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Using happiness surveys to value intangibles : the case of airport noise

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Baarsma, Barbara - 2004

We assess the monetary value of the noise damage, caused by aircraft noise nuisance around Amsterdam Airport, as the sum of hedonic house price differentials and a residual cost component. The residual costs are assessed from a survey, including an ordinal life satisfaction scale, on which...

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Using happiness surveys to value intangibles : the case of airport noise

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Baarsma, Barbara - 2004

Inhabitants of houses near Amsterdam Airport are complaining of noise nuisance, caused by aircraft traffic. The usual assumption is that the effect of the externality will be perfectly reflected by house price differentials. This is based on the implicit assumption that there is a...

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The shadow price of aircraft noise nuisance

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Baarsma, Barbara - 2001

This paper has a twofold objective. First, we develop a new method to assess the monetary valuefor individuals of external effects. The method makes use of an ordinal index of life satisfaction asscored by individual respondents who are subjected in varying intensity to the external effect....

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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy

Kaplow, Louis - 2020

taxation, commodity taxation, tax expenditures, externalities, public goods, capital income and wealth taxation, social …

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Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - 2007

A substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusing particularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equal marginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexisting distortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...

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Externalities, Public Goods, and Property Rights Revisited : Regulations Based on Traditional B-C Analyses are Too Lax

Graves, Philip E. - 2017

externalities. Samuelson (1954) laid out the conditions for optimal pure public goods provision, but noted that free-riding (the …, government intervention is unnecessary. Under the conditions underlying the Coase Theorem, externalities would be self … to the controversy here by describing a previously unexplored relationship between externalities, public goods, and …

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Optimal sin taxation and market power

O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2021

This paper studies the design of sin taxes when ﬁrms exercise market power. We outline an optimal tax framework that highlights how market power impacts the eﬃciency and redistributive properties of sin taxation, and quantify these eﬀects in an application to sugar-sweetened beverage...

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Are environmental tax policies beneficial? : learning from programme evaluation studies

Teusch, Jonas; Braathen, Nils Axel - 2019

This paper provides a concrete example of how policy analysts can use empirical programme evaluation studies to perform ex-post assessments of environmentally related tax policies. A number of studies credibly identify causal effects of environmentally related tax policies, but do not...

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Chapter 10 Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007

relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities …

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Chapter 25 Calculating the Costs of Environmental Regulation

Pizer, William A.; Kopp, Raymond - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1307-1351). 2005

Decisions concerning environmental protection hinge on estimates of economic burden. Over the past 30 years, economists have developed and applied various tools to measure this burden. In this chapter, we present a taxonomy of costs along with methods for measuring those costs. At the broadest...

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