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Williams, Roberton C. - 2016

This paper examines potential environmental tax policy reforms. It focuses primarily on a carbon tax, but also more briefly considers a range of other possible changes. These include revising or eliminating various energy and environmental tax credits and deductions (many of which might become...

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Empirical Estimates for Environmental Policy Making in a Second-Best Setting

West, Sarah E.; Williams, Roberton C. - 2004

This study estimates parameters necessary to calculate the optimal second-best gasoline tax, most notably the cross-price elasticity between gasoline and leisure. Prior work indicates that in a second-best setting with distortionary income taxes, both the cost of environmental regulation and the...

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Costs of Alternative Environmental Policy Instruments in the Presence of Industry Compensation Requirements

Bovenberg, A. Lans; Goulder, Lawrence H.; Jacobsen, Mark R. - 2008

This paper explores how the costs of meeting given aggregate targets for pollution emissions change with the imposition of the requirement that key pollution-related industries be compensated for potential losses of profit from the pollution regulation. Using analytically and numerically solved...

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Income inequality and willingness to pay for public environmental goods

Baumgärtner, Stefan; Drupp, Moritz A.; Meya, Jasper N.; … - 2016

We study how the distribution of income among members of society, and income inequality in particular, affects social … income, and decreases (increases) with income inequality if and only if environmental goods and manufactured goods are … income inequality. We derive adjustment factors for benefit transfer to control for differences in income distributions …

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Emission permits and public pollution abatement : can decentralized environmental policies be efficient?

Tsakiris, Nikos; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Michael, Michael S. - 2015

We build a two regions general equilibrium model with cross-border pollution and either international or only inter-regional capital mobility. To control pollution each region uses public pollution abatement and issues either intra-regionally or inter-regionally tradable emission permits. We...

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Environmental Dumping and International Unionized Oligopolies

Ma, Jie; Duan, Qi - 2014

This paper studies whether environmental dumping is a robust strategic environmental policy toward international unionized oligopolies. We introduce trade unions to Barrett (1994) model and show that: (i) When firms compete as Cournot competitors, governments engage in environmental dumping...

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Environmental Protection for Sale : Strategic Green Industrial Policy and Climate Finance

Fischer, Carolyn - 2016

Industrial policy has long been criticized as subject to protectionist interests; accordingly, subsidies to domestic producers face disciplines under World Trade Organization agreements, without exceptions for environmental purposes. Now green industrial policy is gaining popularity as...

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Environmental Protection for Sale : Strategic Green Industrial Policy and Climate Finance

Fischer, Carolyn - 2016

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Environmental protection for sale : strategic green industrial policy and climate finance

Fischer, Carolyn - 2016

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Economic Growth, International Competitiveness and Environmental Protection : R&D and Innovation Strategies with the Warm Model

Carraro, Carlo; Galeotti, Marzio - 2012

It is often argued that policies designed to protect the environment may harm economic growth. Moreover, if introduced unilaterally by a given country, they may reduce the competitiveness of domestic firms. These arguments are generally based on the assumption that environmental protection has...

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