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Optimal Taxation, Global Externalities and Labor Mobility

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Aronsson, Thomas () (Department of Economics, Umeå University)
Blomquist, Sören () (Department of Economics)
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This paper addresses transboundary environmental problems in the context of an optimal tax problem, when part of the labor force is mobile across countries. The policy instruments include both commodity taxation and nonlinear income taxation. We show how the tax policy in a noncooperative equilibrium differs from that corresponding to a cooperative equilibrium. The results also indicate how a 'global policy maker' must act in order to make the national policy makers replicate the cooperative equilibrium.

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Paper provided by Umeå University, Department of Economics in its series Umeå Economic Studies with number 544.

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Keywords: Transboundary externalities; fiscal federalism; optimal taxation;

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H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General

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