Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research: Recent submissions

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    • Implementing environmental taxes on intemediate goods in open economies 

      Poterba, James M.; Rotemberg, Julio (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1994)
      Many proposed and actual environmental taxes are taxes on intermediate goods. These goods, such as fossil fuels, are typically tradable, and they are also used in the production of many tradable final goods. How should ...

    • Options, the value of capital, and investment 

      Abel, Andrew B. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1995)
      Continuing rapid growth in U.S. gasoline consumption threatens to exacerbate environmental and congestion problems. We use flexible semiparametric and nonparametric methods to guide analysis of household gasoline consumption, ...

    • System average rates of U.S. investor-owned electric utilities : a statistical benchmark study 

      Berndt, Ernst R.; Epstein, Roy J.; Doane, Michael J. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1995)
      Using multiple regression methods, we have undertaken a statistical "benchmark" study comparing system average electricity rates charged by three California utilities with 96 other US utilities over the 1984-93 time period. ...