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gap”. Then policies targeting durability raise welfare. While externalities are corrected by Pigovian taxes that ignore … suboptimal, a durability mandate raises welfare. Third, internalities have ambiguous effects. Fourth, a social discount rate less …
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gap". Then policies targeting durability raise welfare. While externalities are corrected by Pigovian taxes that ignore … suboptimal, a durability mandate raises welfare. Third, internalities have ambiguous effects. Fourth, a social discount rate less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657877
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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) precautionary savings and (ii) production externalities. By solving the Ramsey problem analytically along the entire transitional …
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This paper discusses the externalities and market failures in cryptocurrency markets. In particular, I highlight the … significant environmental externalities created by Proof-of-Work (PoW) cryptocurrencies, the most prominent of which is Bitcoin …. The main goals of this paper are to quantify these externalities, illustrate the mechanisms by which they arise, and …
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should be spatially-differentiated or uniform when negative RES environmental externalities are spatially heterogeneous and …
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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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This paper explores the interactions between taxes on work-related traffic congestion and pre-existing distortionary taxes in the labor market. A congestion tax raises the overall costs of commuting to work and discourages labor force participation. The resulting welfare loss in the labor market...
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The presence of preexisting tax distortions, and the form of revenue recycling, can crucially affect the size - and … possibly even the sign - of the welfare effect of road pricing schemes. The efficiency gains from recycling congestion tax … market can raise the overall welfare gains of the congestion tax by as much as 100 percent. Recycling congestion tax revenues …
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We develop a model of Tiebout sorting based on decentralized income taxation, which allows for spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of the publicly provided good. We identify three sources of welfare loss from decentralization: Imperfect redistribution, inter-jurisdictional...
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