The Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy: Alternative Uses of Revenues from a Cap-and-Trade Auction

by Dallas Burtraw, Richard Sweeney and Margaret A. Walls

- Federal policies intended to slow global warming would impose potentially significant costs on households, and the costs would vary depending on the policy approach used. This paper evaluates the effects of a carbon dioxide (CO2) cap-and-trade program on households in each of 11 regions of the country and sorted into annual income deciles.

Dallas Burtraw, Richard Sweeney, Margaret A. Walls (2009). "The Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy: Alternative Uses of Revenues from a Cap-and-Trade Auction." RFF Discussion Paper 09-17-REV, June 2009.