1. Regional Trade Agreements, Emissions Bubbles, and Carbon Tariff Harmonization.
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Dissou, Yazid and Siddiqui, Muhammad Shahid
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GREENHOUSE gas mitigation ,EMISSIONS (Air pollution) ,CARBON & the environment ,TARIFF - Abstract
In the context of sub-global participation in greenhouse gas mitigation efforts, this paper investigates the effectiveness of a Canada-U.S. emissions bubble under their existing regional trade agreement. It also explores the potential economic impact of carbon tariff harmonization through the implementation of a common Canada-U.S. external border tariff adjustment as a mean to address competitiveness issues. Using a multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model the paper finds that the creation of an emission bubble between the two countries could improve efficiency. The findings also suggest that a carbon tariff harmonization policy could give rise to distributional issues among Annex I regions and could fail to mitigate the negative competitiveness impacts of carbon abatement policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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