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Chapter 8: Economic Modeling of Carbon Fee-and-Dividend Policies
https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811213960_0008Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
Abstract:
This chapter describes how economic models are used to answer questions about policy changes, specifically in the context of a carbon fee-and-dividend system. A carbon fee-and-dividend is a price on carbon dioxide emissions that returns the revenues gained to ordinary households in the form of a monthly check. The chapter describes, in nontechnical terms, the economic models and modeling processes involved and how they are similar and different from climate models…
Keywords:
- Economics
- economic modeling
- policy
- policy analysis
- United States
- emissions
- carbon fee
- carbon tax
- carbon pricing
- carbon fee-and-dividend
- fee-and-dividend
- citizens’ climate lobby
- CCL
- carbon
- carbon dioxide
- emissions
- carbon emissions
- carbon dioxide emissions
- air pollution
- sulfur oxides
- nitrogen oxides
- mercury
- electricity
- electricity sector
- power
- power sector
- coal
- gas
- natural gas
- carbon capture
- CCS
- wind
- solar
- nuclear
- power sector
- border adjustment
- carbon tariff
- Alaska
- Alaska Permanent Fund
