Analysis of energy related CO2 emissions in Pakistan

This study investigates the distributional implications of the revenue-neutral carbon tax policy in British Columbia. We use a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Canadian economy and disaggregate households into deciles by annual income using data from a large household expenditure survey. Using the model, we find that the existing BC carbon tax is highly progressive even prior to consideration of the revenue recycling scheme, such that the negative impact of the carbon tax on households with below-median income are smaller than that on households with above-median income. We show that our finding is a result of welfare effects of a carbon tax being determined primarily by the source of a households' income rather than by the destination of its expenditures. Finally, we show that the existing revenue recycling scheme is also progressive. Overall, the tax appears to be highly progressive.

Carbon Tax and Revenue Recycling: Impacts on Households in British Columbia

Distributional effects of carbon taxation

Carbon Tax and Revenue Recycling: Impacts on Households in British Columbia.

Subsidy scheme or price discount scheme? Mass adoption of electric vehicles under different market structures

Can carbon taxes be progressive

Technology, technology, technology: An integrated assessment of deep decarbonization pathways for the Canadian oil sands

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Environmental taxes and international spillovers: The case of a small open economy

Regional Trade Agreements, Emissions Bubbles, and Carbon Tariff Harmonization

This paper assesses the distributional impacts of carbon taxes on households by considering both the demand and the supply channels, through which an environmental policy might have an incidence on inequality. Using equivalent income as households' welfare metric and concentration indices as decomposition methods of showing inequality by components, our simulation results suggest that income losses through factor prices concentrate towards rich people as carbon prices increase, implying that the incidence of pollution tax on the source-side of income is progressive. Conversely, the incidence of pollution tax on the use-side (i.e., through commodity price changes) of income is regressive. However, due to the stronger incidence from factor prices, the combined e®ects of factor and commodity prices tend to reduce inequality following an increase in a carbon tax.

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Muhammad Shahid Siddiqui

Papers

Can carbon taxes be progressive

Technology, technology, technology: An integrated assessment of deep decarbonization pathways for the Canadian oil sands

Environmental taxes and international spillovers: The case of a small open economy

Regional Trade Agreements, Emissions Bubbles, and Carbon Tariff Harmonization

Carbon Taxes and Inequality