Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76411 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 822
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper builds a model of a region with two non-identical countries, cross-border pollution and free movements of goods and capital within the region. Pollution reduces welfare and there is simultaneous private and public pollution abatement. Public pollution abatement is financed with the use of lump-sum and pollution tax revenue. The introduction of public pollution abatement enables us to derive the optimal pollution taxes in terms of the marginal cost of public pollution abatement. We derive and compare for each country the Nash and cooperative lump-sum and pollution taxes and examine how cross-border pollution and capital mobility affect them. Finally, we examine the impact of capital mobility on the effectiveness of pollution taxes on net pollution.
Subjects: 
optimal taxes
public pollution abatement
cross-border pollution
capital mobility
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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