Optimal enforcement policy and firms' emissions and compliance with environmental taxes:

In a market where firms with different characteristics decide upon both the level of emissions and their reports, we study the optimal audit policy for an enforcement agency whose objective is to minimize the level of emissions. We show that it is optimal to devote the resources primarily to the eas...

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Hauptverfasser: Macho-Stadler, Inés 1959- (VerfasserIn), Pérez-Castrillo, J. David 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Munich CES 2004
Munich Ifo
Schriftenreihe:CESifo working papers 1193 : Category 8, Resources and environment
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Zusammenfassung:In a market where firms with different characteristics decide upon both the level of emissions and their reports, we study the optimal audit policy for an enforcement agency whose objective is to minimize the level of emissions. We show that it is optimal to devote the resources primarily to the easiest-to-monitor firms and to those firms that value pollution the less. Moreover, unless the budget for monitoring is very large, there are always firms that do not comply with the environmental objective and others that do comply; but all of them evade the environmental taxes.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 25 - 27. - Auch im Internet unter den Adressen www.SSRN.com und www.CESifo.de verfügbar
Beschreibung:27 S. graph. Darst. 21 cm

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