Toward a just energy transition: A distributional analysis of low-carbon policies in the USA
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Carbon pricing; Distributional impacts; Microsimulation; Computable general equilibrium;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
- D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
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