Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26587 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2542
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Policies of lowering carbon demand may aggravate rather than alleviate climate change (green paradox). In a two-period three-country general equilibrium model with finite endowment of fossil fuel one country enforces an emissions cap in the first or second period. When that cap is tightened the extent of carbon leakage depends on the interaction of various parameters and elasticities. Conditions for the green paradox are specified. All determinants of carbon leakage resulting from tightening the first-period cap work in opposite direction when the second-period cap is tightened. Tightening the second-period cap does not necessarily lead to the green paradox.
Subjects: 
Carbon leakage
green paradox
emissions cap
JEL: 
H22
Q32
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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