It may be in the interest of low-ability individuals to subsidize the education of high-ability individuals. Sufficient conditions are surprisingly mild: positive externalities in education and complementarity in production between human capital and labor supplied by the low-ability individuals....

This thesis analyzes optimal wage taxation and the effects of wage taxation on investment in risky education, first in a closed economy and then in a federation with alternative tax constitutions. In the first period, students divide their time between education, leisure and work as uneducated...

The paper analyzes in a general equilibrium model the local and global pollution externality problems in which one firm pollutes and another firm in another industry suffer from pollution. Assuming that polluters and victims are located near each other (otherwise there is no local pollution...

The well-known tax results obtained in the traditional model of investment are re-examined in a model of imperfect corporate governance. The corporation tax, the dividend tax and the capital gains tax have unconventional stock market and real effects which operate through the managerial...

Consumers' increased willingness to pay a price premium for greener products stimulates firms to compete in environmental regulations. This paper uses a model of vertical product differentiation to study how an emission tax affects environmental quality competition, aggregate emissions, and...

This paper analyzes the design of agri-environmental policy, when the available instruments are simultaneously chosen so as to maximize society's target function. The instruments to be analyzed include the acreage subsidy targeting income support, the fertilizer tax, and the buffer-strip subsidy...

This paper employs a distribution-free statistical test suitable for comparisons based on dependent samples to analyse changes in health care financing distributions on Finnish data.

This paper studies optimal forest policies in an overlapping generations forest economy with one-sided altruism and public goods, where timber and monetary bequests can be made across generations. We extend the existing economics literature by demonstrating that timber bequests can dominate...

This paper analyzez socially optimal forest taxation when the government has a binding tax revenue requirement. In the Faustmann model the optimal design of forest taxation consists of non-distortionary taxes, such as site productivity tax, site value tax or profit tax.

This paper studies the impact of harvesting, property and profit taxes on private rotation age in an ongoing rotations model, where the private forest owner is interested not only in the present value of harvest revenue, but also in the amenity services provided by the forest stand.