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Competitive Dominance of Emission Trading Over Pigouvian Taxation in a Globalized Economy

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It is well-known that the Pigouvian taxation scheme and emission trading scheme (delegating the emission pricing authority to the market mechanism) offer equivalent incentives to reduce emissions in various autarky settings. In contrast, we demonstrate that in a globalized economy with international trade and cross border pollution, adopting the latter is the strict dominant strategy of each country, and global welfare is maximized when all countries adopt the latter. Adopting the latter incentivizes the other country to tighten its environmental regulation without concern for excessive shrink of domestic production and aggravation of cross border pollution from the adopting country. JEL Classification: H23, L51, Q56, Q58

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  • Seung-Gyu Sim & Hsuan-Chih Lin, 2016. "Competitive Dominance of Emission Trading Over Pigouvian Taxation in a Globalized Economy," IEAS Working Paper : academic research 16-A004, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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    • H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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