Fullerton, Don; Heutel, Garth - In: Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 8 (2007) 4, pp. 255-270
We develop a simple general equilibrium model in the style of Harberger to analyze the distributional effects of the proposed “environment tax” on carbon in Japan. We derive closed-form equations that show how a change in the tax rate affects the economy-wide return to capital, wage, and...