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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