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Environmental policy, public goods, and the marginal cost of public funds

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  • Ploeg, F. van der
  • Bovenberg, A.L.

    (Tilburg University)

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If private goods are perfect substitutes for public goods and environmental quality, greener preferences reduce employment, raise abatement, and improve environmental quality. If the elasticity of substitution between private goods and leisure exceeds one, the tax rate increases, thereby reducing private consumption. However, if labor supply bends backwards, private utility rises while the tax rate and public consumption fall. With imperfect substitution between private and public consumption, greener policies boost labor supply if the substitution elasticity between private and public consumption and the elasticity of the effectiveness of public abatement are small and the labor supply curve bends backwards. Copyright 1994 by Royal Economic Society.

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Paper provided by Tilburg University in its series Open Access publications from Tilburg University with number urn:nbn:nl:ui:12-152984.

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Date of creation: 1994
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Publication status: Published in Economic Journal (1994) v.104, p.444-454
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  2. Schöb, Ronnie, 2009. "Climate policy: choosing the right instrument to reap an additional employment dividend," Discussion Papers 2009/10, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
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  5. Juan González Alegre, 2012. "An evaluation of EU regional policy. Do structural actions crowd out public spending?," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 151(1), pages 1-21, April.
  6. Andersen, Torben M. & Rasmussen, Bo Sandemann & Sorensen, Jan Rose, 1996. "Optimal fiscal policy in open economies with labour market distortions," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(1), pages 103-117, December.
  7. Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, 2001. "Le double dividende: Les approches theoriques," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-00089916, HAL.
  8. Ronnie Schöb, 2003. "The Double Dividend Hypothesis of Environmental Taxes: A Survey," Working Papers 2003.60, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
  9. F. Barigozzi & B. Villeneuve, 2001. "Influencing the Misinformed Misbehaver: An Analysis of Public Policy towards Uncertainty and External Effects," Working Papers 404, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna.

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