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Emissions Taxes and Abatement Regulation under Uncertainty
Christiansen, Vidar - 2013
We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of uncertainty about subsequent abatement cost, but can subsequently adjust output in the light of true marginal abatement cost. Where an emission tax is the only available instrument,...
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Can a Unilateral Carbon Tax Reduce Emissions Elsewhere?
Elliott, Joshua - 2013
One country that tries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may fear that other countries get a competitive advantage and increase emissions (“leakage”). Estimates from computable general equilibrium (CGE) models such as Elliott et al (2010a,b) indicate that 15% to 25% of abatement might be...
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Efficient CO2 Emissions Control with National Emissions Taxes and International Emissions Trading
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rudiger - 2021
cost effectiveness and banning overlapping taxes. Fiscal externalities are specified and the countries' welfare in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317104
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What is the Best Environmental Policy? Taxes, Permits and Rules under Economic and Environmental Uncertainty
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Economides, George; … - 2021
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 …
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Incentives for Environmental R&D
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2021
Since governments can influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods...
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Voluntary Emission Reductions, Social Rewards, and Environmental Policy
Rauscher, Michael - 2021
environmental regulation taking the shape of standards or taxes. Moreover, the paper shows that environmental externalities and … externalities related to social norms interact and that an optimal environmental policy should consider both types of externalities …
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Multiple Pollutants, Uncovered Sectors, and Suboptimal Environmental Policies
Fullerton, Don; Karney, Daniel H. - 2021
In our analytical general equilibrium model where two polluting inputs can be substitutes or complements in production, we study the effects of a tax on one pollutant in two cases: one where both pollutants face taxes and the second where the other pollutant is subject to a permit policy. In...
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Optimal Emission-Extraction Policy in a World of Scarcity and Irreversibility
Prieur, Fabien; Tidball, Mabel; Withagen, Cees - 2021
This paper extends the classical exhaustible-resource/stock-pollution model with the irreversibility of pollution decay …. Within this framework, we answer the question how the potential irreversibility of pollution affects the extraction path. We … example. To sum up, for any pollution level, we can identify a critical resource stock such that there exist multiple optima i …
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The Role of Fiscal Instruments in Environmental Policy
Kosonen, Katri - 2009
Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change problem. This paper takes a policy-making perspective and...
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Carbon Tariffs : An Analysis of the Trade, Welfare and Emission Effects
Larch, Mario - 2015
Carbon tariffs are one prominently discussed climate policy. The proponents stress the carbon tariffs' ability to restore competitiveness, avoid carbon leakage, and reduce world carbon emissions. We analyze the effects of carbon tariffs on trade, welfare, and carbon emissions in a structural...
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