Optimal Fiscal Policy and the Environment /

The paper studies the setting of optimal fiscal policy in a second-best world with environmental externalities. The optimal second-best pollution tax is shown to lie below the first-best Pigovian tax, particularly if substitution between labor and polluting intermediate inputs is easy, the labor sup...

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मुख्य लेखक: Ligthart, Jenny
स्वरूप: पत्रिका
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
श्रृंखला:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/146
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:Full text available on IMF