时间：11月12日，星期二， 15:30—16:30

地点：明德主楼729会议室

演讲人：Madhu Khanna, Professor

题目：Alternative Transportation Fuel Standards: Welfare Effects and Climate Benefits　

报告摘要：This paper develops an integrated model of the fuel and agricultural sectors to analyze the welfare and greenhouse gas emission (GHG) effects of the existing Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and a carbon price policy. The conceptual framework shows that these three policies differ in the incentives they create for the consumption and mix of different types of biofuels and in their effects on food and fuel prices and GHG emissions. We also apply a simulation model to analyze the welfare and GHG effects of these three policies which are normalized to achieve the same level of US GHG emissions. By promoting greater production of food-crop based biofuels, the RFS is found to lead to a larger reduction in fossil fuel use but also a larger increase in food prices and a smaller reduction in global GHG emissions compared to the LCFS and the carbon tax. All three policies increase US social welfare compared to a no-biofuel baseline scenario due to improved terms-of-trade, even when environmental benefits are excluded; global social welfare increases with a carbon tax but decreases with the RFS and LCFS due to the efficiency costs imposed by these policies, even after including the benefits of mitigating GHG emissions.

作者简介：

Dr. Khanna is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research specialties include technology adoption and voluntary approaches to pollution control; welfare analysis of alternative policy instruments for environmental protection; economic, land use and environmental implications of biofuels; and policies for carbon sequestration. Currently Dr. Khanna serves as the editor of American Journal of Agricultural Economics and is also a member of the Science Advisory Board Environmental Economics Committee for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Her research interests focus on diverse topics in the field of environment and energy economics. She has published many papers in first-class journals so far, including Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Energy Economics, Annual Review of Resource Economics, etc.

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