Säll, Sarah and Gren, Ing-Marie
(2012).
Green consumption taxes on meat in Sweden.
Uppsala:
(NL, NJ) > Dept. of Economics, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet.
Working paper series / Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Economics
; 2012:10
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Abstract
This paper designs and evaluates the environmental impacts of a tax on meat consumption in Sweden which reflects environmental damage at the margin. Three meat products are included, cattle, chicken and pork, and three pollutants generating environmental damages; green house gases, nitrogen, and phosphorus. The calculated unit taxes on meat products correspond to 28%, 26%, and 40% of the price per kg of beef, pork, and poultry in 2009. Consumer responses to the taxes are calculated by means of econometric estimates of a linear demand system of the meat products. The results indicate relatively high own price and income elasticities of the meat products and complementarity in consumption. A simultaneous introduction of taxes on all three meat products can decrease emission of GHG, nitrogen, phosphorus and ammonia by at least 27%. If only one meat product can be taxed, a tax on pork meat gives the largest reductions in emission of all pollutants, which to a large extent is explained by the high complementarity in consumption.
Authors/Creators: | Säll, Sarah and Gren, Ing-Marie |
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Title: | Green consumption taxes on meat in Sweden |
Series Name/Journal: | Working paper series / Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Economics |
Year of publishing : | 6 December 2012 |
Number: | 2012:10 |
Number of Pages: | 31 |
Place of Publication: | Uppsala |
Publisher: | Dept. of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
ISSN: | 1401-4068 |
Language: | English |
Publication Type: | Report |
Full Text Status: | Public |
Agris subject categories.: | P Natural resources > P01 Nature conservation and land resources X Agricola extesions > X70 Economics and management |
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 502 Economics and Business > Economics |
Keywords: | environmental meat tax, environmental impacts, Sweden |
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-782 |
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-782 |
ID Code: | 9294 |
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Economics |
Deposited By: | Ing-Marie Gren |
Deposited On: | 14 Dec 2012 09:15 |
Metadata Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2014 10:53 |
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