Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade
27 Pages Posted: 17 Nov 2015
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Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade
Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade
Date Written: November 16, 2015
Abstract
This essay provides an overview of the major emissions trading programs of the past thirty years on which significant documentation exists, and draws a number of important lessons for future applications of this environmental policy instrument. References to a larger number of other emissions trading programs that have been implemented or proposed are included.
Keywords: market-based instruments, cap-and-trade, leaded gasoline phasedown, Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, sulfur dioxide, acid rain, carbon dioxide, global climate change, European Union Emissions Trading System
JEL Classification: Q540, Q580, Q400, Q480
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