Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Author "Nemet, Gregory F."
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Cost Containment for Climate Policy Requires Linked Technology Policies
Nemet, Gregory F. (2008)Safety valves, discretionary advisory boards, and other cost containment mechanisms enhance the political feasibility of stringent climate policy by limiting firms’ and households’ exposures to higher than anticipated ... -
Demand Subsidies Versus R&D: Comparing the Uncertain Impacts of Policy on a Pre-Commercial Low-Carbon Energy Technology
Nemet, Gregory F.; Baker, Erin (2008)To compare the effects of publicly sponsored research and development and subsidies for demand, the authors combine a bottom-up manufacturing cost model with information gathered from experts. They apply their model to ... -
Interpreting Interim Deviations from Cost Projections for Publicly Supported Energy Technologies
Nemet, Gregory F. (2008)Widespread public funding of nascent energy technologies, combined with recent increases in costs the most heavily supported, has introduced a policy dilemma: should policymakers sustain these programs in anticipation cost ... -
Local Air Quality and Climate Policy: Valuing Ancillary Benefits When the Debate is about Minimizing Costs
Meier, Paul; Holloway, Teresa; Nemet, Gregory F. (2009-11-24)While air quality co-benefits have been prominently portrayed as a hedge against uncertainty in climate policy, this assessment finds that full inclusion of co-benefits depends on?rather than substitutes for?better valuation ... -
Robust Incentives and the Design of a Climate Change Governance Regime
Nemet, Gregory F. (2010-02)A poorly coordinated international governance regime has the advantage of reducing the risk associated with a global policy failure. Beyond this case study, the importance of this positive effect depends on the probability ... -
Willingness to Pay for Climate Policy: A Review of Estimates
Johnson, Evan; Nemet, Gregory F. (2010-06)