Optimal Environmental Taxation

W.K. Jaeger

Department of Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: This paper shows that the integration of corrective environmental taxation and optimal tax theory must begin by recognizing that environmental pollution problems are market failures that arise in the absence of enforceable property rights for the assimilative capacity of environmental waste sinks to absorb and eliminate the residual byproducts of consumption and production.

Keywords: TAX POLICY; PUBLIC POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H20 H21 H22 Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 1996
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