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This paper examines potential environmental tax policy reforms. It focuses primarily on a carbon tax, but also more briefly considers a range of other possible changes. These include revising or eliminating various energy and environmental tax credits and deductions (many of which might become...
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This paper explores how the costs of meeting given aggregate targets for pollution emissions change with the imposition of the requirement that key pollution-related industries be compensated for potential losses of profit from the pollution regulation. Using analytically and numerically solved...
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This study estimates parameters necessary to calculate the optimal second-best gasoline tax, most notably the cross-price elasticity between gasoline and leisure. Prior work indicates that in a second-best setting with distortionary income taxes, both the cost of environmental regulation and the...
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We study how the distribution of income among members of society, and income inequality in particular, affects social … income, and decreases (increases) with income inequality if and only if environmental goods and manufactured goods are … income inequality. We derive adjustment factors for benefit transfer to control for differences in income distributions …
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control policies do not have a numerically large impact on inequality (in comparison to the base run), statistical tests … indicate that inequality increases significantly more with OBA and RPT than with UCS …
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We study how the distribution of income among members of society, and income inequality in particular, affects social …) with income inequality if and only if environmental goods and manufactured goods are substitutes (complements). We derive … for two empirical case studies in Sweden and the World at large. We find that the adjustment for income inequality can be …
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inequality is often neglected. We study how income inequality affects the international transfer of the estimated value of …-driven, structural transfer factors to examine whether adjusting for income inequality affects errors made in benefit transfer, drawing … structural income inequality adjustment reduces benefit transfer errors by more than 1.5 percentage points on average across all …
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find that how environmental inequality affects societal willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental local public goods is … inequality decreases societal (WTP) for substitutes, but this effect is reversed if environmental goods are complements or …
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, both between countries and within them. But the degree of air quality inequality and its' trajectory have not been … quantified at a global level. I use economic inequality indices to measure global inequality in exposure to ambient fine … particles smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5). I find high and rising levels of global air quality inequality. The global PM2 …
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Industrial policy has long been criticized as subject to protectionist interests; accordingly, subsidies to domestic producers face disciplines under World Trade Organization agreements, without exceptions for environmental purposes. Now green industrial policy is gaining popularity as...
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