The supply-side climate policy of decreasing fossil fuel tax profiles: can subsidized reserves induce a green paradox?

Garth Day () and Creina Day
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Garth Day: Australian National University

Climatic Change, 2022, vol. 173, issue 3, No 11, 19 pages

Abstract: Abstract Fossil fuel producers develop too many reserves for combustion due to subsidies for upfront development costs. The conventional wisdom is that downward-sloping tax profiles avoid green paradox outcomes by reducing present extraction. This paper shows that accounting for subsidized reserves development can induce green paradox outcomes for downward-sloping income tax profiles. A theoretical model linking reserves development and extraction with climate change damages is developed to explore conditions for the weak and strong green paradox outcomes of higher present extraction and cumulative damages. We find that the weak green paradox arises under higher and flatter income tax profiles. The strong green paradox is an ambiguous outcome without subsidized reserves development. Quantitative examples demonstrate the effect of downward-sloping tax profiles on crude oil extraction and how the strong green paradox arises when delayed emissions are less relevant for damages.

Keywords: Supply-side climate policy; Fossil fuel producer subsidy; Taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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