Economics Seminar: Impacts of a Carbon Tax across US Household Income Groups

Thursday, September 20,  4:25 PM — 5:30 PM
Hubbard Hall, The Pickering Room [213]

The Economics Department Fall seminar series kicks off with Economist Marc Hafstead, Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF). Hafstead is a leading researcher on the evaluation of climate and energy policies and with a colleague at RFF he runs the Goulder-Hafstead Energy-Environment-Economy (E3) Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. This sophisticated multi-sector model of the United States has been used to model cap-and-trade programs, carbon taxes, clean energy standards, and gasoline taxes.

Dr. Hafstead comes to Bowdoin to give a paper titled “Impacts of a Carbon Tax across US Household Income Groups: What are the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Offs”.