"Does the Indexing of Government Transfers Make Carbon Pricing Progressive?" by Don Fullerton

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Does the Indexing of Government Transfers Make Carbon Pricing Progressive?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2012)

Don Fullerton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Garth Heutel, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University

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Abstract

We consider the role of transfer indexing in mitigating the regressivity of carbon pricing in an annual and lifetime income context.

Keywords

Climate Policy,
Incidence,
Transfers

Disciplines

Economics

Publication Date

2012

Citation Information

Don Fullerton, Garth Heutel and Gilbert E. Metcalf. "Does the Indexing of Government Transfers Make Carbon Pricing Progressive?" American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 94 Iss. 2 (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gilbert_metcalf/98/