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Impactos distributivos de un impuesto al carbono en Colombia: vínculo entre modelos de microsimulaciones y equilibrio general

2018; Universidad de Antioquia; Issue: 89 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17533/udea.le.n89a06

2323-0622

Germán Romero, Andrés Camilo Álvarez-Espinosa, Silvia Liliana Calderón Díaz, Daniel Alejandro Ordónez Pachón,

Climate Change Policy and Economics

This paper examines the redistributive effects of taxing carbon dioxide emissions on household welfare through changes in prices of consumer goods. To this end, the results of a computable general equilibrium model are sequentially integrated with a household-level analysis based on microsimulation models (MSM). The analysis also allows for comparisons between the effects of using arithmetic and behavioral MSMs. Results show that a carbon tax has negative effects on population welfare, with higher-income households being the most affected and middle-class households the least. Finally, a number of policy recommendations for reducing emissions and including well-being criteria in mitigation measures are presented.