Pollution abatement versus spillover effects: is urban toll a relevant fiscal tool?

Rémy Le Boennec

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Abstract: Using an urban economic model with an endogenous centre, we prove to what extent policies aimed at reducing pollution generated by working households' commuting trips involve a better control of urban sprawl as a positive side-effect. After the eco-tax has been levied by a local planner in the form of a kilometric urban toll, spillover effects which incited firms to group together in the Central Business District (CBD) keep on working as a positive externality. Under certain conditions, they are even strengthened.

Keywords: urban economics; land use; environmental tax; pollution; urban toll; urban sprawl; accessibility; commuting; spillover effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-06-27
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Published in 19th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Jun 2012, Prague, Czech Republic

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