Replication data for: The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Christoph Böhringer; Jared C. Carbone; Thomas F. Rutherford

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Project Citation:

Böhringer, Christoph, Carbone, Jared C., and Rutherford, Thomas F. Replication data for: The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114588V1

Project Description

Summary: We ask whether the threat of carbon tariffs might lower the cost of reductions in world carbon emissions by inducing unregulated regions to adopt emission controls. We use a numerical model to generate payoffs of a game in which a coalition regulates emissions and chooses whether to employ carbon tariffs against unregulated regions. Unregulated regions respond by abating, retaliating, or ignoring the tariffs. In the Nash equilibrium, the use of tariffs is a credible and effective threat. It induces cooperation from noncoalition regions that lowers the cost of global abatement substantially relative to the case where the coalition acts alone. (JEL D58, F13, F18, H23, Q54, Q58)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D58 Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
      F13 Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
      F18 Trade and Environment
      H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
      Q54 Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
      Q58 Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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