Liu, Chia-ying; Chang, Juin-jen - In: Economic Modelling 28 (2011) 4, pp. 1519-1525
This paper sets up a two-good (domestically- and internationally-produced goods) model of a small open economy with consumption externalities and uses it to examine the optimal taxation. Since keeping up with the Joneses leads an individual consumption's to impose a negative externality on the...