A Comparison of Alternative Pricing Scheme for Reducing Worldwide Carbon Emissions

Tarek Atalla, Simona Bigerna, C. Bollino
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In this paper, we derive several alternative pricing schemes to allocate worldwide taxation burden to reduce carbon emissions. We compare traditional allocation schemes with an optimal Ramsey pricing by applying the outcome of modeling heterogeneous consumer behavior across countries. Using empirical estimations of household behavior, we compute demand elasticity values for the 106 leading countries in the world, which constitute around 90% of total world energy consumption and carbon emissions for 2014. We calculate country-specific shares of the global cost of carbon emissions reduction, comparing alternative taxation options: a uniform tax scheme, an equitable tax scheme and a Ramsey pricing scheme, applied to the household sector of all countries worldwide. Our results show the relative welfare impact of different options, revealing that the optimal pricing scheme can improve world welfare and promote a reduction in total emissions.
减少全球碳排放的不同定价方案比较
在本文中,我们推导了几种可供选择的定价方案来分配全球税收负担以减少碳排放。通过对不同国家的异质消费者行为进行建模,我们比较了传统分配方案与最优拉姆齐定价。利用家庭行为的实证估计,我们计算了全球106个主要国家的需求弹性值,这些国家占2014年全球能源消费和碳排放总量的90%左右。我们计算了各国在全球碳减排成本中所占的份额,比较了适用于全球所有国家家庭部门的其他税收方案:统一税收方案、公平税收方案和拉姆齐定价方案。研究结果表明,最优定价方案能够提高全球福利水平,促进总排放量的减少。
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