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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Production and Abatement Distortions under Noisy Green Taxes
Autores: | Feng,   Hongli; Hennessy,   David A.
Data: | 2005-10-20
Ano: | 2005
Palavras-chave: | Conditioning; Heterogeneity; Informativeness; Pigouvian tax; Signaling; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Resumo: | Pigouvian taxes are typically imposed in situations where there is imperfect knowledge on the extent of damage caused by a producing firm. A regulator imposing imperfectly informed Pigouvian taxes may cause the firms that should (should not) produce to shut down (produce). In this paper we use a Bayesian information framework to identify optimal signal-conditioned taxes in the presence of such losses. The tax system involves reducing (increasing) taxes on firms identified as causing high (low) damage. Unfortunately, when an abatement decision has to be made, the tax system that minimizes production distortions also dampens the incentive to abate. In the absence of wrong-firm concerns, a regulator can solve the problem by not adjusting taxes for signal noise. When wrong-firm losses are a concern, the regulator has to trade off losses from distorted production incentives with losses from distorted abatement incentives. The most appropriate policy may involve a combination of instruments.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

18384

http://purl.umn.edu/18480

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

Iowa State University&gt;Center for Agricultural and Rural Development&gt;CARD Working Paper Series

CARD Working Paper 05-WP 409

Formato:

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