Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82891
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 1999:14
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
This paper addresses optimal taxation, when the relationship between consumption and environmental damage is uncertain and treated as a random variable by policy makers. The main purpose is to analyze how additional uncertainty about this relationship affects the optimal unit tax on the consumption good that is causing environmental damage. We find that the optimal response to this tax depends on (i) the attitudes towards risk and (ii) how other policy instruments affect the demand for the good that is causing damage to the environment.
Subjects: 
Green taxes
Uncertainty
Optimal taxation
JEL: 
D62
D80
H21
Q20
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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