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Pricing the ecosystem and taxing ecosystem services: A general equilibrium approach

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  • Eichner, Thomas
  • Pethig, Rüdiger

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In an integrated dynamic general equilibrium model of the economy and the ecosystem humans and other species compete for land and prey biomass. Each submodel exhibits a price-driven competitive allocation mechanism, and the endogenously determined habitat is either openly accessible or privately owned. In both scenarios specific corrective taxes or subsidies are needed to internalize ecosystem externalities. An open access habitat causes additional inefficiencies through diverging prices for biomass and land in both subsystems. Values of all ecosystem components are determined in an efficient steady state clarifying the role and the interplay of ecosystem prices and economic prices.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Journal of Economic Theory.

Volume (Year): 144 (2009)
Issue (Month): 4 (July)
Pages: 1589-1616

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Handle: RePEc:eee:jetheo:v:144:y:2009:i:4:p:1589-1616

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Keywords: Land Biomass Ecosystem services;

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  1. Thomas Eichner & Rüdiger Pethig, 2007. "Harvesting in an integrated general equilibrium model," Environmental & Resource Economics, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 37(1), pages 233-252, May.
  2. J. Atsu Amegashie & Bazoumana Ouattara & Eric Strobl, 2007. "Moral Hazard and the Composition of Transfers: Theory with an Application to Foreign Aid," Working Papers 0702, University of Guelph, Department of Economics.
  3. John Tschirhart, 2012. "Biology as a Source of Non-convexities in Ecological Production Functions," Environmental & Resource Economics, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 51(2), pages 189-213, February.

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