Revenue‐Neutral Environmental Tariff Reform, Growth, and Welfare

B-Tier
Journal: Review of International Economics
Year: 2005
Volume: 13
Issue: 5
Pages: 985-996

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the growth and welfare effects of revenue‐neutral tariff reform in a small open endogenous growth model with environmental externalities. As is the case in countries that depend primarily on imported energy, the employment of a foreign intermediate good causes negative environmental externalities in production. This paper shows that substituting a tariff on the foreign intermediate good for a tariff on the foreign consumption good in a revenue‐neutral way raises the growth rate and the welfare, if the environmental externality is sufficiently strong and if the elasticity of substitution between inputs lies within a certain range.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:bla:reviec:v:13:y:2005:i:5:p:985-996
Journal Field
International
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-26