Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research: Recent submissions

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    • Allowance trading activity and state regulatory rulings : evidence from the U.S. Acid Rain Program 

      Bailey, Elizabeth M. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1998)
      The U.S. Acid Rain Program is one of the first, and by far the most extensive, applications of a market based approach to pollution control. From the beginning, there has been concern whether utilities would participate ...

    • Sources of productivity growth in the American coal industry 

      Ellerman, Thomas M.; Stoker, Thomas M.; Berndt, Ernst R. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1998)
      This paper develops new techniques to assess the expanse of the geographic market under varying supply and demand conditions and applies these techniques to the current wholesale electricity market in the western United ...

    • The geographic expanse of the market for wholesale electricity 

      Bailey, Elizabeth M. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1998)
      This paper exploits a large mine-level database to contribute to our understanding of the micro-sources of productivity growth. The database contains observations for labor input and coal output at every mine in the United ...