Heterogeneous Harm vs. Spatial Spillovers: Environmental Federalism and US Air Pollution

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for comments, as well as seminar and conference participants at Camp Resources, the CU Workshop on Environmental Economics, Illinois State University, and Resources for the Future. We thank Dallas Burtraw and Meghan McGuinness for data and for help with the RFF electricity model. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

Environmental Constituent Interest, Green Electricity Policies, and Legislative Voting

“…I use the data derived in Banzhaf and Chupp [26] for the policies most efficient at the state level as my first measure of constituent interest. 1 Since the within-state marginal benefit measure represents the interest of each state in determining the efficient level of sulfur dioxide pollution from its own electricity plants, it is an attractive measure to use in explaining adoption of state level green electricity policies.…”

“…(Results are also available from Haiku and TAF for NO x , as indicated in Banzhaf and Chupp[26]. I have chosen to focus on SO 2 , as the NO x results are strikingly similar in all the cases.)…”

Designing Economic Instruments for the Environment in a Decentralized Fiscal System

“…Garcia-Valiñas (2007) shows the importance of these trade-offs for water quality in Spain. Banzhaf and Chupp (2010) consider them for the case of air quality in the USA. Banzhaf and Chupp (2010) also show that these trade-offs interact with the underlying production technologies in important ways.…”

“…Banzhaf and Chupp (2010) consider them for the case of air quality in the USA. Banzhaf and Chupp (2010) also show that these trade-offs interact with the underlying production technologies in important ways. In particular, they point out that local jurisdictions tend to make the mistake of under-pricing pollution, whereas the central government might at least be right 'on average'.…”

The regional economic effects of a reduction in carbon emissions and an evaluation of offsetting policies in China

“…In addition there are several studies which use large‐scale computable general equilibrium (CGE) models; for example, Adams (), Rausch et al. () and Banzhaf and Chupp (). These models all have structures which closely mimic the structure of the economy being analysed and are calibrated using data for those economies.…”