This article analyzes the consequences of environmental public policy when private agents have access to abatement activity, financed by private contributions. The issue at stake is the interactions between private involvement in abatement activities and public intervention. The analysis of the...

This article analyses the consequences of environmental public policy when private agents have access to abatement activity, ?nanced by private contributions. The question at stake is to determine if private involvement in abatement activities should challenge public intervention. The analysis...

This article analyzes the consequences of environmental public policy when private agents have access to abatement activity, financed by private contributions. The issue at stake is the interactions between private involvement in abatement activities and public intervention. The analysis of the...

Cet article analyse l’activité de recyclage dans un cadre d’équilibre général. Nous montrons que l’État doit subventionner les récupérateurs recycleurs si ceuxci supportent des coûts trop élevés, afin de les inciter à récupérer et à recycler tout le gisement disponible de...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the efficiency and equity consequences of the implementation of an environmental tax. Do the two purposes collide or can they be simultaneously achieved? Using results of the related literature, we show that precise conditions have to be met in order to...

Environmental concerns play an increasing part in public debate and international negotiations and France has always been one of the leaders of this trend. Nonetheless, French environmental policies remain fairly cautious for at least three reasons. First, because of the lack of...

This article analyzes the consequences of environmental tax policies when the government imposes a constraint on stabilizing public debt. A public sector of pollution abatement is financed by taxation and by issuing public debt. Considering a simple overlapping-generations model, the tax reform...

This paper considers recycling in a general equilibrium model. It is shown that recycling should be subsidized if recycling costs are high, as an incentive to recycle all of the available waste. This tax incentive should vanish if recycling is profitable enough. In this case, recycling should...

The double dividend literature studies the simultaneous pursuit of two objectives: improved quality of the environment through the implementation of an environmental tax (first dividend) and increased social welfare by reducing overall tax distortions (second dividend). This paper investigates...

European countries have increased their use of environmental tax instruments by designing new tax bases. But, many countries have to face the opposition of the public opinion, for fear of the distributive consequences of these environmental tax reforms. This paper sheds light on the...