scholarly journals A NOTE ON ENVIRONMENT-DEPENDENT TIME PREFERENCES

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1652-1667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsun Chu ◽  
Ching-chong Lai ◽  
Chih-hsing Liao
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Time Preference ◽  
Time Preferences ◽  
Growth Effect ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Environmental Tax ◽  
Endogenous Time Preference

In this paper we investigate the growth effect of environmental taxes when time preference is endogenously determined by environmental quality. We find that if people become more patient because of a cleaner environment, raising the environmental tax may reduce pollution and stimulate growth. Moreover, the Pigouvian principle may be inefficient in the presence of endogenous time preference.

scholarly journals New Environmental Protection Taxes in China from the Perspective of Environmental Economics

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Qianyang Tu ◽  
Ying Wang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Environmental Tax ◽  
Dynamic Parameters ◽  
Dynamic Stochastic

In recent decades, most countries have implemented environmental protection by formulating relevant environmental regulations to reduce environmental pollution and improve environmental quality. China enacted new Environmental Protection Tax Law in 2018 and abolished the old system of pollution discharge fees. This paper analyzes and predicts the effectiveness of these new environmental tax policies within the framework of a macroeconometric dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model. Bayesian estimation is applied to estimate dynamic parameters based on China’s macroeconomic data from 1978 to 2018. We find that the implementation of China’s new environmental tax will lead to a significant increase in environmental quality through a reduction in the amount of pollution. However, the study reveals that new environmental taxes may have certain negative influences on economic growth. Consumption, output, wages, and capital could fall by 1.26%, 0.34%, 1.16%, and 1.12%, respectively, which may slow the pace of China’s development.

scholarly journals The nexus between environmental tax and carbon emissions with the roles of environmental technology and financial development

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. e0242412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farhan Bashir ◽  
Benjiang MA ◽  
Muhammad Shahbaz ◽  
Zhilun Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Environmental Tax ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Technology

This study evaluates the impacts of renewable energy, environmental taxes, environmental technology, and financial development on carbon emissions in OECD economies from 1995 to 2015 by employing system-GMM and quantile regression approaches. Our empirical analysis indicates that environmental tax negatively affects carbon emissions; economic growth impedes environmental quality by increasing carbon emissions. Further, renewable energy consumption, environmental technology, and financial development improve environmental quality by decreasing carbon emissions. We suggest that changes in policymaking to promote sustainable economic growth and environmental quality should be prevent environmental degradation, but also inspire greater investments in new technologies and energy expertise in the renewables industry.

scholarly journals Environmental Taxes and Innovation in Chinese Textile Enterprises: Influence of Mediating Effects and Heterogeneous Factors

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4561
Author(s):  
Yabin Yu ◽  
Hua Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Capital Investment ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Environmental Tax ◽  
Capital Input ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Enterprise Innovation ◽  
Innovation Capital

Climate change and environmental conditions call for more attention to be paid to eco-friendly economic behavior. As a market-oriented environmental regulation, environmental tax can stimulate and guide enterprises’ environmental innovation in a neutral way. However, what elements connect the environmental tax and enterprise innovation activity together? Are all the enterprises’ innovation activities affected by the environmental tax in the same way? To answer the questions, the study uses the data of Chinese textile listed companies between 2004 and 2018 to explore the intermediary role of manpower and capital investment in the innovation chain and further analyze the influence of the heterogeneous factors such as property right, segmented industry, and region. The results show that the environmental tax can effectively promote the innovation capital input of Chinese textile enterprises, and the innovation manpower input plays a partial mediation role. At the same time, environmental tax can effectively promote the innovation performance output of Chinese textile enterprises, and innovation capital input plays a complete mediation role. In addition, heterogeneous factors such as property right, segmented industry and region will affect the relation of environmental tax to innovation input and output quality and greenness to varying degrees. The study makes a profound analysis of the relation of environmental tax on Chinese textile enterprises innovation by using the microdata at the enterprise level, providing a more targeted reference for making policies in the future.

Impact of Environmental Tax on Comparative Advantage of Food and Food Products: A Study of G20 Countries in Light of Environmentally Sensitive Goods

2021 ◽  
pp. 001946622110352
Author(s):  
Alisha Mahajan ◽  
Kakali Majumdar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Environmental Tax ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Autoregressive Distributed Lag ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive ◽  
The Relationship

Many countries are under constant fear that environmental policies might negatively influence the international competitiveness of polluting industries. In this study, we aim to evaluate the relationship and impact of the environmental tax on comparative advantage of trade in food and food products industry, considered to be one of the highly environmentally sensitive industries. This study also investigates, whether this relationship differs among countries covered in G20, with the help of correlation analysis. We select panel autoregressive distributed lag approach for this study as it can analyse long-run as well as short-run association even when the variables are stationary at different orders of integration. Using panel data from G20 countries over the period of 21 years that is from 1994 to 2015, it is concluded that when we allow environmental taxes to interact with the revealed comparative advantage (RCA) of G20 nations, the overall impact of the environmental tax on the RCA is negative in the long period. It is therefore suggested that countries should follow Porter hypothesis to stimulate innovations resulting from strict environmental regulations that affect the environment in least possible manner. JEL Codes: C01, C23, C33, F18, O57, Q5

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