Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180182 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge No. 186-18
Publisher: 
Universität Siegen, Fakultät III, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftsrecht, Siegen
Abstract: 
In a two-period model with two groups of countries that extract, trade and consume fossil fuel, a climate coalition fights against climate damage by purchasing or leasing deposits to prevent their extraction, and seeks to manipulate the fuel prices in its favor. The deposit-purchase policy is inefficient since it leaves the first-period climate damage externality non-internalized, which is in stark contrast to the efficiency of the deposit-purchase policy in static models. However, for a subset of economies the deposit-lease policy turns out to be efficient. It internalizes the climate damage externalities and makes strategic action in the fuel markets ineffective. Finally, we compare the deposit-lease policy and the deposit-purchase policy in an empirically calibrated economy. If strategic action pays in the fuel markets, a transition from the deposit-purchase policy to the deposit-lease policy increases the coalition's welfare if the discount rate is small.
Subjects: 
fossil fuel
deposit
deposit-lease policy
deposit-purchase policy
fuel cap
JEL: 
F55
H23
Q54
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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