Six Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy
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Six distributional effects of environmental policy.
While prior literature has identified various effects of environmental policy, this note uses the example of a proposed carbon permit system to illustrate and discuss six different types of distributional effects: (1) higher prices of carbon-intensive products, (2) changes in relative returns to factors like labor, capital, and resources, (3) allocation of scarcity rents from a restricted numbe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Risk Analysis
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0272-4332
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01628.x