Optimal Fossil-Fuel Taxation with Backstop Technologies and Tenure Risk

Optimal Fossil-Fuel Taxation with Backstop Technologies and Tenure Risk

The paper derives the global welfare-optimizing time path for a tax on fossil fuels causing a negative stock externality (climate change), under increasing marginal extraction cost, and in the presence of an unlimited backstop resource causing no externality. In a basic competitive case, the optimal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strand, Jon
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency
Optimal Taxation H210
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities
Redistributive Effects
Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT) H250
Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Hydrocarbon Fuels L710
Energy: Demand and Supply Q410
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4964

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