Título: Assessing the economic feasibility of a carbon tax on energy inputs in Ontario's pulp and paper industry : an econometric analysis
Autores: He, Miaofen, 1976-
Fecha: 2001
Publicador: McGill University - MCGILL
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Tipo: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Tema: Carbon taxes -- Ontario.
Wood-pulp industry -- Energy consumption -- Ontario.
Paper industry -- Energy consumption -- Ontario.
Descripción: Knowledge of price responsiveness of energy is important for designing effective price-based controls to curb the GHG emissions in Canada. The translog and logit models are developed in this study to analyze the demand for four types of energy inputs: coal, electricity, natural gas and refined petroleum products in Ontario's pulp and paper industry. The results suggest that the industry is inelastic to price change of energy consumed. Tests indicate that the translog model behaves slightly better than the logit model. The translog model was then applied to study the feasibility of imposing a carbon tax on energy inputs on Ontario's pulp and paper industry, which indicated that this sector does not seem to response to changes in energy inputs prices. Therefore, a carbon tax does not seem to be a good policy option for decreasing greenhouse gas emissions in this sector.
Idioma: en