Distributional Implications of Alternative U.S. Greenhouse Gas Control Measures

We analyze the distributional and efficiency impacts of different allowance allocation schemes motivated by recently proposed U.S. climate legislation for a national cap and trade system using a new dynamic computable general equilibrium model of the U.S. economy. The USREP model tracks nine differe...

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Main Authors: Paltsev, Sergey, Rausch, Sebastian, Reilly, John M, Metcalf, Gilbert E
Other Authors: MIT Energy Initiative
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Berkeley Electronic Press 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60912
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5595-0968
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3287-0732