Boehringer, Christoph
[VerfasserIn]
;
Rosendahl, Knut Einar
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Storrosten, Halvor Briseid
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Erschienen in:CESifo Working Paper Series ; No. 5459
Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (38 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2639584
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 31, 2015 erstellt
Beschreibung:
Unilateral climate policy induces carbon leakage through the relocation of emission-intensive and trade-exposed industries to regions with no or more lenient emission regulation. Both analytical and numerical studies suggest that emission pricing combined with border carbon adjustments may be a second-best instrument, and more cost-effective than output-based rebating, in which case domestic output is indirectly subsidized. No countries have so far imposed border carbon adjustments, while variants of output-based rebating have been implemented. In this paper we demonstrate that it is welfare improving for a region who has already implemented emission pricing along with output-based rebating for emission-intensive and trade-exposed goods to also introduce a consumption tax on these goods. Moreover, we show that combining output-based rebating with a consumption tax can be equivalent with border carbon adjustments