The design and implementation of US climate policy / / edited by Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816246703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-58377-1; 9786613896223; 0-226-92198-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Collana: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report; National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
• Altri autori (Persone): FullertonDon; WolframCatherine D
• Disciplina: 363.738/745610973
• Soggetti: Climatic changes - Government policy - United States; Global warming - Government policy - United States; Climatic changes - Government policy - Economic aspects - United States; Global warming - Government policy - Economic aspects - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This book contains the proceedings of an NBER conference held in Washington, DC, on May 13-14, 2010".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- National Bureau of Economic Research -- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and Summary -- 1. Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package -- 2. Climate Policy and Labor Markets -- 3. Limiting Emissions and Trade: Some Basic Ideas -- 4. Regulatory Choice with Pollution and Innovation -- 5. Spillovers from Climate Policy to Other Pollutants -- 6. Markets for Anthropogenic Carbon within the Larger Carbon Cycle -- 7. Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies -- 8. Belts and Suspenders: Interactions among Climate Policy Regulations -- 9. Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives: An Evaluation of the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program -- 10. Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a ; Federal Cap- and- Trade Program -- 11. Upstream versus Downstream Implementation of Climate Policy -- 12. The Economics of Carbon Offsets -- 13. Monitoring and Enforcement of Climate Policy -- 14. How Can Policy Encourage Economically Sensible Climate Adaptation? -- 15. Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy: The Economics of Environmental Policy Phase- Ins -- 16. Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation -- 17. Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat? Evidence from US Corn and Soybean Yields -- 18. Carbon Prices and Automobile Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Extensive and Intensive Margins -- 19. Evaluating the Slow Adoption of Energy Efficient Investments: Are Renters Less Likely to Have Energy Efficient Appliances? -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Economic research on climate change has been crucial in advancing our understanding of the consequences associated with global warming as well as the costs and benefits of the various policies that might reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. As nations work to develop climate policies, economic insights into their design and implementation are ever more important. With a balance between theoretical and empirical approaches, The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy looks at the possible effects of various climate policies on a range of economic outcomes. The studies that comprise the volume examine topics that include the coordination-or lack thereof-between the federal and state governments, implications of monitoring and enforcing climate policy, and the specific consequences of various climate policies for the agricultural, automotive, and buildings sectors.