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Optimal fiscal policy with environmental tax and pollution abatement spending in a model with utility-enhancing environmental quality: lessons from Bulgaria

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  • Aleksandar Vasilev

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This paper characterized optimal fiscal policy in the presence of pollution, and evaluated it relative to the observed one in Bulgaria. To this end, a dynamic general-equilibrium model is calibrated to Bulgarian data. The main findings are: (i) The optimal steady-state income tax rate is zero; (ii) the benevolent Ramsey planner provides 20% higher utility-enhancing environmental quality; (iii) the optimal level of carbon taxes is almost three times higher, and the optimal level of abatement spending is six times higher; (iv) the optimal steady-state consumption tax is twice lower.

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  • Aleksandar Vasilev, 2019. "Optimal fiscal policy with environmental tax and pollution abatement spending in a model with utility-enhancing environmental quality: lessons from Bulgaria," Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(1), pages 24-35, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:macfem:v:12:y:2019:i:1:p:24-35
    DOI: 10.1080/17520843.2018.1522360
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    1. Aleksandar Vasilev, 2022. "Optimal fiscal policy in a model with efficiency wages: the case of Bulgaria," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 50(2), pages 195-209, September.
    2. Mihaela Onofrei & Anca-Florentina Gavriluţă (Vatamanu) & Ionel Bostan & Bogdan Florin Filip & Claudia Laurența Popescu & Gabriela Jitaru, 2020. "Impacts of the Allocation of Governmental Resources for Improving the Environment. An Empirical Analysis on Developing European Countries," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(8), pages 1-18, April.
    3. Aleksandar Vasilev, 2022. "Optimal fiscal policy in a model with reciprocity in labor relations: the case of Bulgaria," Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 41(1), pages 357-370, August.

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    JEL classification:

    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
    • C68 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computable General Equilibrium Models

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