Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197796 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
FEMM Working Paper Series No. 19003
Publisher: 
Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg
Abstract: 
We assess a 2-period, non-cooperative equilibrium of an n country policy game where countries chose either (i) carbon taxes, (ii) cap-and-trade policy with local permit markets or (iii) cap-and-trade policy with internationally linked permit markets and potential central redistribution of permit revenues. Policy makers maximizes welfare, which depends on household consumption over time and environmental damage from period-1 resource use. We assume costless and complete extraction of this non-renewable resource, so damage only depends on speed of extraction. Tax policy is the least efficient option due to carbon leakage, which introduces a second externality adding to the environmental externality. Cap-and-trade policy does not show any leakage since all symmetric countries will employ caps. Its equilibrium thus only suffers from the environmental externality and welfare is higher than under carbon taxation. The policy scenario with linked permit markets and central redistribution yields an efficient outcome. The redistribution of revenues creates a negative externality which offsets the positive environmental externality.
Subjects: 
Climate Policy
Carbon Tax
Cap-and-Trade Policy
Linked Permit Markets
JEL: 
H23
Q38
Q54
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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