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Kellner, Maximilian; Runkel, Marco - 2021

This paper analyzes the optimal level of public debt when taxes are used not only for funding public expenditures but also for correcting externalities from climate change. Taking into account externalities implies that the optimal policy deviates from tax smoothing. Provided cumulative marginal...

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Optimal Energy Taxes and Subsidies under a Cost-Effective Unilateral Climate Policy : Addressing Carbon Leakage

Kruse-Andersen, Peter - 2019

domestic and foreign production of other goods. The optimal tax-subsidy scheme is based on an intuitive principle: Impose a …. Producers of renewables-based electricity should receive a subsidy to internalize their contribution to the reduction of global …

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Carbon Prices are Redundant in the 2030 EU Climate and Energy Policy Package

Aune, Finn Roar - 2019

In June 2018, an agreement between key EU institutions – the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council – was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a comprehensive assessment of the EU package, with its...

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Optimal Carbon Taxation and Horizontal Equity : A Welfare-Theoretic Approach with Application to German Household Data

Hänsel, Martin C.; Franks, Max; Kalkuhl, Matthias; … - 2021

We develop a model of optimal carbon taxation and redistribution taking into account horizontal equity concerns by considering heterogeneous energy efficiencies. By deriving first- and secondbest rules for policy instruments including carbon taxes, transfers and energy subsidies, we then...

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Optimal Solar Subsidies

Colas, Mark; Saulnier, Emmett - 2023

We study the spatial misallocation resulting from subsidies for residential solar panels in the US and quantify the associated environmental costs. We build a structural model of solar panel demand and electricity production across the country and estimate the model by combining 1) remotely...

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Advancing Global Carbon Abatement with a Two-Tier Climate Club

Iverson, Terrence - 2022

A two-tier climate club exploits the comparative advantage of large countries to mete out punishments through trade, while taking their capacity to resist punishment as a constraint. Countries outside the coalition price carbon at a fixed fraction of the average carbon price adopted within the...

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Opimal Unilateral Climate Policy with Carbon Leakage at the Extensive and the Intensive Margin

Kjær Kruse-Andersen, Peter; Birch Sørensen, Peter - 2021

final goods, an output subsidy as well as a lump-sum location subsidy to leakage-exposed firms, subsidies to carbon capture …, taxes on domestic production of fossil fuels, and a subsidy to domestic production of green energy. Simulation experiments … indicate that the social welfare gain from implementing the optimal leakage-adjusted tax-subsidy scheme rather than a single …

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The Reverse Waterbed Effect of Sector Coupling — Unilateral Climate Policies and Multilateral Emissions Trading

Böhringer, Christoph; Helm, Carsten - 2023

It is widely acknowledged that the transition towards a zero-emissions economy requires electrification of energy-related processes across all sectors of the economy — so-called sector coupling. In our analysis we consider countries whose electricity sectors are regulated by a multilateral...

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On Differentiated Carbon Prices and Discount Rates

Anthoff, David; Dennig, Francis; Emmerling, Johannes - 2021

The consensus view amongst economists is that carbon prices, in order to be effcient, must be the same across the globe. But when there are inefficiencies in the allocation of capital so that consumers in different countries face different discount rates, we show that efficient carbon prices...

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Endogenous Emission Caps Always Induce a Green Paradox

Gerlagh, Reyer - 2019

For any emission trading system (ETS) with quantity-based endogenous supply of allowances, there exists a negative demand shock, e.g. induced by abatement policy, that increases aggregate supply and thus cumulative emissions. We prove this green paradox for a general model and then apply it to...

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