Six Principles for Public Energy Innovation Programs
Last month, the European Union marked the tenth year of its Strategic Energy Technology Plan.
Research
The Efficiency Consequences of Heterogeneous Behavioral Responses to Energy Fiscal Policies
The behavioral responses to taxes and subsidies are often subject to various behavioral biases and transaction costs—what we define as “microfrictions.” We develop a theoretical framework to show how
The Design of Environmental Markets: What Have We Learned from Experience with Cap and Trade?
This article reviews the design of environmental markets for pollution control over the past 30 years, and identifies key market-design lessons for future applications.
Consumers’ Response to State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Programs
Through an evaluation of the 2009 Recovery Act's State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program, this paper examines consumers' response to energy efficiency rebates.
US Energy Diplomacy in an Age of Energy Abundance
For decades, fears of energy scarcity drove American energy diplomacy.
Real World Headwinds for Trump Climate Change Policy
It has now been 12 months since Donald J.
Market Mechanisms and the Paris Agreement
The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements has released a volume of seventeen briefs summarizing research on options for elaborating the Paris Agreement's Article 6, the evolution of market-based syste
The Political Economy of Carbon Pricing Policy Design
This paper examines the choice between—and design of—CO2 cap-and-trade and tax policies through a political-economy lens.
The Right Way to Do Regime Change in Venezuela
Unsurprisingly, President Donald Trump hasn’t held back when speaking about the political crisis in Venezuela.
Where Big Oil Meets Big Green
At the turn of the century, environmentalists and “Big Oil” appeared to be moving toward one another.
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