Columbia | SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy

This paper, conducted in partnership with the Rhodium Group, seeks to answer key questions about the impacts of a carbon tax in the United States. First, how responsive are different sectors of the US economy to a carbon tax at different tax rates? Second, what changes in energy prices, production, and consumption occur under different tax rates? 

In partnership with Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, this report provides an up-to-date (inclusive of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017) analysis of the short-run and long-run macroeconomic effects and intergenerational and intragenerational distributional effects of a federal carbon tax in the U.S.

In partnership with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, this report estimates the effects of various potential carbon taxes on the tax burdens of US households across the income distribution.

In a new report, CGEP Scholars Jason Bordoff, Antoine Halff and Akos Losz examine the value of a U.S. reserve given the realities of the U.S. energy sector and those of the modern oil market.

Fellow Mike Fulwood examines what might be required to develop an Asian LNG trading hub, and considers what the alternatives are if an LNG trading hub cannot easily be achieved.

Jason Bordoff, Joshua Linn, and Akos Losz explore the impact of the EPA's decision to roll back US fuel economy standards. 

Senior Research Scholar Richard Nephew explores the process and impact of terminating economic santions, using Libya as a recent example. 

Tim Boersma, Senior Research Scholar at CGEP, and Corey Johnson, associate professor and department head of geography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, examine the history of U.S. energy diplomacy, how this foreign policy tool has been altered by the U.S. oil and gas boom, and its limitations. 

Fellow James Stock examines a package of legislative RFS reform proposals, outlining their interactions and collective economic consequences in order to better understand how the U.S. might update and improve the RFS.

In the first paper of the Carbon Tax Research Iniatitive series, Jason Bordoff and John Larsen outline important design considerations of a carbon tax in the United States.