Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Economides, George; … - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2010
We welfare rank different types of second-best environmental policy. The focus is on the roles of uncertainty and … uncertainty is economic, the best recipe is to levy taxes (on pollution or output) and use the collected tax revenues to finance … public abatement. However, when environmental uncertainty is the dominant source of extrinsic uncertainty, Kyoto-like rules …