Tariff and environmental policies with product standards

Chi-Chur Chao, Jean-Pierre Laffargue () and Pasquale Sgro ()
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Chi-Chur Chao: Graduate School of Business - Deakin University [Burwood]
Jean-Pierre Laffargue: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: For a small open economy with consumption-based pollution emissions, the first-best optimal policy prescription is free trade along with a Pigouvian tax on emissions. Therefore, a package of coordinated tax reform by replacing tariffs with emission taxes can lower pollution emissions and increase market access and hence improve residents' welfare and government revenue, as long as the initial tariffs are relatively high. Numerical simulations confirm the results obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Keywords: environmental policy; consumption; pollution; free trade; tax reform; welfare economics; government revenue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-08
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Published in Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d'Économique, 2012, 45 (3), pp.978-995. ⟨10.1111/j.1540-5982.2012.01723.x⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2012.01723.x

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