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First-and second-best allocations under economic and environmental uncertainty

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Economides, George; … - In: International Tax and Public Finance 20 (2013) 3, pp. 360-380

This paper uses a micro-founded DSGE model to compare second-best optimal environmental policy, and the resulting Ramsey allocation, to first-best allocation. The focus is on the source and size of uncertainty, and how this affects optimal choices and the comparison between second- and...

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Tax competition leading to strict environmental policy

Withagen, Cees; Halsema, Alex - In: International Tax and Public Finance 20 (2013) 3, pp. 434-449

We study tax competition when pollution matters. Most notably, we present a dynamic setting, where the supply of capital is endogenous. It is shown that tax competition may involve stricter environmental policy than the cooperative outcome. Copyright The Author(s) 2013

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Strategic Environmental Policies under International Duopolistic Competition

Tanguay, Georges - In: International Tax and Public Finance 8 (2001) 5, pp. 793-811

This paper examines the welfare implications of trade liberalization when governments behave strategically using pollution taxes and tariffs on imports. This competition leads to inefficiencies as each government seeks foreign rent and tries to transfer pollution to the other country. It is...

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Can household mobility solve basic environmental problems?

Wellisch, Dietmar - In: International Tax and Public Finance 2 (1995) 2, pp. 245-260

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Environmental Policy and Public Revenue with International Capital Mobility

MÆstad, Ottar - In: International Tax and Public Finance 13 (2006) 1, pp. 43-58

In the presence of preexisting distortionary taxes, it is often argued that auctioned emission permits are preferable … that when capital is internationally mobile, it may be optimal to use a combination of non-auctioned and auctioned emission … benefits in terms of reduced transboundary pollution and may lead to increased public revenue because the price of emission …

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Environmental Product Standards, International Trade and Monopolistic Competition

Haupt, Alexander - In: International Tax and Public Finance 7 (2000) 4, pp. 585-608

Thispaper examines the performance of non-cooperative environmentalpolicy in the case of local consumption externalities. In a two-countrymodel with monopolistic competiton, governments simultaneouslyimpose environmental product standards. Stricter regulationsforce the industrial sector to shift...

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Environmental regulation and the location of polluting industries

Rauscher, Michael - In: International Tax and Public Finance 2 (1995) 2, pp. 229-244

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