Papers by Stoft and Cramton
11-01 Global Climate Games: Pricing & Green-Fund Cooperation
10-08 Kyoto’s Climate Game and How to Fix It
10-07 International Climate Games: From Caps to Cooperation
10-06 Renewable Fuel and the Global Rebound Effect
10-05 World Bank: Global Carbon Pricing with Game Theory
10-04 Game Theory for Global Climate Policy
10-03 Carbon Price: A Better Climate Commitment
10-02 World Bank: Global Carbon Pricing
10-01 Cap versus Tax after Copenhagen
09-08 China and India’s Carbon Intensity Commitments
09-07 Pricing Is a Better Climate Commitment
09-06 Global Carbon Pricing
09-05 Beyond Kyoto
09-04 Global Rebound vs. California’s Low-Carbon Fuel Standard
09-03 CDM and Sectoral Crediting
09-02 War over Caps
09-01 A Tax Swap Is like Adding a Carbon Capitation Tax
08-01 Carbonomics: How to Fix the Climate and Charge it to OPEC
Carbonomics: How to Fix the Climate and Charge It to OPEC
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- Explained, a year ahead, why Copenhagen would fail.
“Developing countries will not accept internationally set caps. … a global carbon price can provide a fair and effective standard, and it is the best hope for international cooperation.” —Carbonomics, 2008
- Presents the Kyoto alternative explained on this website
- Shows how to use oil security to bring China on board with climate
Explains:
- The carbon “untax” advocated by James Hansen
- “Cap and dividend” (as in the Cantwell-Collins bill)
- Why cap and trade ran into trouble in the US
Solid economics presented for a general audience.
- Global Carbon Pricing
- Ley, Eduardo (2010) “Global Carbon Pricing,” (4MB slides) World Bank, Austria, May 12.
- Stiglitz, Joseph (2010) “Overcoming the Copenhagen Failure,” Project Syndicate
- Cramton & Stoft (2009) “Price Is a Better Climate Commitment,” The Economists’ Voice.
- McKibben, Morris, Wilcoxen (2009) “Achieving Comparable Effort through Carbon Price Agreements,” Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard.
- Stoft (2008/12) Carbonomics, Diamond Press, 250 pp. (for a general audience).
- Cooper, Richard (2008/10), “The Case for Charges on Greenhouse Gases,”
- Copenhagen
- Mark Lynas (2009) “How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.”>
- John Lee (2009) “China fears climate change openness” (China’s motivations)
- Politico (2010) “Pres. Obama’s dramatic climate meet.”
- Guardian (2009) “Last-ditch drama that saved Copenhagen from collapse.“
- Game Theory & Climate Policy
- Godal & Holtsmark (2010) “[Carbon] Trading with Endogenous Taxes,” a critique of Carbone et al.
- Carbone et al. (2009) “The Case for International Emissions Trade,” Cap-Trade game in a global economic model. Europe buy permits from China, and others do nothing.
- Dixit and Nalebluff (2009) The Art of Strategy. (good chapter on prisoner’s dilemma & cooperation)
- The best news article on Copenhagen and game theory
- Holtsmark & Sommerville (2008) “[Carbon] Trading in a Non-Cooperative Equilibrium.”
- Helm (2003) “International Emission Trading with Endogenous Allowance Choices.”
- China: Climate and Oil
- Lee, Henry & David Shalmon (2007) “Searching for Oil: China’s Oil Initiatives in the Middle East.”
- Global Policy Considerations
- Carbon Content of Imports and Exports, Financial Times, 2010/03/09
- US Climate/Energy Policy
- NY Times w/ Fred Krupp (2010/03) “Cap and Trade Loses Standing as Policy of Choice”