Climate policy with tied hands: optimal resource taxation under implementation lags

Di Maria, Corrado ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3048-0506, Smulders, Sjak and van der Werf, Edwin (2017) Climate policy with tied hands: optimal resource taxation under implementation lags. Environmental and Resource Economics, 66 (3). 537–551. ISSN 0924-6460

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Abstract

In the presence of implementation lags, announced Pigouvian taxation leads to fossil fuel prices that are too low from society’s perspective. This results in excessive emissions and reduced incentives for green innovation. Such effects are compounded by the presence of pre-existing subsidies to fossil fuel use. We show that the intertemporal resource tax path may need to be modified to optimally take into account the perverse incentives from policy lags and pre-existing policies. We find that it might be optimal to subsidize, rather than tax resource extraction at the instant of implementation.

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Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Environment, Resources and Conflict Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Economic Theory Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Applied Econometrics And Finance Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	02 Nov 2016 11:00
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2023 12:42
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61196
DOI:	10.1007/s10640-016-0091-6

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