Global Externalities, Local Policies, and Firm Selection

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ahlvik, Lassi; Liski, Matti
• 署名单位: University of Helsinki; Aalto University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvac001
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 1231-1275
• 关键词: strategic environmental-policy; carbon leakage; social cost; emissions; tax; location; MARKET

摘要

How to fight global problems with local tools? When only firms know what externality-producing activities can be relocated, policies shape the location distribution of firm types with different social values. We find that, because of this selection effect, the optimal local policies confront firms' mobility with elevated corrective externality prices, in contrast with the common remedies for the relocation risk. Our mechanism incentivizes also moving firms to limit the externality, and it influences strategically the distribution of moving firms that comply with policies elsewhere. The magnitude of these effects is illustrated by a quantification for the key sectors in the European Union emissions trading system.