On Environmental Taxation under Uncertainty

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Research , Report , Preprint 01 Jan 1999 Sweden English Publisher:Uppsala: Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Authors: Aronsson, Thomas; Blomquist, Sören;

handle: 10419/82891

On Environmental Taxation under Uncertainty

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Abstract

This paper addresses optimal taxation, when the relationship between consumption and environmental damage is uncertain and treated as a random variable by policy makers. The main purpose is to analyze how additional uncertainty about this relationship affects the optimal unit tax on the consumption good that is causing environmental damage. We find that the optimal response to this tax depends on (i) the attitudes towards risk and (ii) how other policy instruments affect the demand for the good that is causing damage to the environment.

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Sweden

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Uppsala University
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Keywords

Q20, Economics, ddc:330, Ökosteuer, Uncertainty, Optimal taxation, Optimale Besteuerung, D62, Green taxes, Green taxes; Uncertainty; Optimal taxation, D80, Risiko, H21, Nationalekonomi, Theorie, jel: jel:D80, jel: jel:D62, jel: jel:H21, jel: jel:Q20

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