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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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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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understanding world oil markets …
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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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