On Optimal Agri-Environmental Policy: a Public Finance View

M. Ollikainen

University of Helsinki, Department of Economics from Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper analyzes the design of agri-environmental policy, when the available instruments are simultaneously chosen so as to maximize society's target function. The instruments to be analyzed include the acreage subsidy targeting income support, the fertilizer tax, and the buffer-strip subsidy targeting environemental quality.

Keywords: ENVIRONMENT; AGRICULTURE; TAXATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H21 Q18 Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 1999
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