Series: NBER-Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy

Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy presents six new papers on environmental and energy economics and policy in the United States. Rebecca Davis, J. Scott Holladay, and Charles Sims analyse recent trends in and forecasts of coal-fired power plant retirements, both with and without new climate policy. Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell examine the efficiency of pricing for electricity,...

Rigorous, careful, and nonpartisan research with a high policy impact on environmental and energy economics. Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy focuses on the effective and efficient management of environmental and energy challenges. Research papers offer new evidence on the intended and unintended consequences, the market and nonmarket effects, and the incentive and distributional impacts of policy initiatives and...