Some Inconvenient Truths about Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies

Climate policy has favored costly measures that implicitly or explicitly subsidize lowcarbon fuels.We simulate four transportation sector policies: cap and trade (CAT), ethanol subsidies, a renewable fuel standard (RFS), and a lowcarbon fuel standard. Our simulations confirm that alternatives to CAT...

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Main Authors: Holland, Stephen P. (Author), Hughes, Jonathan E. (Author), Parker, Nathan C. (Author), Knittel, Christopher Roland (Contributor)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MIT Press, 2016-03-28T19:13:26Z.
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