2009 AERE Workshop:

Energy and the Environment

June 18-20, 2009

Resources for the Future Conference Center

1400 16th Street NW

Washington, DC, USA

Papers presented at the 2009 AERE Workshop are available below. Also available is a *.zip file (31M) containing the extended, near-final workshop proceedings including papers, abstracts, keynote presentations, posters, and other workshop items. Click here to download the file. Once downloaded, unzip it to an empty directory on your hard drive (be sure to retain the subdirectories), and then point your favorite browser to the file named AERE2009.HTML to access the materials.

Papers Presented

Impacts of State-Level Limits on Greenhouse Gases per Mile In the Presence of National CAFE Standards
Mark R. Jacobsen, Lawrence Goulder and Arthur A. van Benthem

Using Loopholes to Reveal the Marginal Cost of Regulation: The Case of Fuel-Economy Standards
Soren T. Anderson and James M. Sallee

Modeling Alternative Policies for Forestry and Agricultural Bioenergy Production and GHG Mitigation
Robert Beach, Adam Daigneault, Bruce McCarl, and Steven Rose

Efficiency Effects of Increased U.S. Biofuels Mandate
Antonio M. Bento and Joel R. Landry

An Advanced Economic Model of Incentive-Based Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction Policies in the Power Sector
Daniel L. Shawhan, Douglas C. Mitarotonda and Ray D. Zimmerman

How Should Environmental Policy Respond to Business Cycles? Optimal Policy under Persistent Productivity Shocks
Garth Heutel

The Comprehensive Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy

Margaret Walls, Dallas Burtaw, and Richard Sweeney

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions from Wind Energy: Location, Location, Location
Meredith Fowlie and Duncan Callaway

Kyoto-Clean Development Mechanism: The Case of Low Carbon Electricity Generating Projects in China and India
Ian Partridge and Shama Gamkhar

Rents from Tagged Energy Technology Subsidies
Herman R.J. Vollebergh, Rob F. T. Aalbers, and Henri L.F. de Groot

Combining Taxes and Moral Suasion for Resolving the Energy-Climate Nexus: Experimental Evidence of a Conflict
Timo Goeschl and Grischa Perino