Reducing fuel subsidy or taxing carbon? Comparing the two instruments from the economy, environment, and equity perspective for Indonesia

Arief Yusuf and Arief Ramayandi

No 200808, Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WoPEDS) from Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University

Abstract: Reducing fuel subsidy and taxing carbon have a tendency toward reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions. However, both instruments may have differing impacts in their magnitudes of the emissions reduction and on the economy as a whole. Using INDONESIA-E3 (Economy-Equity-Environment) model, a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model which includes carbon emissions, carbon taxation, as well as, strong feature in distributional analysis, this paper compares and contrast the two instruments to find which policy is better in improving the three pillars of sustainable development: economy, equity, and the environment. The result suggests that given the same amount of government budget saving, carbon tax is relatively superior to using a fuel subsidy reduction instrument, because it can accelerate the decline in CO2 emissions with a lower cost on the economy in terms of GDP reduction with more favorable distributional effect. This has not taken into account the economic incentives it creates for the economy to be less reliant on carbon-intensive energy.

Keywords: Carbon Tax; Fuel Subsidyc Climate Change; CGE; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D30 D58 Q40 Q48 Q54 Q56 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2008-10, Revised 2008-10
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