Cap-and-Trade Game: An Online Computer Game for Experiential Learning About Pollution Pricing

Many environmental policy problems require an understanding of complex processes that are difficult to understand in the abstract. The objective of this short research article is to describe the Cap-and-Trade Game, a multiplayer, asynchronous, online computer game that gives students an experiential learning opportunity to explore the operation of a cap-and-trade system. Players take the role of firms and choose production levels, invest in …