Similar Search Results

Simple Pigovian Taxes vs. Emission Fees to Control Negative Externalities : A Pedagogical Note

Main, Robert S. - 2008

Many economics texts cover the economics of controlling negative production externalities. Most authors introduce their analysis by examining a tax on the output of polluting firms, sometimes called a "simple Pigovian tax." They then often point out that taxing pollution directly is more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215773

Government Incentives When Pollution Permits are Durable Goods

Haucap, Justus; Kirstein, Roland - 2014

This paper analyzes the incentive effects of pollution taxes versus pollution permits for a budget oriented Government. Pollution permits are analyzed as durable goods, and a pollution tax is seen as an equivalent to leasing pollution permits. First, a general model is developed and then four...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111054

Employment and Growth Effects of Tax Reforms in a Growth-Matching Model

Birk, Angela; Michaelis, Jochen - 2003

This paper explores how revenue-neutral tax reforms impact employment and economic growth in models of exogenous and … the wage tax lowers both equilibrium employment and the equilibrium growth rate, that (ii) a higher energy tax combined … with a cut in wage taxes boosts employment but has an ambiguous effect on growth, and that (iii) a higher energy tax …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095062

Chapter 6. The Theory of Pollution Policy

Helfand, Gloria E.; Berck, Peter; Maull, Tim - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 249-303). 2003

Physically, pollution occurs because it is virtually impossible to have a productive process that involves no waste; economically, pollution occurs because polluting is less expensive than operating cleanly. This chapter explores the sources and consequences of, and remedies for, pollution and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023939

Combining Rebates with Carbon Taxes : Optimal Strategies for Coping with Emissions Leakage and Tax Interactions

Fischer, Carolyn; Fox, Alan K. - 2013

Emissions regulations like carbon pricing raise the price of covered sector goods and thus can interact with and exacerbate other preexisting distortions in the economy. One such distortion is labor taxes. Another is emissions "leakage" due to the lack of comparable emissions pricing abroad or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207714