DOI: 10.1007/s10584-018-2163-9
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85045076607
论文题名: Coal taxes as supply-side climate policy: a rationale for major exporters?
作者: Richter P.M. ; Mendelevitch R. ; Jotzo F.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2018
起始页码: 1
结束页码: 14
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Carbon dioxide
; Commerce
; Environmental protection
; Global warming
; Taxation
; Carbon dioxide emissions
; Coal consumption
; Consumer surplus
; Economic benefits
; Equilibrium modeling
; Global emissions
; Low-carbon transitions
; Producer surplus
; Coal
英文摘要: The shift away from coal is at the heart of the global low-carbon transition. Can governments of coal-producing countries help facilitate this transition and benefit from it? This paper analyses the case for coal taxes as supply-side climate policy implemented by large coal exporting countries. Coal taxes can reduce global carbon dioxide emissions and benefit coal-rich countries through improved terms-of-trade and tax revenue. We employ a multi-period equilibrium model of the international steam coal market to study a tax on steam coal levied by Australia alone, by a coalition of major exporting countries, by all exporters, and by all producers. A unilateral export tax has little impact on global emissions and global coal prices as other countries compensate for reduced export volumes from the taxing country. By contrast, a tax jointly levied by a coalition of major coal exporters would significantly reduce global emissions from steam coal and leave them with a net sector level welfare gain, approximated by the sum of producer surplus, consumer surplus, and tax revenue. Production taxes consistently yield higher tax revenues and have greater effects on global coal consumption with smaller rates of carbon leakages. Questions remain whether coal taxes by major suppliers would be politically feasible, even if they could yield economic benefits. © 2018 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/83774
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 10, Dresden, Germany; German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Mohrenstrasse 58, Berlin, Germany; Resource Economics Group, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin, Germany; Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Lennox Crossing, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Richter P.M.,Mendelevitch R.,Jotzo F.. Coal taxes as supply-side climate policy: a rationale for major exporters?[J]. Climatic Change,2018-01-01