The general equilibrium incidence of environmental taxes
By: Don Fullerton, Garth Heutel.
Contributors: Heutel, Garth.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11311; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11311.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Environmental impact charges -- Mathematical models.; Pollution -- Taxation -- Mathematical models.
Description: "We study the distributional effects of a pollution tax in general equilibrium, with general forms of substitution where pollution might be a relative complement or substitute for labor or for capital in production.  We find closed form solutions for pollution, output prices, and factor prices.  Various special cases help clarify the impact of differential factor intensities, substitution effects, and output effects.  Intuitively, the pollution tax might place disproportionate burdens on capital if the polluting sector is capital intensive, or if labor is a better substitute for pollution than is capital; however, conditions are found where these intuitive results do not hold.  We show exact conditions for the wage to rise relative to the capital return.  Plausible values are then assigned to all the parameters, and we find that variations over the possible range of factor intensities have less impact than variations over the possible range of elasticities"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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