Arbeitspapier

Pricing the ecosystem and taxing ecosystem services: a general equilibrium approach

In an integrated dynamic general equilibrium model of the economy and the ecosystem humans and wildlife species compete for land and prey biomass. We introduce a competitive allocation mechanism in both submodels such that economic prices and ecosystem prices guide the allocation in the economy and in the ecosystem, respectively. We distinguish the scenarios of an open accessible habitat and a privately owned habitat. In both scenarios efficiency requires different corrective taxes/subsidies to internalize consumption services externalities. In the case of an open access habitat additional sources of inefficiency are the divergence of prices for biomass and land in both subsystems. Finally, we determine values of all components of the ecosystem in an efficient steady state with special emphasis on the role and the interplay of ecosystem and economic prices.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1991

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Renewable Resources and Conservation: Government Policy
Thema
Umwelt
Bodennutzung
Internalisierung externer Effekte
Erneuerbare Ressourcen
Umweltabgabe
Allgemeines Gleichgewicht
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Eichner, Thomas
Pethig, Rüdiger
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2007

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Eichner, Thomas
  • Pethig, Rüdiger
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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