Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26420
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2375
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We present a two-good, two-country overlapping generations model where emissions arise from production and each country has a domestic emission permit system. When one country unilaterally reduces her cap on emissions, her output available for domestic and foreign consumption diminishes more than in the other country. With unchanged consumption expenditure shares for both goods the terms of trade improve, while capital stocks decline in the reducing and less strongly in the non-reducing country. The net welfare effect of improving terms of trade and falling capital stocks is negative in both countries. However, if the country which unilaterally reduces her emission permits is a net creditor to the world economy, her own welfare loss remains below that of the non-reducing country.
Subjects: 
Capital accumulation
emission permits
terms of trade
overlapping generations
welfare
JEL: 
F11
Q56
D91
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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