Environmental taxation and the double dividend

Environmental Taxation and the Double Dividend explores the welfare effects of environmental taxes in a second-best framework. It starts from a benchmark model which reveals that environmental taxes typically exacerbate pre-existing tax distortions, even if the revenues are used to cut other distort...

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Other Authors Mooij, Ruud A. de
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Science BV, 2000.
Edition1st ed.
SeriesContributions to economic analysis ; v. 246.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN0444504915
9781849508483
ISSN0573-8555 ;
DOI10.1108/S0573-8555(2000)246
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 292 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / R. A. de Mooij
  • A survey of the double-dividend literature / R. A. de Mooij
  • Environmental taxes as trade-policy instruments / R. A. de Mooij
  • Environmental taxes and distributional concerns / R. A. de Mooij
  • Labor-market imperfections and the triple dividend / R. A. de Mooij
  • Feedback effects of the environment on the economy / R. A. de Mooij
  • Green tax reform in an endogenous growth model
  • Conclusions / R. A. de Mooij
  • Environmental tax reform in the benchmark model / R. A. de Mooij
  • The role of capital mobility and factor substitution / R. A. de Mooij.