Distributional Impacts of a U.S. Greenhouse Gas Policy

to be written This paper was written for the American Tax Policy Institute Conference on Energy Taxation to be held in Washington, DC on Oct. 15 -16, 2009. * Department of Economics, Tufts University, National Bureau of Economic Research and MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. ** MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Corresponding Author: gilbert.metcalf@tufts.edu Distributional Impacts of a U.S. Greenhouse Gas Tax: A General Equilibrium Analysis

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