Dynamic Climate Policy with Both Strategic and Non-Strategic Agents : Taxes Versus Quantities

This paper studies a dynamic game where each of two large blocs, of fossil fuel importers and exporters respectively, sets either taxes or quotas to exercise power in fossil-fuel markets. The main novel feature is the inclusion of a "fringe" of non- strategic (emerging and developing) countries which both consume and produce fossil fuels. Cumulated emissions over time from global fossil fuel consumption create climate damages which are considered by both the strategic importer and the non-strategic countries. Markov perfect equilibria are examined under the four combinations of trade policies and compared with the corresponding static games where climate damages are given (not stock-related). The main results are that taxes always dominate quota policies for both the strategic importer and exporter and that "fringe"countries bene?t from a tax policy as compared with a quota policy for the strategic importer, as the import fuel price then is lower, and the strategic importer's fuel consumption is also lower, thus causing fewer climate damages.

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Main Authors: Karp, Larry, Siddiqui, Sauleh, Strand, Jon
Format: Policy Research Working Paper biblioteca
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013-10
Subjects:ABATEMENT, ACCOUNTING, AGGREGATE DEMAND, AGGREGATE SUPPLY, AVERAGE PRODUCTION COSTS, BENCHMARK, BUDGET, CAPS, CARBON EMISSIONS, CARBON TAX, CHECK, CHOICE, CLIMATE, CLIMATE DAMAGES, CLIMATE POLICY, COMMODITY, COMMODITY MARKETS, COMPETITIVE EQUILIBRIUM, CONSUMER SURPLUS, CONSUMERS, CONSUMPTION, DAMAGES, DEMAND, DEMAND CURVE, DEMAND CURVES, DEMAND ELASTICITY, DEMAND FUNCTION, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, DISCOUNT, DISCOUNT FACTOR, DISCOUNT RATE, DISCOUNTED VALUE, DOMESTIC PRICE, DOMESTIC PRODUCTION, DYNAMIC MODEL, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, ECONOMIC RESEARCH, ELASTICITY, ELASTICITY OF DEMAND, ELASTICITY OF SUPPLY, EMISSIONS, EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, EQUATIONS, EQUILIBRIUM, EQUILIBRIUM PRICE, EQUILIBRIUM PRICES, EQUILIBRIUM VALUES, EXCESS DEMAND, EXCESS SUPPLY, EXCHANGE, EXPORTER, EXPORTERS, EXPORTS, EXTERNALITY, FREE RIDER, FREE TRADE, FUEL PRICES, FUTURE, GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL, GOOD, IMPLICIT TAX, IMPORTS, INCENTIVES, INELASTIC DEMAND, INSTRUMENT, INSTRUMENTS, INTERNATIONAL BANK, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, energy, environment,
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/10/18447749/dynamic-climate-policy-both-strategic-non-strategic-agents-taxes-versus-quantities
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16894
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