REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONAL CARBON TAXES

Trade and Carbon Taxes

Trade implications of environmental taxes

Carbon Taxes and Deficit Reduction

This paper looks at both the efficiency and distributional implications of a carbon tax and/or other energy taxes as part of a package of measures to address the budget deficit. We build a dynamic general-equilibrium overlapping-generations model (OLG) of the U.S. economy, including detail on government taxes and expenditures and a disaggregated production structure including several energy ind...

Regional carbon dioxide implications of forest bioenergy production

Policies are being developed worldwide to increase bioenergy production as a substitution for fossil fuel to mitigate fossil fuelderived carbon dioxide emissions, the main cause of anthropogenic global climate change4,5. However, the capacity for forest sector bioenergy production to offset carbon dioxide emissions is limited by fossil fuel emissions from this activity (harvest, transport, and ...

Some Basic Economics of Carbon Taxes

This paper asks three questions. First, how do carbon taxes drive economic and environmental outcomes? Second, what is the appropriate economic base on which carbon taxes should be levied? Finally, how well does a carbon tax deliver economicenvironmental outcomes compared to a comparable emissions trading scheme.