EMISSION POLICIES AND THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: SIMULATIONS FROM A DYNAMIC APPLIED GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL

PROF Godwin Chukwudum Nwaobi ()

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Abstract: Recently, there has been growing concern that human activities may be affecting the global climate through growing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases(GHG). Such warming could have major impacts on economic activity and society. For the Nigerian case, the study uses multisector dynamic applied general equilibrium to quantify the economy- wide, distributional and environmental costs of policies to curb GHG emissions. The simulation results indicates effectiveness of carbon tax, tradeable permit and backstop technology policies in curbing GHG emissions but with distorted economy wide and income distributional effects. However, the model was found to be sensitive to three key exogenous variable and parameters tested: Lower GDP growth rate, changed interfuel substitution elasticity and autonomous energy efficiency improvement factor. Unlike the first test, the last two tests only had improved environmental effect but stable economy wide effect. This then suggests that domestic energy conservation measures could be a second best alternative.

Keywords: greenhouse gases(ghg), dynamic applied general equilibrium model, carbontax, tradeable permits, backstop technology, carbon dioxide(CO2), sulphur oxides(SOx); Nitrogen Oxides(NOx) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q43 C63 C68 D58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr and nep-cmp
Date: 2002-02-21
Note: Type of Document - MICROSOFT WORD; prepared on IBM PC ; to print on HP; pages: 70; figures: included. We acknowledge with thanks the generous grant provided by the AERC, OECD and ACW, that was used in carrying out this research.

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Journal Article: Emission policies and the Nigerian economy: simulations from a dynamic applied general equilibrium model (2004)
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