Unilateral climate policies and green paradoxes: Extraction costs matter
Unilateral climate policies and green paradoxes: Extraction costs matter / Gilbert Kollenbach. Universität Siegen, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftsrecht, February 2014, 35 p. (Discussion Papers in Economics n° 164-14)
http://ideas.repec.org/p/sie/siegen/164-14.html
Author’s abstract :
Under which conditions unilateral tightening of climate policy causes a weak or strong green paradox or even decreases social welfare has recently been studied by Hoel (2011). Hoel assumes that the costs of extracting fossil fuel are linear in output. We extend his model by allowing for progressively increasing and stock dependent extraction costs. Increasing unit costs imply the simultaneous utilization of fossil fuel and a clean backstop. This has a signicant eect on the results, as the utilization of backstop by the country which tightens its climate policy always prevents a weak green paradox. As a consequence, the eect of a tighter climate policy on social welfare can be reversed. Due to the stock dependence of extraction costs the amount of fossil fuel left in situ may be increased by a tighter climate policy. This implies that social welfare may increase, even if a weak green paradox occurs.
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Danièle Revel (11 mars 2014). Unilateral climate policies and green paradoxes: Extraction costs matter. Veille énergie climat. Consulté le 17 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/oax2