Stanford Energy Seminar: Hunt Allcott | Trade, Equity, and the Environment: The Economics of the Inflation Reduction Act Electric Vehicle Subsidies

Abstract: Professor Allcott will present the highlights from two papers studying the IRA EV tax credits using economic modeling and a remarkable array of vehicle market data.

Bio: Hunt Allcott is a Professor of Global Environmental Policy at Stanford University. He is the co-director of the Stanford Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis Center, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an affiliate of ideas42 and Poverty Action Lab, and a member of the board of editors of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. https://allcott.stanford.edu/

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