Environmental taxation and the double dividend

• Other Authors: Mooij, Ruud A. de
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Science BV, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Contributions to economic analysis ; v. 246.
• Subjects: Environmental impact charges > Netherlands.; Business & Economics > Taxation > General.; Business & Economics > Economics > General.; Environmental economics.; Taxation.

Environmental Taxation and the Double Dividend explores the welfare effects of environmental taxes in a second-best framework. It starts from a benchmark model which reveals that environmental taxes typically exacerbate pre-existing tax distortions, even if the revenues are used to cut other distort...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / R. A. de Mooij
• A survey of the double-dividend literature / R. A. de Mooij
• Environmental taxes as trade-policy instruments / R. A. de Mooij
• Environmental taxes and distributional concerns / R. A. de Mooij
• Labor-market imperfections and the triple dividend / R. A. de Mooij
• Feedback effects of the environment on the economy / R. A. de Mooij
• Green tax reform in an endogenous growth model
• Conclusions / R. A. de Mooij
• Environmental tax reform in the benchmark model / R. A. de Mooij
• The role of capital mobility and factor substitution / R. A. de Mooij.