Is a Uniform Price on Carbon Desirable? A Public Finance Perspective

Felix Bierbrauer

No 11201, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Should climate policy rely on a price of Carbon that is uniform across sectors? This paper studies this question from a public finance perspective. It is found that a justification for a uniform price can be given, but it relies on strong assumptions, among them indifference with respect to the distributive consequences of climate policy. Distributive considerations may imply that sectors whose output is consumed mostly by “the poor” should contribute less to meeting the government’s emission target, whereas sectors whose output is consumed mostly by “the rich” should contribute more.

Keywords: climate policy; equity-efficiency trade-off; optimal taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 H21 H22 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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