Coordinating Climate and Trade Policies : Pareto Efficiency and the Role of Border Tax Adjustments /

This paper explores the role of trade instruments in globally efficient climate policies, focusing on the central issue of whether some form of border tax adjustment (BTA) is warranted when carbon prices differ internationally. It shows that tariff policy has a role in easing cross-country distribut...

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Main Author: Keen, Michael
Other Authors: Kotsogiannis, Christos
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/289
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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