Environmental Investment and Policy with Distortionary Taxes and Endogenous Growth

• 발행기관: 한국재정학회(구 한국재정·공공경제학회)
• 저자명: Don Fullerton Seung-Rae Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『한국재정학회 학술대회 논문집』2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집, 1~28쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 경제경영 > 경제학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.10.30

영문 초록

Recent studies consider public R&D spending that affects abatement knowledge and endogenous growth, distortionary taxes that affect physical and human capital formation, pollution taxes that affect environmental degradation, and regeneration that restores natural capital. Our model combines all of those elements. We show how the combination affects results from each prior model, focusing on two parameters that represent the need for distorting taxes, and the productivity of abatement knowledge relative to pollution. First, either of these two extensions can reverse the prior finding that pollution tax revenue is more than enough to pay for public abatement R&D. Second, tax distortions and externalities substantially alter prior findings that the ratio of public to private capital is based only on output elasticities. Third, our dynamic model affects prior static findings about how other public spending “crowds out” provision of the environmental public good. Fourth, we show whether a greater need for public spending leads to greater increases in the distorting tax or pollution tax. Fifth, while prior research is optimistic that environmental regulation can boost economic growth, we show how it may increase or decrease the growth rate – even if it raises welfare.

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Abstract

1. The Model

2. Policies for Sustainable Development

3. Conclusions

Appendix A: The Equilibrium Dynamics of the Economy

Appendix B: Derivation of Effects on Welfare and Growth

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