| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w19644
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 19644
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| Can Negotiating a Uniform Carbon Price Help to Internalize the Global Warming Externality? |
| Martin Weitzman
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| 发表日期 | 2013-11-14
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| 出版年 | 2013
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Thus far, most approaches to resolving the global warming externality have been quantity based. With n different national entities, a meaningful comprehensive treaty involves negotiating n different binding emissions quotas (whether tradeable or not). In post-Kyoto practice this n-dimensional coordination problem has proven intractable and has essentially devolved into sporadic regional volunteerism. By contrast, on the price side there is a natural one-dimensional focus on negotiating a single binding carbon price, the proceeds from which are domestically retained. Significantly (and unlike negotiated quantities) the negotiated uniform price on carbon emissions embodies an automatic "countervailing force" against free-riding self interest by incentivizing agents to internalize the externality. The model of this paper indicates an exact sense in which each agent's extra cost from a higher emissions price is counter-balanced by that agent's extra benefit from inducing (via the higher emissions price) all other agents to simultaneously lower their emissions. With some further restrictions, the theoretical model shows that population-weighted majority rule for a uniform price on carbon emissions can come as close to global efficiency as the median marginal benefit (per capita) is close to the mean marginal benefit (per capita). |
| 主题 | Environmental and Resource Economics
; Environment
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19644
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577318
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Martin Weitzman. Can Negotiating a Uniform Carbon Price Help to Internalize the Global Warming Externality?. 2013.
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