| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Environmental tax reform : efficiency and political feasibility |
| Authors: | Felder, Stefan Schleiniger, Reto |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S0921-8009(02)00109-X |
| Published in: | Ecological Economics |
| Volume(Issue): | 42 |
| Issue: | 1-2 |
| Pages: | 107 |
| Pages to: | 116 |
| Issue Date: | 2002 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0921-8009 1873-6106 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Computable general equilibrium model; Political feasability; Cost efficiency; Environmental tax reform |
| Subject (DDC): | |
| Abstract: | Although market-based environmental measures like uniform CO2 taxes reach a given standard at minimal cost, they do not prevail in real world policies. An efficiency oriented environmental policy fails, as it involves a redistribution of pollution rights, resulting in a strong and generally effective opposition of the groups that forego economic rents. The present paper analyzes the trade-off between efficiency and political feasibility of several CO2 tax and reimbursement schemes, using a computable general equilibrium model of Switzerland. The simulation results indicate that a policy combining a uniform CO2 tax with differentiated labor subsidies preventing intersectoral redistribution is a better solution for the tradeoff than the presently existing tax schemes in various countries. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/13131 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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