Use less, pay more: Can climate policy address the unfortunate event for being poor?
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2012-08
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The paper develops a two-region endogenous growth model with climate change affecting the countries capital stocks negatively. We compare two different policies aimed at supporting less developed countries: climate mitigation by rich countries, which diminishes the increase in stock pollution and hence capital depreciation, and income transfers in the tradition of development aid. Under a mild set of assumptions we fi nd that active climate policies are more efficient for rich economies and also, remarkably, better for poor countries than additonial development aid. The main reason is the difference between the two policies with respect to their effects on economic growth. The results are robust with respect to possible model extensions.
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Economics Working Paper Series
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12/166 (166)
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CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Climate policy; Development aid; Endogenous growth; Stock pollution
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03635 - Bretschger, Lucas (emeritus) / Bretschger, Lucas (emeritus)
02045 - Dep. Geistes-, Sozial- u. Staatswiss. / Dep. of Humanities, Social and Pol.Sc.