Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, Volume 4.

• Author: Kotchen, Matthew J.

This volume presents six new papers on environmental and energy economics and policy.

Gilbert Metcalf examines the distributional impacts of substituting a vehicle miles traveled tax for the existing federal excise tax in the United States.

David Weisbach, Samuel Kortum, Michael Wang, and Yujia Yao consider solutions to the leakage problem of climate policy with differential tax policies on the supply of and demand for fossil fuels and on domestic production and consumption.

Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Kyle Meng, and Paige Weber quantify and decompose recent trends in air pollution disparities from the US electricity sector.

Severin Borenstein and Ryan Kellogg provide a comparative analysis of different incentive-based mechanisms to reduce emissions in the electricity sector on a...