کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
985558 1480683 2014 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The impact of trial runs on the acceptability of environmental taxes: Experimental evidence
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تأثیر محاکمه بر پذیرش مالیات بر محیط زیست اجرا می شود: شواهد تجربی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی انرژی (عمومی)
چکیده انگلیسی


• The paper examines the political difficulty of enacting environmental taxes.
• We observe significant tax aversion – i.e., opposition to taxes that are materially beneficial.
• A trial period of an environmental tax significantly mitigates tax aversion.
• Effects from a trial period are robust across alternative tax schemes.

This paper examines the political difficulty of enacting welfare-enhancing environmental taxes. Using referenda in a market experiment with externalities, we investigate the effect of trial periods on the acceptability of two theoretically equivalent Pigouvian tax schemes. While implementing either tax is in subjects’ material self-interest, we find significant levels of opposition to both schemes, though the level differs considerably. Results show that trial runs can overcome initial tax aversion, which is robust across schemes, but a trial with one scheme does not affect the acceptability of the other. Trial periods also mitigate initial biases in preferences of alternative tax schemes.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Resource and Energy Economics - Volume 38, November 2014, Pages 84–95
نویسندگان
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