Incomplete Environmental Regulation, Imperfect Competition, and Emissions Leakage

Incomplete Environmental Regulation, Imperfect Competition, and Emissions Leakage
Author: Meredith Fowlie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2008
Genre: Pollution
ISBN:

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For political, jurisdictional and technical reasons, environmental regulation of industrial pollution is often incomplete: regulations apply to only a subset of facilities contributing to a pollution problem. Policymakers are increasingly concerned about the emissions leakage that may occur if unregulated production can be easily substituted for production at regulated firms. This paper analyzes emissions leakage in an incompletely regulated and imperfectly competitive industry. When regulated producers are less polluting than their unregulated ounterparts, emissions under incomplete regulation can exceed the level of emissions that would have occurred in the absence of regulation. Converseley, when regulated firms are relatively more polluting, aggregate emissions under complete regulation can exceed aggregate emissions under incomplete regulation. In a straightforward application of the theory of the second best, I show that incomplete regulation can welfare dominate complete regulation of emissions from an asymmetric oligopoly. The model is used to simulate greenhouse gas emissions from California's electricity sector under a source-based cap-and-trade program. Incomplete regulation that exempts out-of-state producers achieves approximately a third of the emissions reductions achieved under complete regulation at more than twice the cost per ton of emissions abated.

Optimal Carbon Leakage

Optimal Carbon Leakage
Author: Topi Hokkanen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre:
ISBN: 9789523234499

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Carbon leakage is one of the major issues facing policymakers today when designing environmental regulation. While the empirical and trade literature on carbon leakage is rich, much less is known about the implications of carbon leakage risk on optimal regulatory policies under asymmetric information. To this end, I derive the optimal incentive compatible mechanism to regulate polluting firms under asymmetric information of both their abatement costs and carbon leakage risk, which I model as type-dependent outside options. The resulting regulatory distortions depend on the affiliation between the firm's abatement and relocation costs. The optimal policy is less strict than first-best whenever this affiliation is negative or mildly positive, whereas under strong positive affiliation I find a novel upwards distortion in the optimal policy. My results imply that rather than being a byproduct of unsuccessful regulation, carbon leakage may be the optimally induced outcome of incentive compatible regulation, contrasting with the received wisdom in policy debate.

Carbon Leakage Induced by Air Pollution Control Policy

Carbon Leakage Induced by Air Pollution Control Policy
Author: Fei Liu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre:
ISBN:

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Environmental regulations can oen lead to leakage due to the increased cost. In this paper, we investigate the carbon leakage induced by the air pollution control policy that focuses on PM2.5 mitigation in China - Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Air Pollution. We employ a one-to-one nearest neighbour matching technique to overcome the significant challenge posed by the policy design. Our findings demonstrate unambiguous evidence that the Action Plan resulted in significant carbon leakage of 151 thousand tonnes of CO2 emissions each year. This translates to an annual increase of CO2 emissions by around 4.4% in the surroundingregions. We validate our empirical findings through a battery of tests. we also explore the heterogeneity of our analysis and investigate the potential economic benefits and the possible channels.

Applied General Equilibrium Analysis

Applied General Equilibrium Analysis
Author: Herbert E. Scarf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521070935

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This book presents a collection of articles on applied general equilibrium analysis by major contributors to this field. This rapidly expanding method of analysis involves the use of computers to study entire economies and the interrelationships among firms, households and governments in these economies. There are also articles on the particular computational techniques involved in the numerical estimation of these equilibrium models and on several particular applications. Papers deal with the United States, Mexican and Australian economies. Other chapters provide an analysis of long-run energy problems, fiscal federalism and economic planning.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Author:
Publisher: World Business Pub.
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Business enterprises
ISBN: 9781569735688

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The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard helps companies and other organizations to identify, calculate, and report GHG emissions. It is designed to set the standard for accurate, complete, consistent, relevant and transparent accounting and reporting of GHG emissions.

The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy

The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy
Author: Don Fullerton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226269140

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"This book contains the proceedings of an NBER conference held in Washington, DC, on May 13-14, 2010"--Page xi.