November 15, 2022

Carbon Abatement Costs for Hydrogen Fuels in Hard-to-Abate Transport Sectors and Potential Climate Policy Mixes

Additional climate policy efforts are needed for “hard-to-abate” sectors such as heavy-duty trucking, shipping, and aviation, in order for governments […]

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November 9, 2022

Gilbert E. Metcalf Joins
MIT CEEPR as a Visiting Professor

CEEPR is delighted to welcome Gilbert E. Metcalf as a Visiting Professor. Professor Metcalf is an economist who has made […]

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November 2, 2022

Five Myths About
Carbon Pricing

Among economists, there is near unanimous consensus that a necessary component of any portfolio of policies to address climate change […]

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October 17, 2022

Electricity Retail Rate Design in a Decarbonizing Economy: An Analysis of Time-of-Use and Critical Peak Pricing

Currently, U.S. residential and small commercial electricity consumers are typically billed based on nearly flat rates, i.e., a constant price […]

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October 7, 2022

Rational Rationing: A Price-Control Mechanism for a Persistent Supply Shock

The 2021 Texas power crisis, caused by a series of winter storms, led to prices that were 100 times higher […]

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October 7, 2022

The Macroeconomic Effects of a Carbon Tax to Meet the U.S. Paris Agreement Target

We explore the quantitative impact of a carbon tax that reduces emissions by 35 percent—a target consistent with the Biden […]

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