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Gathering Support for Green Tax Reform: Evidence from German Household Surveys

van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021

Green tax reform is unpopular because, typically, the poor are hurt most by the higher prices of carbon-intensive commodities. If revenues from a carbon tax are recycled, it may be feasible to gain popular support for green tax reform. To investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from...

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Gathering Support for Green Tax Reform : Evidence from German Household Surveys

van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021

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Reversible Environmental Catastrophes with Disconnected Generations

Heijdra, Ben J. - 2019

We study environmental policy in an economy-ecology model featuring multiple deterministic stable steady-state ecological equilibria. The economy-ecology does not settle in either of the deterministic steady states as the environmental system is hit by random shocks. Individual live for two...

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City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2020

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 …

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Green havens and pollution havens

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Rick - 2012

We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a … country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also … enforcement of environmental policy. In contrast to earlier results, it is not only footloose industries that display pollution …

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On the Effects of Linking Voluntary Cap-and-Trade Systems for CO2 Emissions

Weitzman, Martin L.; Holtsmark, Bjart J. - 2018

Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...

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Prices versus Quantities Reassessed

Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian P. - 2018

“Prices versus quantities” (Weitzman 1974), a hugely influential paper, is widely cited (and taught) in current debates about the best policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The paper’s criterion for ranking policies suggests that technological uncertainty favors taxes over cap and...

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Smart Cap

Karp, Larry S.; Träger, Christian - 2021

We introduce a “smart” cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap responds endogenously to technology or macroeconomic shocks, relying on the market price of certificates to aggregate information. It allows policy makers to...

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Nonlinear production, abatement, pollution and materials balance reconsidered

Pethig, Rüdiger - 2005

pollution. …

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Covid-19 Mortality and Contemporaneous Air Pollution

Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Mahecha, John Gomez; … - 2020

robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …

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