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The aim of this paper is to examine whether the development of waste recycling activities can be a source of economic fluctuation. We assume that the recycling sector has four fundamental characteristics. (i) The production factors are restricted by the production of the last period. (ii) These...
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The aim of this paper is to study the optimal nuclear waste burial policy under an uncertainty : the possibility that an accident might occur in the future. The framework is an optimal growth model with pollution disutility. We show, under some conditions on the waste burial policy, that nuclear...
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European countries have increased their use of environmental tax instruments by designing new tax bases. But, many countries have to face the opposition of the public opinion, for fear of the distributive consequences of these environmental tax reforms. This paper sheds light on the distributive...
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This article analyzes the consequences on capital accumulation and environmental quality of environmental policies financed by public debt. A public sector of pollution abatement is financed by a tax and/or public debt. We show that if the initial capital stock is high enough, the economy...
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This article analyzes the consequences of environmental tax policies when the government imposes a constraint on stabilizing public debt. A public sector of pollution abatement is financed by taxation and by issuing public debt. Considering a simple overlapping-generations model, the tax reform...
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La littérature sur le double dividende étudie la poursuite simultanée de deux objectifs - l'amélioration de la qualité de l'environnement par l'instauration ou l'augmentation d'une taxe environnementale (premier dividende) et l'augmentation du bien-être social grâce à la diminution des...
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Le vieillissement démographique issu du non renouvellement des générations et de la progression de l'espérance de vie déstabilise les équilibres financiers des régimes de retraites pour les économies ayant fait le choix de la solidarité intergénérationnelle. Les réformes...
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This paper analyzes the double dividend issues within the framework of overlapping generations models. We characterize the necessary conditions for obtaining a double dividend, i.e. an improvement of environmental and non-environmental welfare when the revenue from the pollution tax is recycled...
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Cet article analyse les politiques fiscales à mettre en œuvre afin de lutter contre une externalité de pollution. Nous considérons un modèle à générations imbriquées où seul l'État mène une activité de maintenance de l'environnement, financée par le prélèvement de taxes....
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Cet article analyse l'activité de recyclage dans un cadre d'équilibre général. Nous montrons que l'Etat doit subventionner les récupérateurs recycleurs si ceux-ci supportent des coûts trop élevés, afin de les inciter à récupérer et recycler tout le gisement disponible de déchets. En...
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