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When nature rebels: international migration, climate change and inequality
Marchiori, Luca; Schumacher, Ingmar - HAL - 2009
migration, reduces climate change, increases North-South inequality if DRTS are significant; (v) a greener technology reduces … long-run migration, provides a double- dividend in favor of the environment, reduces inequality if the migrants' impact to … overall climate change is large. The preference over the policies thus depends on whether the policy maker targets inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793579
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Distributional effects of a carbon tax on car fuels in France
Bureau, Benjamin - HAL - 2011
This paper analyses the distributional effects of alternative scenarios of carbon taxes on car fuels using disaggregated French panel data from 2003 to 2006. It incorporates household price responsiveness that differs across income groups into a consumer surplus measure of tax burden. Carbon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793313
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The Stabilizing Virtues of Fiscal vs. Monetary Policy on Endogenous Bubble Fluctuations
Clain-Chamosset-Yvrard, Lise; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2013
We explore the existence of endogenous fluctuations with a rational bubble and the stabilizing role of fiscal and monetary policies. Consumers' credit constraints, the role of collateral and a portfolio choice are the key ingredients of our analysis. We consider an overlapping generations model...
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Taxing the Job Creators: Effcient Progressive Taxation with Wage Bargaining
Lawson, Nicholas - HAL - 2014
The standard economic view of the personal income tax is that it is a distortionary way of raising revenue which nonetheless has value because it tends to increase equality. However, when wages deviate from marginal product, the laissez-faire equilibrium is inefficient, and there can be an...
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On the Role of Progressive Taxation in a Ramsey Model with Heterogeneous Households
Bosi, Stefano; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2008
The aim of this paper is to study the role of progressive tax rules on the allocations of steady state and the stability properties in a Ramsey economy with heterogeneous households and borrowing constraints. Since labor supply in elastic, considering different tax rates on capital and labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738624
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The Free Trade Agreement Between the United States and Morocco. The Importance of a Gradual and Assymetric Agreement
Abdelkmalki, Lahsen; Jallab, Mustapha Sadni; Sandretto, … - HAL - 2007
The agreement recently signed between Morocco and the United States foresees several modalities in dismantling tariffs. Our simulations show that the various modalities of trade liberalization may have different impacts on the welfare, the rate of growth and the sectoral trade balance of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789047
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The Free Trade Agreement Between the United States and Morocco. The Importance of a Gradual and Assymetric Agreement
Jallab, Mustapha Sadni; Abdelkmalki, Lahsen; Sandretto, … - HAL - 2007
The agreement recently signed between Morocco and the United States foresees several modalities in dismantling tariffs. Our simulations show that the various modalities of trade liberalization may have different impacts on the welfare, the rate of growth and the sectoral trade balance of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790791
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Environmental Tax and the Distribution of Income among Heterogeneous Workers
Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Fodha, Mouez - HAL - 2009
This paper analyzes the environmental tax policy issues when labor is heterogeneous. The objective is to assess whether an environmental tax policy could be Pareto improving, when the revenue of the pollution tax is recycled by a change in the labor tax properties. We show that, depending on the...
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Double Dividend Hypothesis, Golden Rule and Welfare Distribution
Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Fodha, Mouez - HAL - 2006
This paper analyzes the double dividend issues within the framework of overlapping generations models. We characterize the necessary conditions for obtaining a double dividend, i.e. an improvement of environmental and non-environmental welfare when the revenue from the pollution tax is recycled...
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Health effects and optimal environmental taxes in welfare state countries
Caffet, Jean-Christophe - HAL - 2005
Most studies on the green tax reform issue point out that environmental taxes exacerbate pre-existing tax distortions, thereby increasing the welfare costs associated with the overall tax code. As a result, the optimal environmental tax should lie below the Pigovian level (or marginal social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750625