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Waiting for Clarity: How a Price on Carbon Can Inspire InvestmentAWaiting for Clarity: How a Price on Carbon Can Inspire InvestmentBrian Prest, Dallas Burtraw, and Karen PalmerReport 21-08 April 2021Resources for the FutureiAbout the Authors Brian Prest is an economist and Fellow at Resources for the Future specializing in climate change, oil and gas, and energy economics. Prest uses economic theory and econometric models to improve energy and environmental policies by assessing their impacts on markets and pollution outcomes. His recent work includes economic modeling of federal oil and gas leasing policies, including implementing carbon pricing into federal oil and gas royalties.Dallas Burtraw is a Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future. Burtraw has worked to promote efficient control of air pollution and written extensively on electricity industry regulation and environmental outcomes. Burtraw’s current research includes analysis of the distributional and regional consequences of climate policy, the evolution of electricity markets including renewable integration, and the interaction of climate policy with electricity markets. Karen Palmer is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Future of Power Initiative at Resources for the Future. Palmer has been a researcher at Resources for the Future for over 25 years. Dr. Palmer specializes in the economics of environmental regulation and public utility regulation, particularly on issues at the intersection of climate policy and the electricity sector. Her work seeks to improve the design of incentive-based environmental and technology regulations that influence the electric utility sector and to help inform the ongoing transition of the electricity sector.AcknowledgmentsThis research was supported by the Environmental Defense Fund and RFF's Research and Policy Engagement Program. We appreciate helpful comments from Carrie Jenks, Pam Kiely, and Amlan Saha.Waiting for Clarity: How a Price on Carbon Can Inspire InvestmentiiAbout RFFResources for the Future (RFF) is an independent, nonprofit research institution in Washington, DC. Its mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement. RFF is committed to being the most widely trusted source of research insights and policy solutions leading to a healthy environment and a thriving economy. The views expressed here are those of the individual authors and may differ from those of other RFF experts, its officers, or its directors.Sharing Our WorkOur work is available for sharing and adaptation under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. You can copy and redistribute our material in any medium or format; you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made, and you may not apply additional restrictions. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that su