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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 …

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Chapter 23. Environmental Taxation and Regulation

Lans Bovenberg, A.; Goulder, Lawrence H. - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 3, (pp. 1471-1545). 2002

This chapter examines government policy alternatives for protecting the environment. We compare environmentally motivated taxes and various non-tax environmental policy instruments in terms of their efficiency and distributional impacts. Much of the analysis is performed in a second-best setting...

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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage

Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014

This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage can be socially beneficial by...

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Optimal Level of Government Debt - Matching Wealth Inequality and the Fiscal Sector

Vogel, Edgar - 2014

We calibrate an incomplete markets large scale OLG model to the US income and wealth distribution and examine the effects of alternative government debt levels and adjustment policies on macroeconomic aggregates and welfare. We find that the government should hold negative debt. Due to the high...

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Mixed taxation and transboundary externalities : a model with large jurisdictions

Aronsson, Thomas; Persson, Lars; Sjögren, Tomas - In: Public finance review : PFR 42 (2014) 2, pp. 254-282

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The Distributional Impacts of Policies for the Control of Transport Externalities : An Applied General Equilibrium Model

Mayeres, Inge - 1999

policy reform is welfare improving or not. From the theory of optimal taxation in the presence of externalities, we know that … welfare effects of small policy changes in the presence of transport externalities. The model incorporates three types of … externalities: congestion, which has a feedback effect on the behaviour of the economic agents, air pollution and accidents. The …

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Exports and externalities : the other side of trade and ecological risk

Warziniack, Travis; Finno, David; Shogren, Jason F.; … - 2009

externalities caused by domestic trade, focusing on exter- nalities that arise through exports. Externalities from exports come from … for a wide range of externalities and show the most widely used corrective mechanism, taxes on the sector imposing the …

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Do alcohol taxes in Europe and the US rightly correct for externalities?

Herrnstadt, Evan; Parry, Ian W. H.; Siikamäki, Juha - In: International tax and public finance 22 (2015) 1, pp. 73-101

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Subsidizing non-polluting goods vs. taxing polluting goods for pollution reduction

Main, Robert S. - In: Atlantic economic journal : AEJ 41 (2013) 4, pp. 349-362

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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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