Optimal environmental charges/taxes : easy to estimate and surplus-yielding

• Main Author: Ng, Yew-Kwang
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103047; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19099
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The estimation of the optimal charges/taxes on environmental disruption and the financing of the spending on the abatement of environmental disruption are important practical problems. This paper shows that, for most cases where some abatement is desirable, both the estimation and the financing prob...