Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Reports: Recent submissions
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Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Clean and Renewable Energy Standards for Electricity
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-07-17)We examine the efficiency and distributional impacts of greenhouse gas policies directed toward the electricity sector in a model that links a “top-down” general equilibrium representation of the U.S. economy with a ... -
Cap-and-Trade Climate Policies with Price-Regulated Industries: How Costly are Free Allowances?
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-07-10)We examine the impacts of alternative cap-and-trade allowance allocation designs in a model of the U.S. economy where price-regulated electric utilities generate 30% of total CO2 emissions. Our empirical model embeds a ... -
An Integrated Assessment Framework for Uncertainty Studies in Global and Regional Climate Change: The IGSM-CAM
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-06-18)This paper describes an integrated assessment framework for uncertainty studies in global and regional climate change. In this framework, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Integrated Global System Model (IGSM), ...
