Product Description

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 distortionary taxes. Subsequent chapters extend the benchmark model by introducing capital, terms of trade effects, transfers, involuntary unemployment, or environmental feedbacks. Thus, the book reveals several channels through which a double-dividend can be obtained. However, it also shows the trade-offs they induce. Simulations with the models illustrate the importance of these trade-offs for European economies.

This book is a useful tool for graduates, post graduates, researchers and staff of universities with fiscal and environmental departments. International organizations such as the IMF, OECD and the World Bank, and policy makers within governments: Ministries of Finance/Economics/Environment. Research Institutes, both private and public will also benefit from this piece of work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3641469 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 310 pages

Review
Addresses the issue of optimal second-best pollution taxes and evaluates the likehood that a double dividend of environmental and nonenvironmental benefits can be obtained from environmental taxes substituting for taxes on labor income
Journal of Economic Literature