Browsing by Author "Aldy, Joseph"
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Alternative Metrics for Comparing Domestic Climate Change Mitigation Efforts and the Emerging International Climate Policy Architecture
Aldy, Joseph Edgar; Pizer, William (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)The availability of practical mechanisms for comparing domestic efforts aimed at mitigating global climate change are important for the stability, equity, and efficiency of international climate agreements. We examine a ... -
Behavioral and Experimental Insights on Consumer Decisions and the Environment
Shrum, Trisha Renee (2016-05-19)In the following essays, I apply theoretical insights and experimental methods from behavioral science to address three questions at the intersection of environmental economics and consumer behavior. In Chapter 1, I use ... -
Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments
Houde, Sebastien; Aldy, Joseph Edgar (2014)The effectiveness of investment subsidies depends on the existing array of regulatory and information mandates, especially in the energy efficiency space. Some consumers respond to information disclosure by purchasing ... -
Comparing emission mitigation pledges: Metrics and institutions
Aldy, Joseph Edgar; Pizer, William A. (Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Developpement International. CEPR Press, 2015)A key element in the emerging international architecture will be practical mechanisms to compare domestic efforts to mitigate global climate change. How do countries decide whether and to what degree pledges by their peers ... -
Comparing Emissions Mitigation Efforts across Countries
Aldy, Joseph Edgar; Pizer, William A.; Akimoto, Keigo (2015)A natural outcome of the emerging pledge and review approach to international climate change policy is the interest in comparing mitigation efforts among countries. Domestic publics and stakeholders will have an interest ... -
The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
Aldy, Joseph Edgar; Pizer, William (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)The pollution haven hypothesis suggests that unilateral domestic emission mitigation policies could cause adverse “competitiveness” impacts on domestic manufacturers as they lose market share to foreign competitors and ... -
The Crucial Role of Policy Surveillance in International Climate Policy
Aldy, Joseph Edgar (Springer Verlag, 2014)An extensive literature shows that information-creating mechanisms enhance the transparency of and can support participation and compliance in international agreements. This paper draws from game theory, international ... -
Designing a Bretton Woods Institution to Address Climate Change
Aldy, Joseph Edgar (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)The information structure of the climate change policy collaboration problem necessitates the design of institutions to enhance public knowledge about nations’ commitments, policies, and outcomes. The international community ... -
Economic tools to promote transparency and comparability in the Paris Agreement
Aldy, Joseph Edgar; Pizer, William; Tavoni, Massimo; Reis, Lara; Akimoto, Keigo; Blanford, Geoffrey; Carraro, Carlo; Clarke, Leon; Edmonds, James; Iyer, Gokul; McJeon, Haewon; Richels, Richard; Rose, Steven; Sano, Fuminori (Springer Nature, 2016)The Paris Agreement culminates a six-year transition toward an international climate policy architecture based on parties submitting national pledges every five years. An important policy task will be to assess and compare ... -
The Environmental Justice Dimensions of Climate Change
Miranda, Marie Lynn; Hastings, Douglas Andrew; Aldy, Joseph Edgar; Schlesinger, William H. (Mary Ann Liebert, 2011)Nations around the world are considering strategies to mitigate the severe impacts of climate change predicted to occur in the twenty-first century. Many countries, however, lack the wealth, technology, and government ... -
Essays in Energy Economics and Entrepreneurial Finance
Howell, Sabrina T. (2015-05-11)When does government intervention successfully correct perceived market failures? What effects do such interventions have on firm decisions? These questions are especially vital to the energy sector, which features large ... -
Essays on Energy Technology Innovation Policy
Chan, Gabriel Angelo Sherak (2015-05-16)Motivated by global climate change, enhancing innovation systems for energy technologies is seen as one of the largest public policy challenges of the near future. The role of policy in enhancing energy innovation systems ... -
Evaluating Mitigation Effort: Tools and Institutions for Assessing Nationally Determined Contributions
Aldy, Joseph Edgar (Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School., 2015)The emerging pledge and review approach to international climate policy provides countries with substantial discretion in how they craft their intended emission mitigation contributions. The resulting heterogeneity in ... -
The Evolving Role of Greenhouse Gas Emission Offsets in Combating Climate Change
Aldy, Joseph; Halem, Zachery M. (Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-08)As governments, firms, and universities advance ambitious greenhouse gas emission goals, the demand for emission offsets – projects that reduce or remove emissions relative to a counterfactual scenario – will increase. ... -
Heterogeneity in the Value of Life
Aldy, Joseph Edgar; Smyth, Seamus J (2014)We develop a numerical life-cycle model - with choice over consumption and leisure, stochastic mortality and labor income processes, and calibrated to U.S. data - to characterize willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk ... -
How Is the US Pricing Carbon? How Could We Price Carbon?
Aldy, Joseph; Burtraw, Dallas; Fischer, Carolyn; Fowlie, Meredith; Williams, Roberton C. III; Cropper, Maureen L. (Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-10)Economists have for decades recommended that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases be taxed—or otherwise priced—to provide incentives for their reduction. The United States does not have a federal carbon tax; however, ... -
The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium.
Aldy, Joseph Edgar (2014)In 2010, the Gulf Coast experienced the largest oil spill, the greatest mobilization of spill response resources, and the first Gulf-wide deepwater drilling moratorium in U.S. history. Taking advantage of the unexpected ... -
Learning from Experience: An Assessment of the Retrospective Reviews of Agency Rules and the Evidence for Improving the Design and Implementation of Regulatory Policy
Aldy, Joseph Edgar (Administrative Conference of the United States, 2014) -
Learning How to Build Back Better through Clean Energy Policy Evaluation
Aldy, Joseph (Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-08)The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act authorized and appropriated unprecedented spending and tax expenditures to decarbonize the American economy. In the ... -
Oil and Water: Essays on the Economics of Natural Resource Usage
Stolper, Samuel (2016-05-24)As the developing world continues its pace of rapid growth and the threat of climate change intensifies, the economics of natural resource usage become increasingly important. From the perspective of both economic efficiency ...