Differentiated carbon prices and the economic cost of decarbonization

Landis, Florian; Rausch, Sebastian; Kosch, Mirjam

doi:10.1007/s10640-017-0130-y

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Differentiated carbon prices and the economic cost of decarbonization
Authors:	Landis, Florian Rausch, Sebastian Kosch, Mirjam
DOI:	10.1007/s10640-017-0130-y
Published in:	Environmental and Resource Economics
Volume(Issue):	70
Issue:	2
Page(s):	483
Pages to:	516
Issue Date:	2017
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
ISSN:	0924-6460 1573-1502
Language:	English
Subjects:	Decarbonization; Differentiated carbon tax; Fiscal interaction; Heterogeneous household
Subject (DDC):	333: Economics of land and resources
Abstract:	Employing a numerical general equilibrium model with multiple fuels, end-use sectors, heterogeneous households, and transport externalities, this paper examines three motives for differentiated carbon pricing in the context of Swiss climate policy: fiscal interactions with the existing tax code, non-CO2 related transport externalities, and social equity concerns. Interaction effects with mineral oil taxes reduce carbon taxes on motor fuels and transport externalities increase them. We show that the cost-effective overall carbon tax on motor fuels should be lower than the one on thermal fuels. This is found in spite of the fact that pre-existing taxes on motor fuels are well below our estimate of the transport externality per unit of transport fuel consumption. Differentiating taxes in favor of motor fuels yields only slightly more equitable incidence effects among households, suggesting that equity considerations play a minor role when designing differentiated carbon pricing policies.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/16537
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	School of Management and Law
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Management and Law

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Landis, F., Rausch, S., & Kosch, M. (2017). Differentiated carbon prices and the economic cost of decarbonization. Environmental and Resource Economics, 70(2), 483–516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-017-0130-y

Landis, F., Rausch, S. and Kosch, M. (2017) ‘Differentiated carbon prices and the economic cost of decarbonization’, Environmental and Resource Economics, 70(2), pp. 483–516. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-017-0130-y.

F. Landis, S. Rausch, and M. Kosch, “Differentiated carbon prices and the economic cost of decarbonization,” Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 483–516, 2017, doi: 10.1007/s10640-017-0130-y.

LANDIS, Florian, Sebastian RAUSCH und Mirjam KOSCH, 2017. Differentiated carbon prices and the economic cost of decarbonization. Environmental and Resource Economics. 2017. Bd. 70, Nr. 2, S. 483–516. DOI 10.1007/s10640-017-0130-y

Landis, Florian, Sebastian Rausch, and Mirjam Kosch. 2017. “Differentiated Carbon Prices and the Economic Cost of Decarbonization.” Environmental and Resource Economics 70 (2): 483–516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-017-0130-y.

Landis, Florian, et al. “Differentiated Carbon Prices and the Economic Cost of Decarbonization.” Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 70, no. 2, 2017, pp. 483–516, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-017-0130-y.