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Performing an Environmental Tax Reform in a Regional Economy. A Computable General Equilibrium Approach

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Francisco J. André () (Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla)
M. Alejandro Cardenete () (Univ.Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla)
Esther Velázquez Alonso () (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

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We use a Computable General Equilibrium model to simulate the effects of an Environmental Tax Reform in a regional economy (Andalusia, Spain). The reform involves imposing a tax on CO2 or SO2 emissions and reducing either the Income Tax or the payroll tax of employers to Social Security, and eventually keeping public deficit unchanged. This approach enables us to test the so-called double dividend hypothesis, which states that this kind of reform is likely to improve both environmental and non-environmental welfare. In the economy under analysis, an employment double dividend arises when the payroll tax is reduced and, if CO2 emissions are selected as environmental target, a (limited) strong double could also be obtained. No double dividend appears when Income Tax is reduced to compensate the environmental tax.

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Paper provided by Centro de Estudios Andaluces in its series Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces with number E2004/04.

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Date of creation: 2004
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Keywords: environmental tax reform computable general equilibrium double dividend.

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D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies

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  1. Manuel Alejandro Cardenete Flores, 2006. "Federalismo fiscal a partir de un modelo de equilibrio general aplicado: Andalucía VS. España," Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces E2006/22, Centro de Estudios Andaluces. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Saveyn Bert & Van Regemorter Denise, 2007. "Environmental Policy in a Federal State - A Regional CGE Analysis of the NEC Directive in Belgium," Energy, Transport and Environment Working Papers Series ete0701, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Energy, Transport and Environment. [Downloadable!]
  5. Francisco J. André & Manuel Alejandro Cardenete, 2005. "Multicriteria Policy Making. Defining Efficient Policies in a General Equilibrium Model," Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces E2005/04, Centro de Estudios Andaluces. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Francisco J. André & M. Alejandro Cardenete & Carlos Romero, 2007. "A goal programming approach for a joint design of macroeconomic and environmental policies: a methodological proposal and an application to the spanish economy," Working Papers 07.12, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Departamento de Economía. [Downloadable!]
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