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Coordinating climate and trade policies: Pareto efficiency and the role of border tax adjustments
This paper explores the role of trade instruments in globally efficient climate policies, focusing on the central issue of whether border tax adjustment (BTA) is warranted when carbon prices differ internationally. It shows that tariff policy has a role in easing crosscountry distributional concerns that can make non-uniform carbon pricing efficient, and that Pareto-efficiency requires a form of BTA when carbon taxes in some countries are constrained, a special case being identified in which this has the simple structure envisaged in practical policy discussion. It also stresses - a point that has been overlooked in the policy debate - that the case for BTA depends critically on whether climate policies are pursued by carbon taxation or by cap-and-trade.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3494
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
Trade and Environment
- Subject
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environmental taxation
cap-and-trade
international trade
Pareto efficiency
border tax adjustments
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Keen, Michael
Kotsogiannis, Christos
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2011
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Keen, Michael
- Kotsogiannis, Christos
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2011
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