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Swedish Industry and Kyoto – An Assessment of the Effects of the European CO2 Emission Permit Trading System

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Brännlund, Runar () (Department of Economics, Umeå University)
Lundgren, Tommy () (Department of Forest Economics)

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Abstract

We assess the effects on Swedish industry input and output demands of different climate policy scenarios

connected to energy policy induced by the Kyoto protocol. A unique data set containing firm level data

on outputs and inputs during the years 1991 – 2001 is used to estimate a factor demand model, which is

then simulated for different policy scenarios. Sector specific estimation suggests that the proposed

quadratic profit function specification exhibit properties and robustness that are consistent with economic

theory; that is, all own-price elasticities are negative and all output elasticities are positive. Furthermore,

the elasticities show that the input demands are, in most cases, relatively inelastic. Simulation of the

model for 6 different policy scenarios reveal that the effects on Swedish base industry of a EU level

permit trade system is dependent on (i) removal or no removal of current CO2 tax, (ii) the established

price of permits, and (iii) what will happen to the electricity price. Our analysis show that changes in

electricity price may be more important than the price of permits for some sectors.

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Paper provided by Umeå University, Department of Economics in its series Umeå Economic Studies with number 668.

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Date of creation: 05 Dec 2005
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Keywords: CO2- emissions; factor demand; fossil fuels; tradable permit market;

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D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior
L70 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction - - - General
Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects

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  1. Lundgren, Tommy & Sjostrom, Magnus, 2001. "A flexible specification of adjustment costs in dynamic factor demand models," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 72(2), pages 145-150, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Lau, Lawrence J., 1976. "A characterization of the normalized restricted profit function," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 12(1), pages 131-163, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Charlotte Nilsson & Bengt Kristöm, 2002. "The Costs of Going from Kyoto to Marrakech: Swedish Carbon Policy in a Multi-Regional Model," Working Paper Series 02/327, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Economics.
  4. Brannlund, Runar & Lundgren, Tommy, 2004. "A dynamic analysis of interfuel substitution for Swedish heating plants," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 26(6), pages 961-976, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  5. Lau, Lawrence J, 1972. "Profit Functions of Technologies with Multiple Inputs and Outputs," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 54(3), pages 281-89, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  6. Martin Hill & Bengt Kristöm, 2002. "Sectoral EU-trading and other Climate Policy Options: Impacts on the Swedish Economy," Working Paper Series 02/328, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Economics.
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  1. Hammar, Henrik & Lundgren, Tommy & Sjöström, Magnus, 2006. "The significance of transport costs in the Swedish forest industry," Working Paper 97, National Institute of Economic Research.
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