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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w20334 |
来源ID | Working Paper 20334 |
Multiple Pollutants, Uncovered Sectors, and Suboptimal Environmental Policies | |
Don Fullerton; Daniel H. Karney | |
发表日期 | 2014-07-24 |
出版年 | 2014 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | In our analytical general equilibrium model where two polluting inputs can be substitutes or complements in production, we study the effects of a tax on one pollutant in two cases: one where both pollutants face taxes and the second where the other pollutant is subject to a permit policy. In each case, we solve for closed-form solutions that highlight important parameters. We demonstrate two important ways that environmental taxes and permits are not equivalent. First, the change in the pollutant facing a tax increase depends on whether the other pollutant is subject to a tax or permit policy. Second, if that other pollutant is subject to a tax, then general equilibrium effects can increase or decrease its quantity (affecting overall welfare). However, when the second pollutant is subject to a permit policy that binds, then welfare is not affected by this spillover effect. Finally, a numerical exercise helps demonstrate these two ways that taxes and permits differ. Using the example of coal-fired power plants, our numerical exercise examines the impacts of increasing a hypothetical carbon tax on the quantity of sulfur dioxide emissions. |
主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy ; Environment |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20334 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
引用统计 | |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578007 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Don Fullerton,Daniel H. Karney. Multiple Pollutants, Uncovered Sectors, and Suboptimal Environmental Policies. 2014. |
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