-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, including carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems applied economy-wide and to the power sector …, if revenues are used to substitute for distortionary income taxes (either directly, or indirectly through deficit … reduction), economy-wide carbon taxes (or auctioned allowance systems) may have (slightly) negative costs. The bottom line is …

Many transportation policies indirectly affect vehicle travel and resulting externalities by inducing changes in …

federal policy makers who historically have relied on motor vehicle fuel excise taxes to fund highway projects. This paper …

Pigouvian taxes and user fees can address environmental externalities and efficiently fund transportation … consequences of the gasoline tax, bus and light rail charges and a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. Gas taxes have become more … gas taxes declines with expenditures much less than the share of income spent on gas taxes declines with income. Replacing …

simple expression for optimal taxes that accommodates consumption externalities within Mirrlees (1971) framework. Using this … expression, I conduct a positive analysis of taxation: assuming that observed taxes are optimal, I derive analytic expressions … consumption externality agents of different income impose to society. Using these expressions, I rationalize income taxes in the …