Regulation in the presence of adjustment costs and resource scarcity. Transition dynamics and intertemporal effects

Halvor Briseid Storrøsten ()
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Abstract: This paper examines regulation in the presence of adjustment costs and resource scarcity, allowing for imperfectly informed firms. I find strong evidence that announcement of future environmental regulation will reduce current emissions in the combined presence of resource scarcity and adjustment costs. This contrasts with the results in the literature on the green paradox. Further, efficient transition towards a low emission economy requires an investment tax on emission intensive production, unless firms have perfect information about the future. Moreover, investments in clean substitutes should first receive a subsidy, but may thereafter be taxed. The optimal tax on production differs from the Pigouvian tax in the case of scarce resources. Last, a uniform tax across heterogeneous agents can induce the socially optimal outcome only if firms have equal expectations about the future.

Keywords: regulation; adjustment cost; imperfect information; exhaustible resources; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H21 H23 Q35 Q41 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2017-09
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