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Peer Review Status: Unrefereed
Title: Can lobbying encourage abatement? Designing a new policy instrument
Author(s): Lange, Ian
Polborn, Sarah
Contact Email: i.a.lange@stir.ac.uk
Citation: Lange I & Polborn S (2012) Can lobbying encourage abatement? Designing a new policy instrument. Stirling Economics Discussion Paper 2012-03.
Keywords: Lobbying
climate policy
Lobbying
Environmental policy Great Britain
Carbon dioxide Environmental aspects Great Britain
JEL Code(s): D72: Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Q54: Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Q58: Environmental Economics: Government Policy
Issue Date: 31-Mar-2012
Date Deposited: 16-Mar-2012
Series/Report no.: Stirling Economics Discussion Paper 2012-03
Abstract: Taking a political economy perspective this paper proposes an alternative carbon abatement policy instrument with significant cant advantages over existing policy instruments. The key feature of the proposed carbon securities is that they entitle their owners to a fi xed proportion of ex ante unknown total emis-sions. The total level of carbon emissions is set by the political process after the carbon securities have been sold. A key benefit of the proposed carbon security is that it creates a group of stakeholders, whose interest is for a smaller level of emissions and which competes with industries that consume signifi cant amounts of carbon-based energy. The advantages over existing policy tools include an equilibrium carbon price closer to the level preferred by voters and a more predictable environmental policy in the presence of either climate or political uncertainty. (JEL: D72, Q54, Q58)
Type: Working Paper
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3722
Affiliation: Economics
Aarhus University

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