The Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy: Alternative Uses of Revenues from a Cap-and-Trade Auction

By D. Burtraw, R. Sweeney, Margaret Walls. National tax journal, 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Who bears the brunt? Distributional effects of climate change mitigation policies (2011, methodology): “…of annual disposable income tend to show greater regressive effects than studies that report shares of current expenditure, which is often used as a proxy for lifetime income (e.g. Burtraw et al., 2009; Johnstone and Serret, 2006; Klinge Jacobsen et al., 2003; Metcalf, 1999; Wier et al., 2005).”
Tracking global carbon revenues: A survey of carbon taxes versus cap-and-trade in the real world (2016, background): “Considering both geographic and income distributional impacts, Burtraw et al. (2009) observe that carbon footprint variables differ across areas, especially among lower-income households, but that summed tax impacts varied less for upper-income households.”
Credible commitment in carbon policy (2012, background): “By mitigating (for the poorest households potentially reversing) its regressive distributional impact (Burtraw et al., 2009), a ‘climate dividend’ could create long-term political support for carbon pricing.”
Renewable Energy Subsidies: Second-Best Policy or Fatal Aberration for Mitigation? (2011, unknown): “…pricing may constitute political constraints which prevent the implementation of the first-best policy: High carbon prices reduce profits and income primarily in the fossil energy industry and lower-income households (Burtraw et al. 2009; Metcalf 2008; Parry 2004; Parry and Williams III 2010).”
Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A General Equilibrium Approach with Micro-Data for Households (2011, unknown): “Finally Burtraw et al. (2009a) consider the distributional impacts in an expenditure side analysis where they focus on the allocation of permits to local distribution companies (LDCs).”
Funding Renewable Energy: An Analysis of Renewable Portfolio Standards (2017, result): “Similar to carbon tax policies that have been shown to be regressive (Hassett et al., 2009; Burtraw et al., 2009; Dinan and Rogers, 2002; Metcalf, 1999), these results provide suggestive evidence that RPSs may also be regressive in nature.”