Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171492 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper Series No. 06/48
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research, Zurich
Abstract: 
The interaction between habit formation and pollution-type ex- ternalities modifies the social optimum through discount effects and elasticity effects. If the substitution elasticity does not exceed unity, both effects reduce optimal consumption and capital in the long run, and the optimal capital-income tax increases with the relative impor- tance of habits. Similar results hold with high elasticity if the relative importance of habits is sufficiently high.
Subjects: 
externalities
habit formation
pollution
optimal growth
JEL: 
D62
D91
E21
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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