| 外文摘要 | Quantitative policy analysis has become an important tool in environmental policy decision makings in many developed countries. In order to reduce the risk and improve the efficiency of policy implementation, Chinese government has started to stimulate the carrying out of this work in policy making processes. For resolving serious environmental problems generated from energy use in China, more policy instruments such as energy- environment taxes and voluntary agreements should be adopted. The main purpose of this dissertation is to apply a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to simulate the effects of the application of these policies, and at the same time, to provide evidences of the feasibility of their implementation in China. In this dissertation, an atemporal standard 9-sector CGE model was developed according to the specific circumstances of the environmental policies to be analyzed. Based on the available data of China, a nested 2-Class CES production function of (K/L)/E type was selected to serve the core function form of the “supply part” in the CGE model, by adopting an econometric approach. Also on the basis of Chinese data, the related parameters in the model were estimated. These works make the model more appropriate for simulating the effects of environmental policies in China. After extended by incorporating environmental effect equations, the CGE model was applied to simulate the effects of levying energy-environment taxes on energy inputs in industrial sectors, practicing voluntary agreements in selected industrial sectors, as well as the mixed use of the two policy instruments. Comparing the simulating results of the three policy scenarios leads to a conclusion like this: if energy-environment taxation and voluntary agreements are implemented at the same time in a certain proper way in China, more desirable effects could be achieved in the respects of improving the energy efficiency, optimizing the energy consumption structure, as well as reducing SO2 and CO2 emissions. At the same time, the economic costs of policy implementation could also be minimized comparatively. In view of the strong advantages of voluntary agreements in resolving environmental problems generated from energy use,which has been proved from the experiences of some foreign countries, Chinese government is making experimental implementations of the policy in some areas. As the first attempt to apply a CGE model in quantifying the effects of incomplete economic environment policy instruments, such as voluntary agreements, in our country, the studies of this dissertation provide some evidences for the feasibility of implementing the policy in China, which could provide certain reference value to the environmental policy decision. |