Evaluating sectoral effects of agricultural nitrogen pollution reduction policy in Croatia within a CGE framework

Agricultural and Food Economics - Tập 8 Số 1 - Trang 1-35 - 2020
Nadoveza Jelić, Ozana1,2, Šimurina, Jurica1
1Faculty of Economics and Business, Department of Macroeconomics and Economic Development, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2Modelling Department, Croatian National Bank, Zagreb, Croatia

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Environmental policies are becoming an important part of agricultural policy portfolio in the EU, which is binding on Croatia. This paper seeks to evaluate potential sectoral effects of several nitrogen pollution reduction policy measures within CGE model for Croatia. Finding appropriate agri-environmental policy design represents a typical optimization problem. Thus, the paper attempts to find potential agri-environmental measures which comply with supranational directives without jeopardizing other economic policy goals. Results show that polluter-pays principle-based measures, if not accompanied by the provider-gets principle measures, could have relatively large negative economy-wide effects in Croatia. However, these effects can be reduced by the appropriate policy mix.

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