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- Title
Green Policies and Public Finance in a Small Open Economy*.
- Authors
Bovenberg, A. Lans; van der Ploeg, Frederik
- Abstract
Abstract We explore the effects of greener preferences for the public finances, employment, and the domestic capital stock in a second-best framework. We find that greener preferences typically result in capital flight. Also, employment declines despite the factor substitution that is induced by a lower tax on labour and a higher tax on natural resources. If the uncompensated wage elasticity of labour supply is positive, private utility declines. Public consumptions, in contrast, may rise if most of the improvement in environmental quality occurs through a lower level rather than a cleaner composition of economic activity. However, if the labour supply curve bends backward, private utility rises while public consumption falls.
- Subjects
CAPITAL; PUBLIC finance; EMPLOYMENT; CAPITAL stock
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1994, Vol 96, Issue 3, p343
- ISSN
0347-0520
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3440497