Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies
Can supply-side environmental policies that limit the extraction of fossil fuels reduce CO2 emissions?
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The Impacts of the U.S.-China Trade War
The trade war has received an enormous amount of attention. Its impacts today have been limited because the U.S. and China have been a bit restrained.
Tax Reform for Progressivity: A Pragmatic Approach
In the coming decades, federal spending will need to grow just to enable the government to continue to provide the services it does today.
Evaluating Regulatory Performance: Learning from and Institutionalizing Retrospective Analysis of EPA Regulations
A well-functioning environmental regulatory program makes the American people better off by protecting the air we breathe, water we drink, and food we eat.
First-Price Auctions with Budget Constraints
Consider a first-price sealed-bid auction with interdependent valuations and private budget constraints.
How to Increase Growth While Raising Revenue: Reforming the Corporate Tax Code
Despite the substantial revenue potential of corporate taxation, the United States currently collects about the lowest corporate revenue (only 1 percent of U.S. GDP) among the advanced economies.
The Direct Effect of Taxes and Transfers on Changes in the U.S. Income Distribution, 1967–2015
Scholars have increasingly drawn attention to rising levels of income inequality in the United States.
Carbon Tax Review and Updating: Institutionalizing an Act-Learn-Act Approach to U.S. Climate Policy
The design of climate change policy must address a number of key uncertainties, including the impacts of climate change, the economics of a carbon tax, and the global effort to combat climate change.
Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Transient Climate Response Using Observational Data
The transient climate response (TCR) is the change in global mean temperature at the time of an exogenous doubling in atmospheric CO2 concentration increasing at a rate of 1% per year.
The Debt Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly lengthened the list of developing and emerging market economies in debt distress. For some, a crisis is imminent.
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