Intermediate input linkage and carbon leakage

Zengkai Zhang and ZhongXiang Zhang
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Zengkai Zhang: College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University

CCEP Working Papers from Centre for Climate & Energy Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Abstract: Climate regulations tend to target energy intensive sectors whose products are widely used in industrial production as intermediate inputs, such as electricity, and the carbon abatement may be partially offset by intermediate input-led leakage. This paper aims to examine the impact of intermediate input linkage on the carbon leakage both theoretically and empirically. We develop a Harberger-type model with an input-output linkage structure, identify four leakage effects and derive closed-form solutions for these leakage effects. For empirical simulation, we build a computable general equilibrium model of China’s economy and introduce Structural Decomposition Analysis to link both the theoretical and empirical models. When imposing a carbon price on the electricity generation sector, our results show significant carbon leakage. Our decomposition analysis further suggests that such leakage is mainly through the production substitution effect, followed by the multiplier effect. Both of the two effects are closely related to the intermediate input linkage, and thus shed some light on the importance of considering sectoral linkage when discussing the carbon leakage issue of climate policies.

Keywords: carbon leakage; sectoral linkage; climate regulation; general equilibrium model; production substitution effect; multiplier effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F18 O13 O31 O33 O44 Q43 Q48 Q55 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09
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