Arbeitspapier

Environmental Damage and Price Taking Behaviour by Firms and Consumers

Integrated assessment models lack a microeconomic foundation in modelling environmental damages to the economy. To overcome this, damage coefficients are incorporated in standard microeconomic models. Firms and consumers take both damages and prices as given. Demand, supply, profit and expenditure functions under damage coefficients are derived that allow easy implementation in applied economic models through appropriate price distortions related to such coefficients. For the consumer, Slutsky's equations are derived. The different speeds of equilibrium adjustment in economic and climate models is reconciled in the Recursive Equilibrium with Environmental Damages (REED). An exchange economy and Robinson Crusoe economy illustrate our approach.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 09-029/1

Classification
Wirtschaft
Energy: Demand and Supply; Prices
Valuation of Environmental Effects
Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
Consumer Economics: Theory
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Exchange and Production Economies
Subject
environmental damage
substitution effects
income effects
Slutky's equations
equilibrium
Umweltbelastung
Mikroökonomik
Substitutionseffekt
Einkommenseffekt
Klimaschutz
Gleichgewichtstheorie
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Houba, Harold
Kremers, Hans
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Tinbergen Institute
(where)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(when)
2009

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Houba, Harold
  • Kremers, Hans
  • Tinbergen Institute

Time of origin

  • 2009

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