This paper examines the relative merits of two dominant economic instruments for reducing pollution—”green” taxes and … other. In practice, however, most countries have relied more on taxes than on permits to control pollution. The analysis …

In den ersten drei Aktionsprogrammen für den Umweltschutz der EG und der Anerkennung des Verursacherprinzips wurden … Kriterien für die Instrumentenwahl im Umweltschutz der EG festgelegt. Nach einer kurzen Darstellung dieser Aktionsprogramme … gehen die Verfasser auf das 4. Aktionsprogramm zum Umweltschutz ein sowie auf umweltbezogene Bestimmungen im Weißbuch zur …

capture, to reduce carbon and local pollution emissions. Motor fuel taxes should also account for congestion and other … reform. This includes harmonizing taxes for pollution content across different fuels and end-users, better aligning tax rates …

This paper explores the effects of an environmental tax reform on pollution, economic growth and welfare in an … endogenous growth model with pre-existing tax distortions. We find that a shift in the tax mix away from output towards pollution … determines the positive effect of lower aggregate pollution on the productivity of capital. The second channel is a shift in the …

Deutschland intensiv diskutiert. Die Eignung von Steuern als Instrument der Umweltpolitik muß daran gemessen werden, welche …

optimal second-best pollution tax is shown to lie below the first-best Pigovian tax, particularly if substitution between …

Many pollution-related industries wield strong political influence and can e.ectively veto policy initiatives that … permits or by exempting some inframarginal emissions from a pollution tax.However, such policies compel the government to … this constraint diminishes relative to the other e.ciency costs of pollution-control.We also calculate the compensation …