Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy: Volume 4

Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy is a rigorous, careful, and nonpartisan research with a high policy impact on environmental and energy economics. It focuses on the effective and efficient management of environmental and energy challenges, offering new evidence on the intended and unintended consequences, market and nonmarket effects, and incentive and distributional impacts of policy initiatives and market developments.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 175 pages
Publication date: 05 June 2023
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy is a rigorous, careful, and nonpartisan research that significantly impacts environmental and energy economics. It focuses on the effective and efficient management of environmental and energy challenges. Research papers in this volume provide new evidence on the intended and unintended consequences, market and nonmarket effects, and incentive and distributional impacts of policy initiatives and market developments.

This volume presents six new papers on environmental and energy economics and policy. Gilbert Metcalf examines the distributional impacts of substituting a vehicle miles-traveled tax for the existing federal excise tax in the United States. David Weisbach, Samuel Kortum, Michael Wang, and Yujia Yao consider solutions to the leakage problem of climate policy with differential tax policies on the supply and demand for fossil fuels and on domestic production and consumption. Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Kyle Meng, and Paige Weber quantify and decompose recent trends in air pollution disparities in the US electricity sector. Severin Borenstein and Ryan Kellogg provide a comparative analysis of different incentive-based mechanisms to reduce emissions in the electricity sector on a path to zero emissions. Sarah Anderson, Andrew Plantinga, and Matthew Wibbenmeyer document distributional differences in the allocation of US wildfire prevention projects. Finally, Mark Curtis and Ioana Marinescu provide new evidence on the quality and quantity of emerging "green" jobs in the United States.

These research papers contribute to our understanding of the complex challenges facing the environment and energy sectors and provide valuable insights for policymakers and stakeholders. The findings of this research can help inform decision-making processes and promote sustainable and equitable development.

Weight: 356g
Dimension: 152 x 230 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780226828275