Nonpoint source pollution taxes and excessive tax burden
Karp, Larry S. (2005) Nonpoint source pollution taxes and excessive tax burden. Environmental and Resource Economics, 31, (2), 229-251. (doi:10.1007/s10640-005-1772-8).
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If a regulator is unable to measure firms' individual emissions, an ambient tax can be used to achieve the socially desired level of pollution. With this tax, each firm pays a unit tax on aggregate emissions. In order for the tax to be effective, firms must recognize that their decisions affect aggregate emissions. When firms behave strategically with respect to the tax-setting regulator, under plausible circumstances their tax burden is lower under an ambient tax, relative to the tax which charges firms on the basis of individual emissions. Firms may prefer the case where the regulator is unable to observe individual firm emissions, even if this asymmetric information causes the regulator to tax each firm on the basis of aggregate emissions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0924-6460 (print) |
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| Keywords: | ambient tax, asymmetric information, differential games, moral hazard, nonpoint source pollution |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences > Economics |
| Item ID: | 39697 |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 04:34 |
| Contributors: | Karp, Larry S. (Author) |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | karp@are.berkeley.edu |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/39697 |
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