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productive use, the economy wide marginal product of emissions falls with an increase in any subsidy, tending to decrease …
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Instead of efficiently pricing greenhouse gases, policy makers have favored measures that implicitly or explicitly subsidize low carbon fuels. We simulate a transportation-sector cap & trade program (CAT) and three policies currently in use: ethanol subsidies, a renewable fuel standard (RFS),...
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This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and reducing payoffs to bondholders in the event of default....
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Major carbon-pricing systems in Europe and North America involve multiple jurisdictions (countries or states). Individual jurisdictions often pursue additional initiatives—such as unilateral carbon price floors, legislation to phase out coal, aviation taxes or support programs for renewable...
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The standard theory that the first-best tax on pollution is equal to marginal environmental damages has been extended … 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 …
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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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considerations regarding its actual use throughout the world. While the tax-subsidy combination is increasingly being used, in the … 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 …
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central case analysis, revenues from globally internalizing carbon pricing rise to 7% and then fall to 5% of gross world …
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Cap and trade systems are emerging as the front-running policy choice to address climate change concerns in many countries. One of the apparent attractions of this approach is the ability to achieve hard limits on emissions over a control period. The cost of achieving this certainty on emission...
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