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Tax Distortions and Global Climate Policy

Babiker, Mustafa H. - 2002

We consider the efficiency implications of policies to reduce global carbon emissions in a world with pre-existing tax … environmental taxes are returned in a lump sum fashion, need not hold in a world with multiple distortions. We then present a large …-scale computable general equilibrium model of the world economy with distortionary taxation. We use this model to evaluate a number of …

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Linking heterogeneous climate policies (consistent with the Paris Agreement)

Mehling, Michael A.; Metcalf, Gilbert E.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2017

participation among the countries of the world. But another key necessary condition has yet to be achieved - adequate collective …

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Facilitating linkage of heterogeneous regional, national, and sub-national climate policies through a future international agreement

Bodansky, Daniel; Hoedl, Seth; Metcalf, Gilbert E.; … - 2015

Negotiations pursuant to the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action appear likely to lead to a 2015 Paris agreement that embodies a hybrid climate policy architecture, combining top-down elements, such as for monitoring, reporting, and verification, with bottom-up elements, including "nationally...

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Behavioral and Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy Introduction

Carraro, Carlo - 2000

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A Tax on Output of the Polluting Industry is Not a Tax on Pollution : The Importance of Hitting the Target

Fullerton, Don - 1999

We explore the effects of environmental taxes that imprecisely target pollution. A review of actual policies indicates few (if any) examples of a true tax on pollution. More typically, environmental taxes target an input or output that is correlated with pollution. We construct a simple...

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Cursed Resources? Political Conditions and Oil Market Outcomes

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2010

understanding world oil markets …

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Cost Containment in Climate Change Policy : Alternative Approaches to Mitigating Price Volatility

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2009

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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