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Who Bears the Economic Costs of Environmental Regulations?

Public economics has a well-developed literature on tax incidence – the ultimate burdens from tax policy. This literature is used here to describe not only the distributional effects of environmental taxes or subsidies but also the likely incidence of non-tax regulations, energy efficiency standards, or other environmental mandates. Recent papers find that mandates can be more regressive than carbon taxes. We also describe how the distributional effects of such policies can be altered by various market conditions such as limited factor mobility, trade exposure, evasion, corruption, or imperfect competition. Finally, we review data on carbon-intensity of production and exports around the world in order to describe implications for effects of possible carbon taxation on countries with different levels of income per capita.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6596

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Incidence
Thema
distributional effects
carbon tax
environmental policy
incidence

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fullerton, Don
Muehlegger, Erich
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fullerton, Don
  • Muehlegger, Erich
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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