GTAP Resources: Resource Display
| GTAP Resource #3668 |
|---|
|
"Unilateral climate policy and competitiveness: Differential emission pricing from a sectoral, regional and global perspective" by Böhringer, Christoph and Victoria Alexeeva-Talebi Abstract Unilateral emission reduction commitments raise concerns on international competitiveness and emission leakage that result in preferential regulatory treatment of domestic energy-intensive and trade-exposed industries. Our analysis illustrates the potential pitfalls of climate policy design which narrowly focuses on competitiveness concerns about energy-intensive and trade-exposed branches. The sector-specific gains of preferential regulation in favour of these branches must be traded off against the additional burden imposed on other industries and economy-wide excess costs to meet the unilateral emission reduction target. From the perspective of global cost-effectiveness, however, preferential emission pricing for domestic energy-intensive and trade-exposed sectors can reduce leakage and thereby lower overall cost of cutting global emissions as compared to uniform emission pricing. JEL Classification: D58, H21, H22, Q48 Keywords: unilateral climate policy design, leakage, competitiveness |
| Resource Details (Export Citation) | GTAP Keywords | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
- Climate change policy |
| Attachments |
|---|
|
If you have trouble accessing any of the attachments below due to disability, please contact the authors listed above.
Public Access  2011 Conference Paper (361.2 KB) Replicated: 0 time(s)Restricted Access No documents have been attached. Special Instructions No instructions have been specified. |
| Comments (0 posted) |
|---|
|
You must log in before entering comments.
No comments have been posted. |
Last Modified: 8/11/2025 8:05:27 AM
