Research Article

[Retracted] New Environmental Protection Taxes in China from the Perspective of Environmental Economics

Table 1

Summary of basic parameter values.

NoParameterDescriptionValue

1ΔDepression rate0.025
2θUtility coefficient of labor supply0.5
3ϑElasticity of labor supply2.0
4αC-D parameter of capital0.33
5μPollutants discharge coefficient0.601
6ϕPollutant decay0.992
7γCoefficient of emission reduction0.345
8νCoefficient of government consumption expenditure0.14
9βDiscount factor0.95
10τEnvironmental tax rate0.013

1: For the capital depreciation rate, we used 0.025 with reference to previous literature: Heutel [6] 0.025, Annicchiarico and Di Dio [9] 0.025, and Xiao et al. [11], 0.025. 2: The utility coefficient of labor supply refers to Lu et al. [18] 0.5. 3: The elasticity of labor supply refers to Lintunen and Vilmi [24] 2.0, and Pop [25] 2.0. 4: The C-D parameter of capital refers to Fischer and Springborn [7] 0.33, and Yongsung and Sun-Bin [26] 0.36. 5: The pollutants discharge coefficient refers to Lu et al. [18] 0.601, Xu et al. [3] 0.601, and Xiao et al. [11] 0.6. 6: Pollutant decay refers to Heutel [6] 0.9979, Annicchiarico and Di Dio [9] 0.9979, and Lu et al. [18] 0.992. 7: The coefficient of emission reduction refers to Lu et al. [18] 0.345. 8: The coefficient of government consumption expenditure refers to Lu et al. [18] 0.14.