scholarly journals New Environmental Protection Taxes in China from the Perspective of Environmental Economics

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Qianyang Tu ◽  
Ying Wang

In recent decades, most countries have implemented environmental protection by formulating relevant environmental regulations to reduce environmental pollution and improve environmental quality. China enacted new Environmental Protection Tax Law in 2018 and abolished the old system of pollution discharge fees. This paper analyzes and predicts the effectiveness of these new environmental tax policies within the framework of a macroeconometric dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model. Bayesian estimation is applied to estimate dynamic parameters based on China’s macroeconomic data from 1978 to 2018. We find that the implementation of China’s new environmental tax will lead to a significant increase in environmental quality through a reduction in the amount of pollution. However, the study reveals that new environmental taxes may have certain negative influences on economic growth. Consumption, output, wages, and capital could fall by 1.26%, 0.34%, 1.16%, and 1.12%, respectively, which may slow the pace of China’s development.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Tingliu Xu ◽  
Yingjie Xiao ◽  
Chatchai Khiewngamdee ◽  
Qin Lin

In the past few years, the marine ecosystem has been a cheap resource in developing countries in the process of pursuing short-term vested interests. Therefore, high economic development of the developing countries is at a huge environmental cost. Nowadays, environmental protection is becoming a global concern. In this background, the government of the developing countries begins to formulate reasonable marine economic and environmental policies to find a balance between rapid economic development and marine environmental protection. In this contribution, a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGE) is constructed with the environmental constraints, and Bayesian estimation is used to calibrate the main parameters. Next, the model is employed to analyze the effects of government and consumer environmental preferences on macroeconomic variables, environmental quality, and consumer and government utility. Results show that the government’s preference for environmental quality is positively related to port environmental quality and negatively related to output, capital stock, and consumption. An enhancement of the environmental quality preference of the target audience can realize balanced development of economic growth and port environmental quality. The findings are conducive to coordinating the relationship between economic development and environmental protection and achieving sustainable development of the port.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakan Akar

Bu çalışmada, daha müreffeh bir hayat yaşama gayesiyle gerçekleştirilen sınırsız üretim ve tüketim faaliyetlerinin, çevre tahribatı yoluyla tam aksi yönde etki yapıp yapmadığı incelenmeye çalışılmıştır. Çalışmanın temel amacı, üretim ve tüketim faaliyetlerinin çevreye zarar vermesi durumunda, çevresel vergilerin bu tahribatı azaltmada etkili bir çözüm olup olamayacağı hakkında çıkarımda bulunmaktır. Çalışmanın problemi genelde çevresel bozulma, özelde de emisyondur. Öncelikle çevre ekonomisi başlığı altında çevre ile ekonomi arasındaki ilişki ortaya konulmaya çalışılmış, sonrasında analizimize hazırlık olması mahiyetinde emisyon, çevresel vergiler, GSYİH, kişi başına düşen milli gelir hakkında bilgi verilmiştir. İktisadi büyüme süreciyle çevresel bozulma arasındaki etkileşimi açıklarken Çevresel Kuznets Eğrisi (ÇKE) ve Kirlilik Sığınağı Hipotezi veya Kirlilik Cenneti’nden faydalanılmıştır. Türkiye’nin de ÇKE ile uyumlu olduğu ve milli geliri reel olarak 4090 dolardan sonra çevreye verilen zararların azalacağı tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca milli gelir hesaplamalarında da çevresel maliyetlerin hesaba katılması zaruretine değinilmiştir. Çevresel bozulmayla çevre vergileri arasındaki ilişki de çevresel vergi gelirlerinin toplam vergi gelirlerine oranlanarak ortaya konmaya çalışılmıştır. Nitel analizlerimize temel teşkil edecek veriler Avrupa Çevre Ajansı, Avrupa Komisyonu ve Dünya Bankası’nın internet sitelerinden elde edilmiş, AB ve OECD ülkelerinin iktisadi büyüme, çevresel vergi ve emisyon hacimlerine ilişkin veriler arasındaki ilişki gözlemlenmeye çalışılmıştır. Buna göre; iktisadi büyüme, farklı gelişmişlik düzeylerine göre ülkeden ülkeye farklı çevre tahribatı sonuçları vermektedir. Çevresel vergilerin etkin bir şekilde vergi sistemlerinde bulunan ülkelerde ise, emisyon hacimlerinin daha az olması beklenmektedir. The Effect of Economic Growth and Environmental Taxes On Quantity of Emissions This study has been made to understand whether endless production and consumption activities which aim to achieve a wealthier life, cause environmental destruction. The study aims to determine, if the production and consumption activities have a negative effect on environment, whether environmental taxes would have a positive effect on environment or not. In general, the problem of this essay is environmental destruction, and in particular emissions. Initially, beneath the headline of environmental economics an effort to reveal relationship between environment and economics has been made, later on some information about the emission, environmental taxes, gross domestic product and per capita income has been given as a basis to our analysis. While explaining the interaction between economic growing process and environmental destruction; Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and Pollution Heaven Hypothesis have been benefited. It is found out that Turkey is coherent with EKC and environmental destruction is in decrease from 4090 dollars of Gross Domestic Product. In addition, environmental costs have to been taken into account in calculation of GDP. The link between environmental destruction and environmental taxes has been exposed via proportion of the environmental tax in total tax revenue. Our analysis has been based on data gathered from European Environmental Agency, European Commission and The World Bank’s web sites. In this way, EU countries have been compared with OECD countries in terms of economic growth, environmental tax and quantity emission. As a result, economic growth cause varied environmental destruction in different level of development and in between countries. Less quantity of emission is expected in some countries which are keen to use effectively environmental taxes in their tax systems.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. e0242412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farhan Bashir ◽  
Benjiang MA ◽  
Muhammad Shahbaz ◽  
Zhilun Jiao

This study evaluates the impacts of renewable energy, environmental taxes, environmental technology, and financial development on carbon emissions in OECD economies from 1995 to 2015 by employing system-GMM and quantile regression approaches. Our empirical analysis indicates that environmental tax negatively affects carbon emissions; economic growth impedes environmental quality by increasing carbon emissions. Further, renewable energy consumption, environmental technology, and financial development improve environmental quality by decreasing carbon emissions. We suggest that changes in policymaking to promote sustainable economic growth and environmental quality should be prevent environmental degradation, but also inspire greater investments in new technologies and energy expertise in the renewables industry.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3635
Author(s):  
David Alaminos ◽  
Ana León-Gómez ◽  
José Ramón Sánchez-Serrano

This paper aims to provide a better basis for understanding the transmission connection between tourism development and sustainable economic growth in the empirical scenario of International countries. In this way, we have applied the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model in different countries in order to check the power of generalization of this framework to study the tourism development. Also, we extend this model to obtain the long-term effects of tourism development with confidence intervals. The influence of tourism development on sustainable economic growth is proved by our results and show the indirect consequences between tourist activity and other industries produced through the external effects of investment and human capital and public sector. Our study confirms that the DSGE technique can be a generalized model for the analysis of tourism development and, especially, can improve previous precision results with the DSGE-VAR model, where vector autoregression (VAR) is introduced in the DSGE model. The simulation results reveal even more than when the productivity of the economy in general enhances, as the current tourist demand increases in greater proportion than more than the national tourism demand. For its part, the consumption of domestic tourism rises more than the consumption of inbound tourism if the productivity of the tourism production enhances, but non-tourism prices decrease at a slower rate and tourism investment needs a longer time to recover to what is established.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Sun ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Tao Zhang

PurposeGiven the recent rapid economic development, the processes of industrialization and urbanization are accelerating. At the same time, the contradiction between environmental quality and economic development has become increasingly prominent and is likely to restrict the normal pace of China’s economic development and environmental protection. As such, the purpose of this paper is to incorporate the urbanization factor into an analytic framework to discuss the relationship among urbanization, economic development, and environmental pollution.Design/methodology/approachA panel data of 31 Chinese provinces from 2004 to 2015 is selected for this research. A spatial correlation test is first conducted on the environmental pollution status, then the spatial Durbin model is used to carry out spatial econometric testing of the relationship among the above three factors.FindingsInterprovincial environmental pollution in China has significant positive spatial correlation, environmental pollution discharge in most provinces is significantly stable, discharge of environmental pollutants is transitioning from coastal to inland provinces, and urbanization and economic growth can both aggravate environmental pollution, but economic growth can relieve environmental pollution in neighboring provinces.Originality/valueThe relationship between economic growth, urbanization, and environmental quality has always been an important issue for sustainable development. As such, China’s urbanization leads to economic development, while rapid economic growth and environmental pollution are coordinated. This paper focuses on the specific relationship between them. To this end, local governments make concerted efforts to formulate sound environmental regulation policies based on local environmental conditions, where economic development is an effective means of alleviating the contradictory relationship between economic development and environmental protection.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 503-522
Author(s):  
Goranka Knežević ◽  
Vladan Pavlović

In this research, we emphasize the issues of collecting environmental taxes and spending for environmental protection at the EU 28 plus countries as a benchmark and Serbia. We find no correlation between environmental taxes in EU and expenses incurred for the environment, while at the same time there is a positive, statistically significant relationship between the two variables in Serbia. The observed period covers 2009-2017. This means that government taxes and budget are the main sources of financing green projects in Serbia, therefore, showing lower environmental awareness of companies and citizens.


2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1652-1667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsun Chu ◽  
Ching-chong Lai ◽  
Chih-hsing Liao

In this paper we investigate the growth effect of environmental taxes when time preference is endogenously determined by environmental quality. We find that if people become more patient because of a cleaner environment, raising the environmental tax may reduce pollution and stimulate growth. Moreover, the Pigouvian principle may be inefficient in the presence of endogenous time preference.


2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 472-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Antony ◽  
Alfred Maußner

This note extends the findings of Benhabib and Rusticchini [Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 18, 807–813 (1994)], who provide a class of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models whose solution is characterized by a constant savings rate. We show that this class of models may be interpreted as a standard–representative agent DSGE model with costly adjustment of capital.


2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (04) ◽  
pp. 1059-1083
Author(s):  
ZHONGFA MA ◽  
JIANFU ZHAO ◽  
JIAHUI NI

Environmental pollution has produced adverse impacts on sustainable development in China, and the inappropriate tax legal regime may be one of the important causes. There are only three separate laws concerning three types of taxes, and most of the other taxes are collected by regulations or rules. China has not adopted particular tax laws concerning environmental protection by December 25th, 2016, and has not enforced any special environmental tax law, and polluters are primarily charged for their pollution activities as a way of assuming their legal liabilities, which has significant shortcomings. Under the situations of addressing climate change and constraining and curing environmental pollution for sustainable development, a comprehensive system of green tax laws shall be established and perfected by making and enforcing Environmental Protection Tax Law and improving the existing tax laws involved in environmental protection.


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