TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental responsibility and policy in a two-country dynamic input-output model
AU - Hoekstra, Rutger
AU - Janssen, Marcus
N1 - Funding Information:
Jeroen van den Bergh, two anonymous reviewers and Erik Dietzenbacher for their comments and literature suggestions. This research was done in the context of the research programme ‘Materials Use and Spatial Scales in Industrial Metabolism’ (MUSSIM), funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
PY - 2006/3
Y1 - 2006/3
N2 - Increased spatial dependency of economic activities, as well as spatial differentiation of production and consumption, has implications for environmental policy. One of the issues that has gained importance is the responsibility for the emissions from products that cross national boundaries during the environmental policy's lifetime. This paper discusses the different ethical views of environmental responsibility. Furthermore, the policy measures that are associated with the different viewpoints are analyzed in a novel dynamic two-country two-sector dynamic input - output model. A numerical example is modeled to assess taxing schemes that are based on these ethical viewpoints. The results show that a tax on the 'embodied' environmental pressure, which is generally viewed as ethically preferable, is less effective that the current policy of taxing consumers of products. Our discussion however shows that these results are very dependent on the model structure and initial parameters that are used. Nevertheless, the model illustrates that policies that are based on ethically superior standpoints may have detrimental distortionary effects in the dynamic setting.
AB - Increased spatial dependency of economic activities, as well as spatial differentiation of production and consumption, has implications for environmental policy. One of the issues that has gained importance is the responsibility for the emissions from products that cross national boundaries during the environmental policy's lifetime. This paper discusses the different ethical views of environmental responsibility. Furthermore, the policy measures that are associated with the different viewpoints are analyzed in a novel dynamic two-country two-sector dynamic input - output model. A numerical example is modeled to assess taxing schemes that are based on these ethical viewpoints. The results show that a tax on the 'embodied' environmental pressure, which is generally viewed as ethically preferable, is less effective that the current policy of taxing consumers of products. Our discussion however shows that these results are very dependent on the model structure and initial parameters that are used. Nevertheless, the model illustrates that policies that are based on ethically superior standpoints may have detrimental distortionary effects in the dynamic setting.
KW - Dynamic input-output model
KW - Environmental responsibility
KW - International trade
KW - Technological change
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U2 - 10.1080/09535310500440894
DO - 10.1080/09535310500440894
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33645125877
VL - 18
SP - 61
EP - 84
JO - Economic Systems Research
JF - Economic Systems Research
SN - 0953-5314
IS - 1
ER -