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URL http://hdl.handle.net/10419/109648
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Titel (primär) A theory of optimal green defaults
Autor Meran, G.; Schwarze, R.
Quelle UFZ Discussion Papers
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
Department OEKON
Band/Volume 6/2015
Seite bis 17
Sprache englisch
Abstract This paper develops an analytical framework for studying the Baumol-Oates efficiency of traditional single instrument abatementpolicies vis-à-vis green defaults in the face of price inertia and deliberate defaultingby subpopulations. In this special case ofbehavioural heterogeneity, command and control approaches can outperform price-based instruments while pure tax/subsidy schemes need tobe adjusted in order to achievepolitically desired levels of abatement. We also prove that choice-preserving nudges are superior to any single-instrument policy in this case. An average marginal abatement cost rule is developed to optimise the green defaults and traditional policies of standards and prices under different degrees of market rigidity.
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Meran, G., Schwarze, R. (2015):
A theory of optimal green defaults
UFZ Discussion Papers 6/2015
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 17 pp.