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    • Investment in Energy Infrastructure and the Tax Code 

      Metcalf, Gilbert E. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Research Policy, 2009-10)
      Federal tax policy provides a broad array of incentives for energy investment. I review those policies and construct estimates of marginal effective tax rates for different energy capital investments as of 2007. Effective ...

    • Modeling the Impact of Warming in Climate Change Economics 

      Pindyck, Robert S. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2010-01)
      Any economic analysis of climate change policy requires some model that describes the impact of warming on future GDP and consumption. Most integrated assessment models (IAMs) relate temperature to the level of real GDP ...

    • Cap-and-Trade Properties under Different Scheme Designs 

      Taschini, Luca; Grüll, Georg (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2009-11)
      This paper examines the key design mechanisms of existing and proposed cap-and-trade markets. First, it is shown that the hybrid systems under investigation (safety-valve with offsets, price floor using a subsidy, price ...