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| Joseph Aldy
April 22, 2021, Video: "On Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. E.T., Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, will hold the Subcommittee’s first hearing of the Congress on Earth Day entitled, “The Role of Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Preventing Action on the Climate Crisis.”"
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| Joseph Aldy
February 25, 2021, Video: "This webinar was given by Michael Livermore, Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. It was given on Thursday, February 25, 2021 as part of the Regulatory Policy Program's weekly seminar series."
| Joseph Aldy
February 18, 2021, Video: "In this presentation, Harvard Economist Joseph E. Aldy, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, draws from the theory and practice of carbon pricing and pollution markets more generally to explore the potential design of U.S. climate change policy. Aldy is Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a University Fellow at Resources for the Future, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National…
| Joseph Aldy
December 2020, Paper: " The United States and United Kingdom have longstanding traditions in use of environmental benefit-cost analysis (E-BCA). While there are similarities between how E-BCA is utilized, there are significant differences too, many of which mirror ongoing debates and recent developments in the literature on environmental and natural resource economics. We review the use of E-BCA in both countries across three themes: (a) the…
| Douglas Elmendorf | Joseph Aldy | Nicholas Burns | Jason Furman | Juliette Kayyem | Sandra Susan Smith
November 12, 2020, Video: "Harvard Kennedy School faculty discuss the challenges faced by the incoming U.S. presidential administration, and possible policy prescriptions for dealing with them." Watch Via HKS on Youtube
| Joseph Aldy
2020, Paper: "While national governments pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement, delivering on these aims will require significant changes in the activities of major sources of emissions such as companies. To drive such changes, companies will need to consider carbon emissions as a cost of production and many companies have begun doing so through internal carbon pricing. By employing data from the Carbon…
| Joseph Aldy
2020, Paper, "One hundred years ago, Professor Arthur C. Pigou published his key insight that taxing a negative technological externality would improve social welfare. This has motivated research and policy efforts in pricing pollution—directly through emissions taxes and implicitly through pollution markets such as cap-and-trade programs and tradable performance standards (Aldy et al. 2010). To combat climate change, national and subnational…
| Joseph Aldy
March - April 2020, Paper, "Markets Don't Deny the Existence or Risks of Global Climate Change - No Abstract Available."
| Joseph Aldy
January-February 2020, Paper, "Cap-and-trade and pollution taxes share an important characteristic: they each provide businesses the discretion to explore, identify, and exploit the lowest-cost ways of reducing pollution. In contrast to regulatory approaches that prescribe a specific technology or source-specific level of performance, these so-called market-based instruments provide the incentives to drive emission abatement where it is cheapest…
| Joseph Aldy
January 2020, Paper, "Since 1970, transportation, power generation, and manufacturing have dramatically transformed as air pollutant emissions have fallen significantly. To evaluate the causal impacts of the Clean Air Act on these changes, we synthesize and review retrospective analyses of air quality regulations. The geographic heterogeneity in regulatory stringency common to many regulations has important implications for emissions, public…