Research corner: Impact of politics

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Date

Oct. 19, 2018

News Type

Media Highlight

Source

Axios Generate

"President Trump's surprising election in 2016 had a rather modest effect on how the market valued publicly traded fossil fuel companies in the short-term aftermath, according to a new paper from researchers affiliated with the nonpartisan Resources For the Future."

Topics

Policy Design and Evaluation

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Thomas Sterner

University Fellow

Thomas Sterner is a university fellow at RFF. His work is focused on the design of policy instruments to deal with resource and environmental problems.

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