Arbeitspapier

Climate Policy Enhances Efficiency: A Macroeconomic Portfolio Effect

Carbon pricing regulates emission flows and collects rents from underlying fossil resource stocks. The resulting investment shift implies lower climate policy costs and improved welfare if capital is underaccumulated. We prove that under emission trading, such a beneficial macroeconomic portfolio effect between fossil stocks and capital is induced if some permits are auctioned. Alternatively, a carbon tax also induces a portfolio effect, but cannot simultaneously implement a given mitigation path and collect an arbitrary rent share. Finally, treating the right to recurrently receive a share of total emission permits as a tradable asset is formally, but not politically equivalent.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5161

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: General
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Thema
carbon pricing
resource rent taxation
overlapping generations
capital underaccumulation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Siegmeier, Jan
Mattauch, Linus
Edenhofer, Ottmar
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2015

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Siegmeier, Jan
  • Mattauch, Linus
  • Edenhofer, Ottmar
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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