Water price and water reallocation in Andalusia. A computable general equilibrium approach

Esther Velázquez (), Manuel Alejandro Cardenete and Geoffrey Hewings
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Esther Velázquez: Department of Economics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide

No 07.04, Working Papers from Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics

Abstract: The objective of this work is to analyze the effects that an increase in the price of the water delivered to the agriculture sector to promote the conservation of this resource would have on the efficiency of the consumption of water and the possible reallocation of water to the remaining productive sectors. The analysis is motivated by the fact that the agriculture consumes a disproportionately large amount of water at very low prices. The methodology that will be used to explore the implications on the economy will be a computable general equilibrium model (CGE), previously designed for an analysis of the direct taxes of the Andalusian economy (Cardenete and Sancho, 2003), but now enhanced and extended to include emissions of pollutants and the introduction of environmental taxes (André, Cardenete and Velázquez, 2005). This model has been further modified to introduce the variations in the water price that we will try to analyze by means of a tariff applied on the production structure. The main conclusion drawn indicates that, although the tax policy applied does not correspond to a significant water saving in the above-mentioned sector, a reallocation of this resource is achieved which seems to generate a more efficient and more rational behavior from a production point of view.

Keywords: environmental tax reforms; computable general equilibrium; water price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C57 D58 H21 H22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2007-03
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Working Paper: Water Price and Water Relocation in Andalusia. A Computable General Equilibrium Approach (2000)
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