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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 offset...
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polices to manage quantities under a pollution tax. Importantly, it can be difficult to know how to evaluate these policies …
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This article describes a revenue and distributionally neutral approach to reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that uses a carbon tax. The revenue from the carbon tax is used to finance an environmental earned income tax credit designed to be distributionally neutral. The credit is linked to...
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We use field-level cost estimates of all oil and natural gas fields to highlight dynamic aspects of a global carbon tax. Some of the initial reduction in consumption will be offset through higher consumption later on. Only high-cost reserves will be priced out of the market, e.g., at 200 dollars...
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vision to phase out conventional vehicles entirely. In a world with only electric vehicles (EVs), transportation pollution …. The actual incremental pollution abatement arising from EVs today is thus substantially smaller than one would predict …
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Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent despite a substantial … suggest that the implicit pollution tax that manufacturers face doubled between 1990 and 2008. These changes in environmental …
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When government needs more revenue than is available from a pollution tax rate equal to marginal environmental damage … first-best Pigouvian rate. Yet new results suggest that the second-best pollution tax is below the Pigouvian rate. This note …
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theoretical and empirical research to evaluate the effects of such reforms on tax revenue, pollution emissions, economic …
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Bovenberg and de Mooij (1994) showed that, in the presence of preexisting distorting taxes, the optimal pollution tax … hypothesis,' which suggests that a tax on pollution can both improve the environment and reduce distortions in the tax system …
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.S. energy use and pollution emissions. On traditional efficiency grounds, each of the energy taxes emerges as more costly to the …
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