Optimal emission charges and the differential taxation of leaded gasoline

This paper does not take sides about the velocity of the lead phasedown in Argentina nor about the (benefit-cost or cost effective oriented) policy design for its accomplishment. Rather, our motivation is to explore conditions for the use of emission charges in a general framework of optimal indirec...

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Autor principal: Navajas, Fernando Heberto
Formato: Objeto de conferencia
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1994
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/164788
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Sumario:This paper does not take sides about the velocity of the lead phasedown in Argentina nor about the (benefit-cost or cost effective oriented) policy design for its accomplishment. Rather, our motivation is to explore conditions for the use of emission charges in a general framework of optimal indirect taxation in order to guide pricing policies during the transition. Instead of seeing taxes as the only, or even the main, instrument to guide such a transition program, we alert on the consequences of neglecting taxes and thus giving wrong signals to consumers and producers while al the same time attempting to imposse a chronogram for substitution, In this vein, we attempt to contribute to the design of emission charges although we do not, at this sage, make progress towards computational aspects.