Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/41089 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge No. 135-09
Publisher: 
Universität Siegen, Fakultät III, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftsrecht, Siegen
Abstract: 
We model EU-type carbon emissions control in a group of countries to explore the distributional incidence of mixed policies that consist of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) and of emissions taxes overlapping with the ETS. Such policies impact on national welfares through both the overlapping taxes and the distribution of national emissions caps. Our main proposition is an equivalence result stating that for every mixed policy, there exists an ETS policy without overlapping taxes yielding the same levels of national welfare as the mixed policy. We also suggest two measures of the net distributional incidence of mixed policies.
Subjects: 
emissions cap
emissions tax
emissions trading
JEL: 
H23
Q52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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