کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
959091 929133 2009 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The optimal pricing of pollution when enforcement is costly
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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The optimal pricing of pollution when enforcement is costly
چکیده انگلیسی

We consider the pricing of a uniformly mixed pollutant with a model of optimal, possibly firm-specific, emissions taxes and their enforcement under incomplete information about firms’ abatement costs, enforcement costs, and pollution damage. We argue that optimality requires an enforcement strategy that induces full compliance by every firm, except possibly when a regulator can base the probabilities of detecting individual violations on observable correlates of violators’ actual emissions. Moreover, optimality requires discriminatory taxes, except when a regulator is unable to use observable firm-level characteristics to gain some information about the variation in firms’ abatement costs or monitoring costs.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management - Volume 58, Issue 2, September 2009, Pages 183–191
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