When Financial Trading Only Makes Things Worse
Working with four colleagues in DAS, Dr. John E. Parsons completed a study of a unique type of financial trading known as Virtual Bidding. The research helps understand certain situations in which virtual bidding not only fails to improve system performance, but also adds to system costs.
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Soft Cooperation in the Shadow of Distributional Conflict? Insights from the Climate Regime
In climate diplomacy, negotiators frequently reject “technical†initiatives that only require simple coordination, despite the affordable reputational gains they may gain from cooperation. Motivated by this puzzle, Dr. Antto Vihma and Dr. Johannes Urpelainen developed a formal model to analyze negotiation dynamics.
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2014 Fall Research Workshop
A balanced mix of current themes in the energy and environmental policy debate
featured at CEEPR’s 2014 Fall Research Workshop, held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 20 and 21, 2014.
WGBH: CEEPR’s Knittel Explains Energy Price Fluctuations
CEEPR Director Christopher Knittel gives an interview on WGBH radio on energy prices…
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EPA Clean Power Plan: Cross-state Coordination Key to Cost-effective Mitigation
Last June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing U.S. power plants. A new article published in Science magazine on 14 November 2014 and co-authored by CEEPR Director Christopher R. Knittel examines how key design features of the proposed rule might affect its environmental effectiveness, and offers recommendations to help minimize the economic costs of compliance.
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CEEPR Experts Weigh In on Proposed EPA Carbon Regulation
National media outlets turned to CEEPR experts for early reactions on the EPA’s proposed rulemaking on carbon emissions from existing power plants, issued in early June.
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