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creators_name: Sterner, T.
creators_name: Höglund-Isaksson, L.
creators_id: 1786
creators_orcid: 0000-0001-7514-3135
title: Refunded emission payments theory, distribution of costs, and Swedish experience of NOx abatement
ispublished: pub
divisions: prog_air
divisions: prog_mag
keywords: Environmental policy; Incentives; NO x; Output-based allocation; Refunded emission payments; Tax-subsidies; Two-part instruments
abstract: In this paper, we discuss the effect of refunding environmental charges. Taxes are often resisted by polluters because they imply both abatement and tax costs. When charges are refunded, the incentives for abatement are essentially the same as for a tax as long as there are many producers. The incidence and distribution of costs is however different. Lower net tax payments reduce resistance from the polluters and make refunded emissions payments politically easier to implement at a sufficiently high charge level to have significant abatement effects. We describe and examine the refunded emissions payment scheme as a policy instrument and compare it with taxes and permits with regard to allocative properties, distribution of costs, property rights, and, consequently, the politics of implementation. As an empirical example, the Swedish charge on nitrogen oxides is analyzed.
date: 2006-04
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier
id_number: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.03.008
creators_browse_id: 128
full_text_status: none
publication: Ecological Economics
volume: 57
number: 1
pagerange: 93-106
refereed: TRUE
issn: 09218009
coversheets_dirty: FALSE
fp7_project: no
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
citation:   Sterner, T. & Höglund-Isaksson, L. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/128.html> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7514-3135 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7514-3135>  (2006).  Refunded emission payments theory, distribution of costs, and Swedish experience of NOx abatement.   Ecological Economics 57 (1) 93-106. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.03.008 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.03.008>.