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Environmental policy negotiations, transboundary pollution and lobby groups in small open economies

Persson, Lars - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

pollution and international environmental policies. In our framework, international environmental policies are characterized as … pollution taxes determined in a negotiation between two countries. We find, among other things, that the presence of local … lobbying tends to reduce the level of pollution taxes. We also find that an increase in the environmental concern (i …

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Tax or no tax? Preferences for climate policy attributes

Brännlund, Runar; Persson, Lars - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010

Today, many countries around the world respond to the global warming and its consequences with various policy instruments such as e.g. taxes, subsidies, emission permit trading, regulations and information campaigns. In the economic literature, policy instruments have typically been analyzed...

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Climate Policy Measures: What do people prefer ?

Cole, Scott; Brännlund, Runar - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

Several countries are responding to the climate change threat with various policy measures (e.g., taxes, permit trading, regulations, information campaigns, etc). While the effectiveness of different measures (instruments) has been studied extensively, very little research exists related to...

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State-Variable Public Goods When Relative Consumption Matters: A Dynamic Optimal Taxation Approach

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011

This paper concerns the optimal provision of a state-variable public good, where the global climate is the prime example. The analysis is based on a two-type optimal income tax model with overlapping generations, where people care about their relative consumption. We consider both...

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Publicly Provided Private Goods and Optimal Taxation when Consumers Have Positional Preferences

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

This paper analyzes optimal differential commodity taxation, together with optimal nonlinear income taxation, in order to deal with positional preferences. It also derives the optimal public provision of private goods both when differential commodity taxation is feasible and when it is not. It...

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Self-Control Problems and Conspicuous Housing Consumption:Implications for Tax Policy

Aronsson, Thomas; Mannberg, Andrea - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2013

During the latest decades, household mortgage loans have increased substantially in many countries. We develop an OLG model where housing is a positional consumption good (such that housing choices are partly driven by relative consumption concerns), and where the consumers are also...

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Keeping up with the Joneses, the Smiths and the Tanakas: Optimal Taxation with Social Comparisons in a Multi-Country Economy

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2013

Recent empirical evidence suggests that between-country social comparisons have become more important over time. This paper analyzes optimal income taxation in a multi-country economy, where consumers derive utility from their relative consumption compared with both other domestic residents and...

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Paternalism against Veblen: Optimal Taxation and Non-Respected Preferences for Social Comparisons

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

This paper deals with optimal income taxation and relative consumption under a welfarist government that fully respects people’s preferences and a paternalist government that does not share the consumer preference for relative consumption. Consistent with previous findings, relative...

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Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

Much evidence suggests that people are concerned with their relative consumption, i.e., their consumption in relation to the consumption of others. Yet, the social costs of conspicuous consumption have so far played little (or no) role in savings-based indicators of sustainable development. The...

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When Samuelson Met Veblen Abroad: National and Global Public Good Provision when Social Comparisons Matter

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2012

This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. Furthermore, we compare these policy rules with those that follow from...

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