Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/229567 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8749
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the efficient emissions taxation in economies with individuals who are morally motivated to reduce their emissions footprint. They are heterogenous with respect to their morality and their consumption preferences. We distinguish between the concepts of moral and conventional utilitarian (= material) welfare. The materially efficient tax rates turn out to be consumer-type specific; they are smaller than the Pigovian tax rate; and the smaller, the higher the individuals’ propensity to act morally. Finally, we briefly characterize the second-best uniform emissions tax.
Subjects: 
Pigovian tax
material
moral
Kantian
consumer-type tax
JEL: 
H21
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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