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A Real-Business-Cycle model with pollution and environmental taxation: the case of Bulgaria

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We introduce an environmental dimension into a real-business-cycle model augmented with a detailed government sector. We calibrate the model to Bulgarian data for the period following the introduction of the currency board arrangement (1999-2016). We investigate the quantitative importance of utility-enhancing environmental quality, and the mechanics of environmental ("carbon") tax on polluting production, as well as the effect of government spending on pollution abatement over the cycle. In particular, a positive shock to pollution emission in the model works like a positive technological shock, but its effect is quantitatively very small. Allowing for pollution as a by-product of production improves the model performance against data, and in addition this extended setup dominates the standard RBC model framework, e.g., Vasilev (2009).

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  • Vasilev, Aleksandar, 2018. "A Real-Business-Cycle model with pollution and environmental taxation: the case of Bulgaria," EconStor Preprints 175648, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
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    1. Vasilev, Aleksandar, 2018. "Optimal fiscal policy with environmental tax and abatement spending in a model with pollution and utility-enhancing environmental quality: the case of Bulgaria," EconStor Preprints 175661, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    2. Aleksandar Vasilev, 2019. "Optimal fiscal policy with environmental tax and pollution abatement spending in a model with utility-enhancing environmental quality: lessons from Bulgaria," Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(1), pages 24-35, January.
    3. Juhro, Solikin M. & Iyke, Bernard Njindan & Narayan, Paresh Kumar, 2024. "Capital flow dynamics and the synchronization of financial cycles and business cycles in emerging market economies," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    4. Vasilev, Aleksandar, 2021. "A Real-Business-Cycle model with robots: Lessons for Bulgaria," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 7(2), pages 7-15.
    5. Arnita Rishanty & Sekar Utami Setiastuti & Nur M. Adhi Purwanto, 2021. "The Growth Agenda And Financing Green Projects: An Environmental Dsge Approach," Working Papers WP/13/2021, Bank Indonesia.
    6. Maria Teresa Punzi, 2018. "Role of Bank Lending in Financing Green Projects: A Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Approach," Working Papers id:12938, eSocialSciences.
    7. Aleksandar Vasilev, 2022. "What is environmental sustainability? Optimal environmental policy as a targeting regime," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 42(3), pages 1527-1535.

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    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • C68 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computable General Equilibrium Models
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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