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    • Household gasoline demand in the United States 

      Schmalensee, Richard; Stoker, Thomas M. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1995)
      Continuing rapid growth in U.S. gasoline consumption threatens to exacerbate environmental and congestion problems. We use flexible semiparametric and nonparametric methods to guide analysis of household gasoline consumption, ...

    • Why are allowance prices so low? : an analysis of the SO2 emissions trading program 

      Ellerman, A. Denny; Montero, Juan-Pablo (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1996)
      This paper presents an analysis of the reduction in SO2 emissions by electric utilities between 1985 and 1993. We find that emissions have been reduced for reasons largely unrelated to the emission reduction mandate ...

    • 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, 1996)
      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 ...