The paper examines the effects of environmental uncertainty on Pigouvian tax and abatement policy used, either separately or contemporaneously, to counteract pollution. We discuss these effects by introducing three kinds of risk: risk on the environmental quality, risk on the impact of pollution and risk on the impact of abatement. For each case we determine the conditions ensuring that risk increases the size of public intervention and provide an economic interpretation and some parallelisms with other risk problems. The last part of the paper generalizes some of our results to the case of N-th order risk changes.

Baiardi, D., Menegatti, M. (2011). Pigouvian tax, abatement policies and uncertainty on the environment. JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 103(3), 221-251 [10.1007/s00712-011-0199-7].

Pigouvian tax, abatement policies and uncertainty on the environment

BAIARDI, DONATELLA
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2011

Abstract

The paper examines the effects of environmental uncertainty on Pigouvian tax and abatement policy used, either separately or contemporaneously, to counteract pollution. We discuss these effects by introducing three kinds of risk: risk on the environmental quality, risk on the impact of pollution and risk on the impact of abatement. For each case we determine the conditions ensuring that risk increases the size of public intervention and provide an economic interpretation and some parallelisms with other risk problems. The last part of the paper generalizes some of our results to the case of N-th order risk changes.
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Abatement policies; Bivariate utility; Environment; Pigouvian tax; Uncertainty; Business, Management and Accounting (all); Economics and Econometrics
English
2011
103
3
221
251
open
Baiardi, D., Menegatti, M. (2011). Pigouvian tax, abatement policies and uncertainty on the environment. JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 103(3), 221-251 [10.1007/s00712-011-0199-7].
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