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Beyond Pigouvian Taxes: A Worst Case Analysis
In the early 20th century, Pigou observed that imposing a marginal cost tax on the usage of a public good induces a socially efficient level of use...
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The Design of Emission Taxes in Markets with New Firm Acquisitions
In the 1990s there was a great deal of interest in the study of the role of endogenous market structure under oligopoly in the characterization of...
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Enhancing the effectiveness of joint production and maintenance scheduling based on a multi-agent system and a Pigouvian approach of externalities
Joint maintenance and production scheduling is very important and challenging in the smart manufacturing field. Multi-agent systems based on...
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Pigouvian Tolls and Welfare Optimality with Parallel Servers and Heterogeneous Customers
Congestion externalities are a well-known phenomenon in transportation and communication networks, healthcare etc. Optimization by self-interested...
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Green Taxes and Policies for Environmental Protection
Neil Bruce and Gregory Ellis, in this chapter, review green taxes and policies for environmental protection. Taxing polluting inputs and outputs is a...
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Meat taxes in Europe can be designed to avoid overburdening low-income consumers
Consumption taxes on meat have recently been under consideration in several European countries as part of their effort to achieve more sustainable...
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Garnering support for Pigouvian taxation with tax return: a lab experiment
To test if tax return can effectively and efficiently increase the acceptance of externality taxation, a laboratory experiment with a negative...
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The impact of petrol and diesel oil taxes in EU member states on CO2 emissions from passenger cars
The article aims to explain road CO 2 emissions, including passenger car emissions in the EU member states, with the rates of indirect taxes (except...
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Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework
The extent of voluntary cooperation in the presence of externalities is shown as an equilibrium outcome in the supply and demand framework. The...
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The effects of resource export and import taxes on resource conservation and welfare outcomes: triple win or loss reconsidered
For an extended period, international economists have focused on trade policies related to natural resources in develo** countries. However,...
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The case for subsidizing harm: constrained and costly Pigouvian taxation with multiple externalities
Many activities are subsidized despite generating negative externalities. Examples include needle exchanges and energy production subsidies. We...
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Lifestyle taxes in the presence of profit shifting
The consumption of unhealthy products generates significant externalities in terms of increased future health care costs to society. Lifestyle taxes...
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Don’t look earth: environmental taxes effect on Co2 emissions, evidence from moments quantile regression for EU countries
This study explores the roles of selected European Union members in the struggle for environmental externalities in the impact of energy and...
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Environmental taxation: Pigouvian or Leviathan?
This paper empirically examines which type of fiscal levies are environmental taxes, by analyzing how governments actually use them. The theoretical...
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Low-Carbon Investment and Credit Rationing
This paper develops a principal-agent model with adverse selection to analyse firms’ decisions between an existing carbon-intensive technology and a...
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Land Subsidence Impacts and Optimal Groundwater Management in South Africa
Fresh surface water is increasingly becoming scarcer worldwide, leading to significant groundwater over-extraction. However, groundwater...
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Obesity: distributional effects of sweetener taxes
AimWhile sweetener taxes are prevalent worldwide to mitigate the excess consumption of sweeteners that are believed to contribute to obesity, in the...
