Document Type : ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Authors

• Fatemeh Mehrabi ¹
• Somayeh Azami ²

¹ Razi University

² Razi university

Abstract

In today's world, welfare is considered as a result of the development process, but this economic growth, along with the increase in pollutants, has made environmental crises a major challenge for governments. Therefore, creating a balance between economic development and environmental quality has become one of the main priorities of policymakers. This research, using the dynamic stochastic environmental general equilibrium model and employing money growth as a monetary policy variable ,government expenditure as a fiscal policy variable and carbon tax as a policy variable in the environmental field aims to examine and analyze the welfare effects of macroeconomic and environmental policies and presents a new rule for fiscal , monetary, and environmental policies analyzes the interactions between fiscal, monetary, and environmental policies in the Iranian economy. The research findings show that in conditions of economic prosperity and the presence of positive aggregate productivity shocks, fiscal policy is the only policy that can reduce emission levels and simultaneously improve household welfare.The results of this study can be useful for environmental policymakers and monetary and fiscal decision-makers in Iran.

Keywords

• Carbon tax
• fiscal policy
• monetary policy
• climate change
• E-DSGE

Main Subjects

• Co2 Emissions