Second-Best Pollution Taxation and Environmental Quality
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Second-Best Pollution Taxation and Environmental Quality
This paper deals with second-best pollution taxation by investigating allocations instead of the corresponding tax rates. Assuming certain restrictions on utility and that the marginal revenue from environmental taxation is positive, it is shown that environmental quality is higher in second best where only distortionary taxes are used to finance public expenditures than in the first-best optim...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Economic Analysis & Policy
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1538-0629
DOI: 10.2202/1538-0629.1363