On the Role of Green Taxes in Social Accounting

摘要: This paper addresses social accounting numerically in a dynamic generalequilibrium model. The main purposes are to study: (i) whether emissiontaxes based on static willingness pay information can be used improvethe welfare level, and; (ii) these taxes provide close enoughapproximations of the correct Pigouvian emission tax useful thecontext accounting. results indicate that, if environmentalquality is relatively linear with respect pollution, approximation ofthe will bring economy sociallyoptimal solution and, at same time, thevalue net investments environmental capital.