Second-best instruments for near-term climate policy: Intensity targets vs. the safety valve

Current proposals for greenhouse gas emissions regulations in the United States mainly take the form of emissions caps with tradable permits. Since Weitzman's (1974) [3] study of prices vs. quantities, economic theory predicts that a price instrument is superior under uncertainty in the case of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Webster, Mort, Sue Wing, Ian, Jakobovits, Lisa
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98537