The study concerns the variation of global and unilateral carbon price recommendations and their determinants. To this end, the authors provide survey evidence on carbon pricing from more than 400 experts across almost 40 countries. They quantify the extent of (dis-)agreement and reveal that a majority of experts can agree on some short- and medium-term global carbon price levels, and on unilateral carbon price levels in most countries. They find little evidence for free-riding.

We are pleased to share that RFF Fellow Marc Hafstead, University Fellow Lawrence H. Goulder, and two co-authors from California universities have received the 2021 Atkinson Award for best paper published in the Journal of Public Economics between 2018 and 2020. 

While ex-ante evaluations of climate mitigation policies predict that co-benefits of improved air quality will enable the aggregate benefits of climate mitigation policies to outweigh their costs, there is little empirical evidence to support this assertion. In this study, we use data on weekly smokestack emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) from firms participating in Shanghai’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions