Is there a green paradox?

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A sufficiently rapidly rising carbon tax may increase near-term emissions compared with the case of no carbon tax. Even so, such a carbon tax path may reduce total costs related to climate change, since the tax may reduce total carbon extraction. A government cannot commit to a specific carbon tax rate in the distant future. For reasonable assumptions about expectation formation, a higher present carbon tax will reduce near-term carbon emissions. Moreover, whatever the expectations about future tax rates are, near-term emissions will decline for a sufficiently high carbon tax. However, if the near-term tax rate for some reason is set below its optimal level, increased concern for the climate may change taxes in a manner that increases near-term emissions.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3168

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: Demand and Supply; Prices ; Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: Government Policy ; Energy: Demand and Supply; Prices ; Energy: Government Policy ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming ; Environmental Economics: Government Policy
• Thema: climate change ; exhaustible resources ; green paradox ; carbon tax ; Klimaschutz ; Erschöpfbare Ressourcen ; Ökosteuer ; Kohlendioxid ; Umweltpolitik ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hoel, Michael
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2010

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46477
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ