This paper derives the incidence of a pollution tax in a stylized general equilibrium framework, building on previous … counterintuitive possibility that an increase in the tax could increase the pollution level vanishes. The choice of the CPI as …

modelling of pollution and pollution abatement. We derive two key insights. First, if the national government implements a … permit system (equivalently, pollution taxes) that allow for emissions as in the first-best, cities chosen by local …-best emission policy and extensions to city asymmetries, a fiscal externality, local pollution, generalized commuting costs and …

either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public … ordinary citizens. The recognition that the health consequences of pollution can be dealt with privately at a cost adds an … private mitigation is feasible, inequality of incomes leads to an unequal distribution of the health burden of pollution (in …

instruments: pollution taxes, pollution permits and Kyoto-like numerical rules for emissions. The setup is the basic stochastic … neoclassical growth model augmented with the assumptions that pollution occurs as a by-product of output produced and environmental …-best policy instruments. We find that, in all cases studied, pollution permits are the worst policy choice, even when their …

. We calibrate such a model to China's trade with the rest of the world and explore two country tariff games using 2005 …