RT Journal Article
T1 The role of multiple pollutants and pollution intensities in the policy reform of taxes and standards.
A1 Gautier, Luis
K1 Contaminación
K1 Impuestos ambientales
K1 Política ambiental
AB Countries with varying degrees of pollution intensities, facing increasing global competition and addressing emissions from multiple pollutants may undertake policy reforms inconsistent with cooperative outcomes, where global welfare is higher. Among others, this is because of the incentives to set laxer policy to be more cost competitive. A number of welfare-enhancing and emissions-reducing policy reforms consistent with the cooperative equilibrium, but also consistent with addressing concerns about global competitiveness are derived. The analysis indicates that the nature of multiple pollutants and asymmetries in pollution intensities are key in the design of policy reform and characterization of optimal policy. With complementarity and asymmetry in pollution intensities, laxer taxation and stricter standards are consistent with welfare gains. Laxer taxation arises with large asymmetry in pollution intensities regardless of whether pollutants are complements/substitutes. The policy reform of standards requires both complementarity and asymmetry in pollution intensities. Results are reversed if pollutants are substitutes.
PB De Gruyter
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31790
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31790
LA eng
NO Gautier, Luis. "The Role of Multiple Pollutants and Pollution Intensities in the Policy Reform of Taxes and Standards" The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, vol. 19, no. 3, 2019, pp. 20180186. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2018-0186
NO Política de acceso abierto tomada de: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/19218
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026