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Optimal policies in a small open economy with an environmental externality and shallow foreign exchange markets

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  • Alessandro Moro

    (Bank of Italy, International Relations and Economics Directorate)

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This paper develops a small open economy model with a brown and green industry. Brown firms generate an environmental externality that reduces the utility of domestic households. Firms in both sectors rely on domestic and foreign capital to finance their production. Foreign exchange markets are assumed to be shallow and firms pay a higher return to borrow capital with respect to the exogenous foreign interest rate. This inefficiency contributes to a further decline in welfare. In this framework, the first-best allocation is attained through a tax on the output produced by the polluting sector combined with differentiated capital controls, with a higher tax rate applied to foreign capital inflows in the brown sector and a lower tax rate applied to foreign inflows in green firms. Looking at single policy tools, such differentiated capital controls are preferable to a tax on brown production for moderate values of the environmental externality.

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  • Alessandro Moro, 2025. "Optimal policies in a small open economy with an environmental externality and shallow foreign exchange markets," Portuguese Economic Journal, Springer;Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao, vol. 24(1), pages 35-50, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:portec:v:24:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1007_s10258-024-00253-w
    DOI: 10.1007/s10258-024-00253-w
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    Keywords

    Small open economy; Environmental externality; Climate policy; International capital flows; Capital controls;
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    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F32 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
    • F50 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - General
    • F64 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Environment
    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General

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