Energy Efficiency Standards Are More Regressive Than Energy Taxes: Theory and Evidence

Arik Levinson

NBER Working Paper No. 22956
Issued in December 2016

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I am grateful to the Sloan Foundation for financial support, to Duncan Hobbs, Grady Killeen, and Mark Noll for research assistance, and to Sarah Aldy, Axel Anderson, Karen Palmer, Hilary Sigman, and members of the NBER Environment and Energy Economics group for especially helpful suggestions. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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