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Redistribution and pollution taxes with non-linear Engel curves
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This paper analyses optimal corrective taxation and optimal income redistribution. The Pigouvian pollution tax is higher if pollution damages disproportionally hurt the poor due to equity weighting of pollution damages. Moreover, under general utility functions, optimal pollution taxes should be set below the Pigouvian tax if the poor spend a disproportionate fraction of their income on polluting goods. However, if Engel curves are linear, optimal pollution taxes should follow the first-best ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.jeem.2019.01.008
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- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Journal website
- Volume:
- 95
- Pages:
- 198-226
- Publication date:
- 2019-02-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-01-25
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1096-0449
- ISSN:
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0095-0696
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- 2019-05-15
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- Elsevier
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Elsevier at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2019.01.008
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