The Marginal Cost of Public Funds Theory and Applications by Bev Dahlby The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Contents Preface XI 1 Introduction ...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Foundations of the MCF -- 3 The MCF for Commodity Taxes -- 4 The MCFs for Excise Taxes in Thailand and the United Kingdom -- 5 The MCF from Taxing Labor Income -- 6 Applications of the MCF from Taxing Labor Income -- 7 The MCF from...

We extend the Ahmad and Stern (1984) framework for calculating the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) for excise taxes in Thailand by incorporating non-tax distortions caused by (a) environmental externalities, (b) public expenditure externalities, (c) market power in setting prices, (d)...