Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57264 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge No. 149-11
Publisher: 
Universität Siegen, Fakultät III, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftsrecht, Siegen
Abstract: 
This note investigates the suitability of unilateral consumption taxes for alleviating climate change in a two-period two-country general equilibrium model with a finite stock of fossil fuel. We analyze the incidence of a unilateral consumption tax in the first period on world carbon emissions. If countries are identical or if the taxing country imports both fossil fuel and consumption goods in the second period, increases in the tax rate lower first-period carbon emissions in both countries implying a negative rate of carbon leakage.
Subjects: 
unilateral consumption tax
world emissions
leakage
JEL: 
H22
Q38
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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