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    • Analysis of the Bush proposal to reduce the SO₃ cap 

      Ellerman, A. Denny (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2002)
      This paper evaluates President Bush's recent proposal to reduce the cap on total SO2 emissions using a model of emissions banking that fits the experience so far under Title IV. It provides a brief introduction to emissions ...

    • Trading quasi-emission permits 

      Montero, Juan-Pablo (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2002)
      I study the design of environmental policies for a regulator that has incomplete information on firms' emissions and costs of production and abatement (e.g., air pollution in cities with numerous small polluting sources). ...

    • Considerations for designing a tradable permit system to control SO₂ emissions in China 

      Ellerman, A. Denny; Kan, Hongjun (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2001)
      As China's economy has grown, atmospheric pollution has become a greater problem and a matter of increasing concern to policymakers at all levels of government. One of the principal pollutants has been sulfur dioxide (SO2), ...