This paper focuses on ihe rationale behind fiscal solidarity. It is argued that, while at the national level the main aim of regional policies is to downsize the cost of labor market policies, the motivation behind EU transfers is less straightforward. Here, regional assistance should rather be...

Bovenberg and Mooij (1994) and others pointed out that the optimal taxation on goods with external diseconomy both collects revenue and also corrects the external diseconomy by the goods, and thus it is said that the tax has gdouble dividendsh. The purpose of the present paper is to examine...

Dutch Abstract: Deze oratie van hoogleraar Edwin Woerdman, uitgesproken op 26 maart 2019 aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, bevat diverse hypothesen. Een nationale CO2-heffing bovenop het Europese emissiehandelssysteem leidt ertoe dat de samenleving straks meer betaalt voor emissiereducties die...

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