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Policy Forum: Designing a Carbon Price Policy : Is the Australian Climate Plan Fair to Australia's Energy‐Intensive, Trade‐Exposed Industries?
Author(s) -
Clarke Harry,
Waschik Robert
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2011.00671.x
Subject(s) - climate policy , plan (archaeology) , energy (signal processing) , emissions trading , economics , business , climate change , geography , ecology , statistics , mathematics , archaeology , biology
The implications of Australia's unilateral carbon‐pricing plan for its energy‐intensive, trade‐exposed industries are analysed. While a priori arguments for protecting such industries make good theoretical sense, empirically significant levels of support for such protection centre on the non‐ferrous metal industry alone .