| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w13980 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 13980 |
| Analysis of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Tax Proposals | |
| Gilbert E. Metcalf; Sergey Paltsev; John Reilly; Henry Jacoby; Jennifer F. Holak | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-05-09 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The U.S. Congress is considering a set of bills designed to limit the nation's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This paper complements the analysis by Paltsev et al. (2007) of cap-and-trade bills and applies the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model to carry out an analysis of the tax proposals. Several lessons emerge from this analysis. First, a low starting tax rate combined with a low rate of growth in the tax rate will not reduce emissions significantly. Second, the costs of GHG reductions are reduced with the inclusion of non-CO2 gases in the carbon tax scheme. Third, welfare costs of the policies can be affected by the rate of growth of the tax, even after controlling for cumulative emissions. Fourth, a carbon tax -- like any form of carbon pricing -- is regressive. However, general equilibrium considerations suggest that the short-run measured regressivity may be overstated. Additionally, the regressivity can be offset with a carefully designed rebate of some or all of the revenue. Finally, the carbon tax bills that have been proposed or submitted are for the most part comparable to many of the carbon cap-and-trade proposals that have been suggested. Thus the choice between a carbon tax and cap-and-trade system can be made on the basis of considerations other than their effectiveness at reducing emissions over some control period. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13980 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571655 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gilbert E. Metcalf,Sergey Paltsev,John Reilly,et al. Analysis of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Tax Proposals. 2008. |
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| w13980.pdf（232KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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