主题：Environmental rebounds/backfires: Macroeconomic implication for the promotion of environmentally-friendly products

主讲人：台湾东吴大学 王韦能助理教授

主持人：发展研究院 杨宗谕副教授

时间：2018年12月21日（星期五）上午10:30-12:00

地点：西南财经大学柳林校区经世楼B204

主办单位：发展研究院 科研处

主讲人简介：

王韦能，现任台湾东吴大学经济学系助理教授，台湾“中央研究院”经济研究所博后研究员。 专长领域为宏观经济、环境经济、公共经济、国际经济。已发表重要著作于Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Macroeconomics, International Journal of Economic Theory 等国际顶尖期刊。

主要内容：

A dynamic model is developed to explore the implications of the macroeconomic environmental rebound/backfire effect for environmentally-friendly product promotions on not only the demand side, but also the supply side. The macroeconomic environmental rebound/backfire is decomposed into three effects - the substitution, wealth, and sectoral reallocation effects. The results show that the steady-state pollution stock exhibits a U-shaped relationship with either demand-side or supply-side green promotions. The calibrated result indicates that in terms of pollution, the macroeconomic rebound effect for the economy as a whole appears to be substantial. More pronounced rebound effects are present when the elasticity of substitution between the clean- and dirty-good consumption is lower, the labor supply is more elastic, the environmental efficiency of clean goods is lower, and the technology level in the clean-good production is higher. We also show that a pollution rebound can result in a social welfare improvement, implying that the rebound effect somewhat improves economic efficiency, and so policies aimed at mitigating the rebound effect may be counterproductive from a welfare perspective.