Optimal Climate Policies in a Dynamic Multi-Country Equilibrium Model

Elmar Hillebrand () and Marten Hillebrand
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Elmar Hillebrand: EEFA Research Institute

No 1704, Working Papers from Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Abstract: This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with an arbitrary number of different regions to study the economic consequences of climate change under alternative climate policies. Regions di?er with respect to their state of economic development, factor endowments, and climate damages and trade on global markets for capital, output, and exhaustible resources. Our main result derives an optimal climate policy consisting of an emissions tax and a transfer policy. The optimal tax can be determined explicitly in our framework and is independent of any weights attached to the interests of different countries. Such weights only determine optimal transfers which distribute tax revenues across countries. We infer that the real political issue is not the tax policy required to reduce global warming but rather how the burden of climate change should be shared via transfer payments between di?erent countries. We propose a simple transfer policy which induces a Pareto improvement relative to the Laissez faire solution.

Keywords: Multi-region model; Dynamic equilibrium; Climate change; Optimal climate tax; Optimal transfer policy; Emissions trading system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E10 E61 H21 H23 Q43 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2017
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Journal Article: Optimal climate policies in a dynamic multi-country equilibrium model (2019)
Working Paper: Optimal Climate Policies in a Dynamic Multi-Country Equilibrium Model (2016)
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