• DOI:10.1086/317681
Corpus ID: 3037737

Sulfur Dioxide Control by Electric Utilities: What Are the Gains from Trade?

@article{Carlson2000SulfurDC,
  title={Sulfur Dioxide Control by Electric Utilities: What Are the Gains from Trade?},
  author={C. Carlson and D. Burtraw and M. Cropper and K. Palmer},
  journal={Journal of Political Economy},
  year={2000},
  volume={108},
  pages={1292 - 1326}
}

C. Carlson, D. Burtraw, +1 author K. Palmer

Published 2000

Economics

Journal of Political Economy

Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) established a market for transferable sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission allowances among electric utilities. This market offers firms facing high marginal abatement costs the opportunity to purchase the right to emit SO2 from firms with lower costs, and this is expected to yield cost savings compared to a command‐and‐control approach to environmental regulation. This paper uses econometrically estimated marginal abatement cost functions for power… CONTINUE READING

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