A Tax on Output of the Polluting Industry Is Not a Tax on Pollution: The Importance of Hitting the Target
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Copyright 2001
ISBN 9780226094816
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Copy CitationDon Fullerton, Inkee Hong, and Gilbert E. Metcalf, Behavioral and Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2001), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/behavioral-and-distributional-effects-environmental-policy/tax-output-polluting-industry-not-tax-pollution-importance-hitting-target.
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We explore the effects of environmental taxes that imprecisely target pollution. A review of actual policies...
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