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Carbon policy in a high-growth economy: The case of China

There is widespread concern that an international agreement on stringent climate policies will not be reached because it would imply too high costs for fast growing economies like China. To quantify these costs we develop a general equilibrium model with fully endogenous growth. The framework includes disaggregated industrial and energy sectors, endogenous innovation, and sector-specific investments. We find that the implementation of Chinese government carbon policies until 2020 causes a welfare reduction of 0.3 percent. For the long run up to 2050 we show that welfare costs of internationally coordinated emission reduction targets lie between 3 and 8 percent. Assuming faster energy technology development, stronger induced innovation, and rising energy prices in the reference case reduces welfare losses significantly. We argue that increased urbanization raises the costs of carbon policies due to altered consumption patterns.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Economics Working Paper Series ; No. 14/201

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East
Computable General Equilibrium Models
Thema
Carbon policy
China
Endogenous growth
Induced innova- tion
Urbanization
Internationale Umweltpolitik
Soziale Kosten
Wirtschaftswachstum
Innovation
Urbanisierung
Allgemeines Gleichgewicht
Endogenes Wachstumsmodell
China

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bretschger, Lucas
Zhang, Lin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research
(wo)
Zurich
(wann)
2014

DOI
doi:10.3929/ethz-a-010185416
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bretschger, Lucas
  • Zhang, Lin
  • ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research

Entstanden

  • 2014

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