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., Hughes, Jonathan E., Parker, Nathan C., Knittel, Christopher Roland
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101900
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7654-8641