TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fullerton, Don
AU  - Wolfram, Catherine
TI  - The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy: An Introduction
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17499
PY  - 2011
Y2  - October 2011
DO  - 10.3386/w17499
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17499
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17499.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Don Fullerton
Department of Finance
University of Illinois
515 East Gregory Drive, BIF Box#30 (MC520)
Champaign, IL  61820
Tel: 217/244-3621
Fax: 217/244-3102
E-Mail: dfullert@illinois.edu

Catherine Wolfram
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA  94720-1900
Tel: 510/642-2588
Fax: 510/643-1420
E-Mail: wolfram@haas.berkeley.edu
M1  - published as Don Fullerton, Catherine Wolfram. "Introduction and Summary to "The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy"," in Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram, editors, "The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy" University of Chicago Press (2012)

M3  - presented at "The Design & Implementation of US Climate Policy", May 13-14, 2010
AB  - While economic models have already proven useful to analyze big picture questions about climate policy such as the choice between a carbon tax or cap-and-trade permit system, the 19 chapters in this book show how economic models also are useful to address the many remaining smaller questions that arise as policy is implemented. For example, chapters consider: the tradeoffs policymakers confront in deciding whether to implement the policy upstream on energy producers or downstream on energy users; how to monitor and enforce climate policy; how Federal actions might interact with climate policies at other levels of government or with other non-climate policies; the distributional effects of different policy variations; policies that might impact particular sectors, including residential energy use, agriculture and transportation; and specific questions regarding offsets, trade, innovation, and adaptation.
ER  -