Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2004-04-27
Number: 04-047/3
Author-Name: Cees van Beers
Author-Workplace-Name: Dept of Economics, Delft University of Technology
Author-Name: Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh
Author-Email: jeroen.bergh@uab.cat
Author-Workplace-Name: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Autonomous University Barcelona
Author-Name: André de Moor
Author-Workplace-Name: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
Author-Name: Frans Oosterhuis
Author-Workplace-Name: Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Title: Determining the Environmental Effects of Indirect Subsidies
Abstract: Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that produce negative external effects to the natural environment. This article develops a transparent method to determine the environmental impact of indirect government subsidies and derive policy lessons. This method has been applied to several major subsidies in the Netherlands, namely in agriculture, energy, and transport. The results reveal large environmental effects, which need to be taken seriously by policy makers. The method enables policy makers to evaluate the environmental impacts of indirect government subsidies.
Classification-JEL: H2; Q2; Q3; Q5; Q28
Keywords: subsidies; environmental economics; environmental management; policy
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