题目：Equity Effects in Energy Regulation
主讲人：Billy Pizer，教授，Duke University
时间：10月12日（星期三），10:00
地点：新主楼A1028
摘要：
Choices in energy regulation often involve options with divergent impacts on household energy prices. In particular, pollution taxes often raise prices more than other policies because they price inframarginal emissions. At the same time, household energy use varies widely, across income and demographics, as well as within any easily identifiable group. This suggests that these choices can have significant distributional effects to be weighed alongside efficiency concerns. In this paper, we characterize this tradeoff, alternative welfare perspectives for making policy choices, and the sufficient statistics that policymakers might need. This provides a guide for when equity effects could trump efficiency concerns.
报告人简介：
Billy Pizer joined the faculty of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University in the fall of 2011. He also was appointed a faculty fellow in the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, a nonpartisan institute at Duke that focuses on finding solutions to some of the nation's most pressing environmental challenges. His current research examines how public policies to promote clean energy can effectively leverage private sector investments, how environmental regulation and climate policy can affect production costs and competitiveness, and how the design of market-based environmental policies can address the needs of different stakeholders.
From 2008 to 2011, Pizer was deputy assistant secretary for environment and energy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he created and led a new office responsible for the department’s role in the domestic and international environment and energy agenda of the United States. Prior to that, Pizer was a researcher at Resources for the Future (RFF), a nonpartisan think tank, for more than a decade. He served as senior economist for the environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2002.
Pizer's academic experience includes visiting professorships at The Johns Hopkins University (1997-1999) and Stanford University (2000-2001). He has published more than thirty peer-reviewed articles and books and holds a PhD and MA in economics from Harvard University and BS in physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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2016-10-09
