Emission Taxes versus Other Environmental Policies
分析了反对使用排放税的四个常见论点，发现其中三个涉及信息不对称和非凸性的论点有道理，但关于失业的论点在模型中不成立，排放税反而比不增加收入的环保政策更有利于就业。
In the environmental policy of most countries, various forms of quotas and direct regulation are more important than environmental taxes. This paper addresses four arguments which are often given against the use of emission taxes. The three arguments related to information asymmetries and non‐convexities are valid in the sense that they point to complications in the use of environmental taxes. The fourth argument is related to the employment effects of different types of environmental policies in economies with unemployment. Although this argument is frequently used by politicians, the analysis provides no justification for it. On the contrary: in the model used, employment is higher with environmental taxes than with non‐revenue‐raising environmental policies.