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Tax distortions and global climate policy

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Babiker, Mustafa H.M.; Metcalf, Gilbert E.; Reilly, John M.
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Abstract
We consider the efficiency implications of policies to reduce global carbon emissions in a world with pre-existing tax distortions. We first show that the weak double dividend, the proposition that the welfare improvement from a tax reform where environme ntal taxes are used to lower distorting taxes must be greater than the welfare improvement from a reform where the environmental taxes are returned in a lump sum fashion, need not hold in a world with multiple distortions. A small analytic general equilib rium model is constructed to demonstrate this result. We then present a large-scale computable general equilibrium model of the world economy with distortionary taxation. We use this model to evaluate a number of policies to reduce carbon emissions. We find that the weak double dividend is not obtained in a number of European countries. Results also demonstrate the point that the interplay between carbon policies and pre-existing taxes can differ markedly across countries. Thus one must be cautious in extrapolating the results from a country specific analysis to other countries.
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Abstract in HTML and technical report in PDF available on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Website. (http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/)
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-18).
 
Date issued
2002-05
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http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/abstracts.html#a85
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3559
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MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
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no. 85
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Report no. 85

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