October 22, 2015

Evaluating Regulation Outcomes

On October 21, Richard Schmalensee, Professor and Dean Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management and former CEEPR Director, spoke at a seminar hosted by Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C.

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October 21, 2015

Ten years of the Renewable Fuel Standard

In October, a group of experts gathered at the Brookings Institute to discuss the Renewable Fuel Standard, a policy to promote biofuels that was enacted ten years ago. Participants in the event assessed the success of the legislation and evaluated its effects on greenhouse gas emissions, food prices, and fuel prices.

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October 15, 2015

Natural Gas Prices and Coal Displacement: Evidence from Electricity Markets

A recent CEEPR working paper uses data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Energy Information Administration (EIA) along with market models to provide an in depth look at the environmental and operational effects of fuel price changes on electricity generators.

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September 11, 2015

New Study Shedding Light on the Political Economy of Renewable Energy Promotion Policies

A newly published study co-authored by Christopher R. Knittel shows how the asymmetric distribution of costs and benefits of the 2005 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has implications for voting behavior and climate policy choices.

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September 10, 2015

Tom Sudmann Therkildsen

With great sadness, MIT CEEPR faculty and staff learned of the passing of a long-time friend and supporter, Tom Therkildsen of Statoil ASA. “Tom was one of our most thoughtful and engaged
partners in the energy industry– he will be sorely missed”, said CEEPR Director Christopher Knittel.

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September 7, 2015

The Economics and Geopolitics of Natural Gas

On September 7, 2015, MIT CEEPR Senior Research Scientist Sergey Paltsev visited
Istanbul, Turkey, for an invited lecture on the economics and geopolitics of natural
gas at Sabanci University.

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