Trade liberalization and the choice of pollution abatement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21691037 |
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| Authors | Takumi Haibara (0000-0001-9641-4926, Aichi University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 257-277 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Development Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1355-770X • E-ISSN: 1469-4395 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1355770x24000068 |
| OpenAlex | W4393461123 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
It is well known that a consumer price-neutral reform of consumption taxes and import tariffs is welfare-improving. This paper shows that such price controls are inferior to quantity controls in terms of welfare improvement. The paper next turns to a comparison of different abatement strategies. Whether or not policy changes should fix private abatement or public abatement relates to the level of earmarking, and depends on the relationship between private production and public abatement. There are cases in which increased public abatement only improves welfare by more than both increased private and public abatement together. The paper recommends that environmental earmarking in the form of public abatement should be delivered to cushion price hikes and sustain private energy consumption
Biology · Business · Economics · Free trade · International economics · International trade · Liberalization · Market economy · Natural resource economics · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth · Environmental Science · Ecology · Pollution
Tax Principles and Tariff-Tax Reforms
Tariff and Environmental Tax Reforms in a Polluted Small Open Economy with Public Production
Effectiveness, earmarking and labeling
Public acceptance for environmental taxes
Revenue-increasing and welfare-enhancing reform of taxes on exports
Tariff–tax reforms and market access
The Economics of Earmarked Taxes
How to Regulate Carbon Emissions with Climate-Conscious Consumers
Time Inconsistency in Environmental Policy
| Highly cited | No |
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