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international competition in the presence of divergent climate policy approaches may result in subsidy races, which come with their …
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transaction such as output or income and a subsidy to a different market transaction that is a clean alternative to pollution. It … each tax and subsidy in a general equilibrium model with other tax distortions, and we compare these to the rates in a … first-best model. The tax-subsidy combination is explained in terms of a tax effect, an environmental effect, and a revenue …
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Because of difficulties measuring pollution, many prior papers suggest a subsidy to some observable method of reducing … make an additional important point. In each case, we show that welfare under the suggested subsidy can be increased by the … addition of an output tax. While the suggested subsidy reduces damage per unit of output, it also decreases the firm's cost of …
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combination of a presumptive tax and an environmental subsidy. A presumptive tax is a tax that is imposed under the presumption … that all production uses a dirty technology or all consumption goods become waste. The environmental subsidy is then … usefulness of the tax-subsidy combination, we review conceptual considerations regarding its implementation and practical …
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The most cost-effective policies for achieving CO2 abatement (e.g., carbon taxes) fail to get off the ground politically because of unacceptable distributional consequences. This paper explores CO2 abatement policies designed to address distributional concerns. Using an intertemporal numerical...
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emissions. Given a modest decarbonization goal, a renewable subsidy performs better than a nuclear subsidy, but this ranking is …
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There is widespread agreement among economists - and a diverse set of other policy analysts - that at least in the long run, an economy-wide carbon pricing system will be an essential element of any national policy that can achieve meaningful reductions of CO2 emissions cost-effectively in the...
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A carbon tax has been widely discussed as a way of reducing fossil fuel use and mitigating climate change, generally in a static framework. Unlike standard goods that can be produced, oil is an exhaustible resource. Parts of its price reflects scarcity rents, i.e., the fact that there is limited...
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Output-based carbon regulations--such as fuel economy standards and the rate-based standards in the Clean Power Plan--create well-known incentives to inefficiently increase output. Similar distortions are created by attribute-based regulations. This paper demonstrates that, despite these...
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This paper assesses the impacts across US household income groups of carbon taxes of various designs. We consider both the source-side impacts (reflecting how policies affect nominal wage, capital, and transfer incomes) and the use-side impacts (reflecting how policies alter prices of goods and...
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