Carbon Policy in a High-Growth Economy: The case of China

Lucas Bretschger and Lin Zhang

No 143, OxCarre Working Papers from Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: There is widespread concern that an international agreement on stringent climate policies will not be reached because it would imply too high costs for fast growing economies like China. To quantify these costs we develop a general equilibrium model with fully endogenous growth. The framework includes disaggregated industrial and energy sectors, endogenous innovation, and sector-speci c investments. We find that the implementation of Chinese government carbon policies until 2020 causes a welfare reduction of 0.3 percent. For the long run up to 2050 we show that welfare costs of internationally coordinated emission reduction targets lie between 3 and 8 percent. Assuming faster energy technology development, stronger induced innovation, and rising energy prices in the reference case reduces welfare losses signi cantly. We argue that increased urbanization raises the costs of carbon policies due to altered consumption patterns.

Keywords: Carbon policy; China; Endogenous growth; Induced innovation; Urbanization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 O41 O53 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07-14
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