Distributional Aspects of Energy and Climate Policies

Edited by Mark A. Cohen, Professor of Management and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and University Fellow, Resources for the Future, US, Don Fullerton, Gutgsell Professor of Finance, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, US and Robert H. Topel, Isidore Brown and Gladys J. Brown Distinguished Service Professor in Urban and Labor Economics, University of Chicago, US

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Mark A. Cohen, Don Fullerton and Robert H. Topel1. Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel (2010), ‘On the Economics of Climate Policy’2. Manasi Deshpande and Michael Greenstone (2010), ‘Comment on “On the Economics of Climate Policy”: Is Climate Change Mitigation the Ultimate Arbitrage Opportunity?’3. Louis Kaplow, Elisabeth Moyer and David A. Weisbach (2010), ‘The Social Evaluation of Intergenerational Policies and Its Application to Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change’4. Martin L. Weitzman (2010), ‘Comment on “The Social Evaluation of Intergenerational Policies and Its Application to Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change”’5. Don Fullerton and Garth Heutel (2010), ‘Analytical General Equilibrium Effects of Energy Policy on Output and Factor Prices’6. Samuel Kortum (2010), ‘Comment on “Analytical General Equilibrium Effects of Energy Policy on Output and Factor Prices”’7. Joshua Blonz, Dallas Burtraw and Margaret A. Walls (2010), ‘Climate Policy’s Uncertain Outcomes for Households: The Role of Complex Allocation Schemes in Cap-and-Trade’8. Arik M. Levinson (2010), ‘Comment on “Climate Policy’s Uncertain Outcomes for Households: The Role of Complex Allocation Schemes in Cap-and-Trade”’9. Ian W.H. Parry and Roberton C. Williams III (2010), ‘What are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?’10. William Randolph (2010), ‘Comment on “What are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?”’11. Sebastian Rausch, Gilbert E. Metcalf, John M. Reilly and Sergey Paltsev (2010), ‘Distributional Implications of Alternative U.S. Greenhouse Gas Control Measures’12. Shanta Devarajan (2010), ‘Comment on “Distributional Implications of Alternative U.S. Greenhouse Gas Control Measures”’13. Dale W. Jorgenson, Richard Goettle, Mun S. Ho, Daniel T. Slesnick and Peter J. Wilcoxen (2010), ‘The Distributional Impact of Climate Policy’14. Thomas Hertel (2010), ‘Comment on “The Distributional Impact of Climate Policy”’15. Joshua Elliott, Ian Foster, Kenneth Judd, Elisabeth Moyer and Todd Munson (2010), ‘CIM-EARTH: Framework and Case Study’16. Don Fullerton (2010), ‘Comment on “CIM-EARTH: Framework and Case Study”’17. Christoph Boehringer, Carolyn Fischer and Knut Einar Rosendahl (2010), ‘The Global Effects of Subglobal Climate Policies’18. Rodney D. Ludema (2010), ‘Comment on “The Global Effects of Subglobal Climate Policies”’19. Charles D. Kolstad (2010), ‘Equity, Heterogeneity and International Environmental Agreements’20. Scott Barrett (2010), ‘Comment on “Equity, Heterogeneity and International Environmental Agreements”’