Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling has provided a number of important insights about the interplay between environmental tax policy and the pre-existing tax system. In this paper, we emphasize that a labor market policy of recycling tax revenues from an environmental tax to lower...

Economics is the study of choices, and how they are made compatible. The issue of global warming can be viewed in the context of a set of choices that lead to climate change. In a free society choices are made compatible via the price system. If prices do not reflect the true cost of carbon,...

La prominencia de las políticas de mitigación de emisiones exige una comprensión de su impacto distributivo potencial. Para evaluar la heterogeneidad distributiva, cuantificamos y analizamos la intensidad de emisión del consumo, definida como las emisiones de carbono por unidad de consumo,...