Cookies?
Library Header Image
LSE Research Online LSE Library Services

Credible carbon policy

Helm, Dieter, Hepburn, Cameron and Mash, Richard (2003) Credible carbon policy. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 19 (3). pp. 438-450. ISSN 0266-903X

Full text not available from this repository.
Identification Number: 10.1093/oxrep/19.3.438

Abstract

The paper sets out the credibility problem in carbon policy, provides a number of examples of non-credibility in recent energy policy, and identifies the costs of failing to address it. The time inconsistency of carbon policy—arising because of multiple objectives, the irreversibility of energy investments, and the scope for ex-post reneging on ex-ante commitments to set policy instruments, such as carbon taxes or emission permits, at appropriate levels—is set in a conceptual framework. Analogies with monetary policy are drawn, and a solution to the time-inconsistency problem is proposed through the establishment of an energy/carbon agency.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/
Additional Information: © 2003 Oxford University Press and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited
Divisions: Grantham Research Institute
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Date Deposited: 01 Mar 2011 16:45
Last Modified: 22 Feb 2024 06:06
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/32971

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item