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Does S. Kuznets' belief question the environmental Kuznets curves?
Bousquet, Alain; Favard, Pascal - 2000
This paper examines the link between pollution and income. It shows how income inequality affects environmental … policies and therefore pollution. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that there is an inverted U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608669
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Inequality, environmental protection and growth
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, T. I. - 2000
work when they are young and own capital when they are old. Pollution externalities are present due to the use of a … polluting factor. The government uses the revenue from a capital-income tax and a pollution tax for a lump-sum transfer to the …-economic equilibrium, the lower the skill of the median individual is relative to the average, the smaller the pollution tax and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608600
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Environmental Policy and Capital Movements: The Role of Government Commitment
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I. - 2003
This paper explores the relationship between environmental protection and international capital movements, when tax policy is endogenous (through voting). A two-period general equilibrium model of a small open economy is specified to compare the effects of two different constitutions (commitment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325033
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Income inequality and the environmental Kuznets curve
Borghesi, Simone - 2000
This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608646
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Relief for the environment? The importance of an increasingly unimportant industrial sector
Gassebner, Martin; Gaston, Noel; Lamla, Michael - 2006
Deindustrialisation, stagnant real incomes of production workers and increasing inequality are latter-day features of many economies. It's common to assume that such developments pressure policy-makers to relax environmental standards. However, when heavily polluting industries become less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285959
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Pollution Abatement in the Netherlands: A Dynamic Applied General Equilibrium Assessment
Dellink, Rob; van Ierland, Ekko - 2004
to determine substitution possibilities between pollution and abatement and the characteristics of abatement goods. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324945
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A framework for environmental policy evaluation in the South African mining sector
Thiele, Rainer - 1998
This paper presents a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for the analysis of environmental policies towards mining activities, and shows for the case of South Africa how it can be implemented numerically. The CGE model belongs to the class of static, trade-focussed models along the lines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265364
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The Timing of National Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions in the Presence of Other Environmental Policies
Dellink, Rob B.; Hofkes, Marjan W. - 2006
This paper shows in an empirical context that substantial cost reductions can be achieved in the implementation of Dutch national climate policy by (i) targeting the policy at the stock of greenhouse gases, thus allowing polluters flexibility in their timing of emission reductions; and (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312375
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Economic Implications of Alternative Allocation Schemes for Emission Allowances: A Theoretical and Applied Analysis
Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - 2003
Political feasibility of emission trading systems may crucially depend on the free initial allocation of emission allowances to energy-intensive industries in order to ameliorate adverse production and employment effects. We investigate the potential trade-off between such compensation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297282
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Optimal taxation of externalities interacting through markets: A theoretical general equilibrium analysis
Ren, Xiaolin; Fullerton, Don; Braden, John B. - 2010
This study develops a theoretical general equilibrium model to examine optimal externality tax policy in the presence of externalities linked to one another through markets rather than technical production relationships. Analytical results reveal that the second-best externality tax rate may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274742