Arbeitspapier
Unilateral environmental policy and offshoring
Expanding on a general equilibrium model of offshoring, we analyze the effects of a unilateral emissions tax increase on the environment, income, and inequality. Heterogeneous firms allocate labor across production tasks and emissions abatement, while only the most productive can benefit from lower labor and/or emissions costs abroad and offshore. We find a non-monotonic effect on global emissions, which decline if the initial difference in emissions taxes is small. For a sufficiently large difference, global emissions rise, implying emissions leakage of more than 100%. The underlying driver is a global technique effect: While the emissions intensity of incumbent non-offshoring firms declines, the cleanest firms start offshoring. Moreover, offshoring firms become dirtier, induced by a reduction in the foreign effective emissions tax in general equilibrium. Implementing a BCA prevents emissions leakage, reduces income inequality in the reforming country, but raises inequality across countries.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Würzburg Economic Papers ; No. 110
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Trade and Environment
Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
Economic Integration
Environmental Economics: Government Policy
- Thema
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Offshoring
Emissions leakage
Environmental policy
BCA
Heterogeneous firms
Income inequality
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bolz, Simon J.
Naumann, Fabrice
Richter, Philipp M.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Würzburg, Department of Economics
- (wo)
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Würzburg
- (wann)
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2024
- DOI
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doi:10.25972/OPUS-35903
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-359033
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bolz, Simon J.
- Naumann, Fabrice
- Richter, Philipp M.
- University of Würzburg, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2024
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