Collaborative Research: Market Based Emissions Policies

合作研究：基于市场的排放政策

• 批准号: 1658888
• 负责人: Shuang Zhang
• 金额: $ 20.96万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-04-01 至 2021-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1658888&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Market; Based; Emissions

AbstractThis project funds research that will evaluate how firms and consumers respond to market-based policies that are supposed to improve air quality and address environmental issues. The focus here is on testing hypotheses drawn from economic theory about how new environmental policies affect business and public health in the rapidly growing Chinese economy. China is about to adopt a new national program of cap-and-trade emissions policies. The research team will collect innovative measures of pollution, firm outcomes, and individual health. They will analyze these data to test the team's hypotheses about whether or not these policies will achieve the stated goals. Predicting and understanding the effects of these policies is important for many scientific reasons. What is more, the policies could potentially result in Chinese manufacturers facing much higher costs of environmental compliance, which would have important implications for worldwide trade and the comparative advantage of manufacturers in countries such as the United States that already have strong environmental controls. This project therefore will provide valuable new evidence to researchers around the world and policymakers in the United States who are charged with promoting US economic competitiveness.The lack of reliable data are primary obstacles to understanding the world?s most ambitious market-based environmental policy using data from a recently implemented comprehensive cap and trade program. The project will evaluate how emissions, firm outcomes, and individual health respond to this signature environmental policy. First the team will conduct a conventional program evaluation of the country's seven carbon trading pilot programs that were launched in late 2013. This is analysis is already feasible using conventional empirical approaches, such as difference-in-differences analysis. Second, they will extensive baseline measures for the 2017- launch of the national program as it comes online. Third, they will collect and assess innovative pollution and health measures and evaluate the nation?s early experience with its incipient national program. The project emphasizes analysis of independent and objective metrics rather than official government measures. Heterogeneity in the program features by regional market furnishes a laboratory for identifying successful and unsuccessful program features. Rules governing the national program are currently being finalized and will be evaluated for the identification strategies they furnish.

Abstract This This Project基金研究将评估公司和消费者如何应对应该改善空气质量并解决环境问题的基于市场的政策。这里的重点是测试经济理论提出的假设，即新的环境政策如何影响迅速增长的中国经济的商业和公共卫生。中国即将通过一项新的国民贸易排放政策计划。研究小组将收集创新的污染，企业成果和个人健康的衡量标准。他们将分析这些数据，以测试团队关于这些政策是否实现既定目标的假设。出于许多科学原因，预测和理解这些政策的影响很重要。此外，政策可能会导致中国制造商面临更高的环境合规成本，这将对全球贸易具有重要意义，以及在美国已经具有强大环境控制的国家中制造商的比较优势。因此，该项目将为全世界的研究人员和美国的决策者提供有价值的新证据来自最近实施的综合上限和贸易计划的数据。 该项目将评估排放，公司成果和个人健康对这一签名环境政策的反应。首先，该团队将对2013年底启动的七个碳交易试点计划进行常规计划评估。使用常规的经验方法，例如差异差异分析，这是可行的。 其次，他们将在2017年在线计划进行广泛的基线措施。第三，他们将收集和评估创新的污染和健康措施，并通过其初期的国家计划评估国家的早期经验。该项目强调对独立和客观指标而不是官方政府措施的分析。 该计划功能的异质性由区域市场提供了一个实验室，以确定成功且失败的计划功能。管理国家计划的规则目前正在完成，并将评估他们提供的识别策略。