke and Steven Witkin

Benefits of Energy Technology Innovation Part 2: Economy-Wide Direct Air Capture Modeling Results

Marc Hafstead

Priorities and Effectiveness in Wildfire Management: Evidence from Fire Spread in the Western US

Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Andrew J. Plantinga and Randall Walsh

Inequality in Agency Responsiveness: Evidence from Salient Wildfire Events

Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Sarah Anderson and Andrew J. Plantinga

The Value of Time in the United States: Estimates from Nationwide Natural Field Experiments

Ariel Goldszmidt, John List, Robert Metcalfe, Ian Muir, V. Kerry Smith and Jenny Wang

Efficiency and Equity of an Outdoor Recreation Equipment Tax to Fund Public Lands

Margaret Walls and Matthew Ashenfarb

Experience with Competitive Procurements and Centralized Resource Planning to Advance Clean Electricity

Heidi Bishop Ratz and Kathryne Cleary

The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents

Mitesh Kataria, Alan Krupnick, Elina Lampi, Åsa Löfgren, Ping Qin, Thomas Sterner, Xiaojun Yang and Fredrick Carlsson

Customer-Side Energy Management: What Role Should Utilities Play?

Tim Brennan

Distributional Consequences of Climate Change Impacts on Energy Demand across Italian Households

Enrica De Cian and Lorenza Campagnolo

Price Limits in a Tradable Performance Standard

William Pizer, Banban Wang and Clayton Munnings

Governing Climate Geoengineering: Side-Payments Are Not Enough

Anna Lou Abatayo, Valentina Bosetti, Marco Casari, Massimo Tavoni and Riccardo Ghidoni

Arbitrage Deterrence: A Theory of International Drug Pricing

Stephen Salant

Climate Royalty Surcharges

Brian Prest and James Stock

Earth Observations Can Enable Cost-Effective Conservation of Eastern North Pacific Blue Whales: A Value of Information Analysis

Richard Bernknopf, Andrew Steinkruger and Yusuke Kuwayama

The Value of Advanced Energy Funding: Projected Effects of Proposed US Funding for Advanced Energy Technologies

Kathryne Cleary, Christoph Funke, Steven Witkin and Daniel Shawhan

Establishing Utility-Scale Solar Projects: Federal Involvement

Valkyrie Buffa, Lindsay Rich and Arthur G. Fraas

Effects of Climate Change on Heat- and Cold-Related Mortality: A Literature Review to Inform Updated Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon

Daniel Raimi

Effectiveness, Spillovers, and Well-Being Effects of Driving Restriction Policies

Luis Sarmiento, Nicole Wägner and Aleksandar Zaklan

The Macroeconomic Effects of a Carbon Tax to Meet the US Paris Agreement Target: The Role of Firm Creation and Technology Adoption

Gilbert Metcalf and Alan Finkelstein Shapiro

Macro-Financial Transition Risks in the Fight Against Global Warming

Emanuele Campiglio and Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

A Discounting Rule for the Social Cost of Carbon

Richard Newell, William Pizer and Brian Prest

The Effect of Income on Vehicle Demand: Evidence from China’s New Vehicle Market

Chang Shen and Joshua Linn

Understanding the Resistance to Carbon Taxes: A Case Study of Sweden

Jens Ewald, Thomas Sterner and Erik Sterner

The Effect of Changing Marginal-Cost to Physical-Order Dispatch in the Power Sector

Raúl Gutiérrez-Meave, Juan Rosellon and Luis Sarmiento

Smart Thermostats, Automation, and Time-Varying Prices

Joshua Blonz, Karen Palmer, Casey Wichman and Derek C. Wietelman

Border Carbon Adjustments without Full (or Any) Carbon Pricing

Erin Campbell and William Pizer