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On The Trade-Offs Of Regulating Multiple Unpriced Externalities With A Single Instrument: Evidence From Biofuel Policies, Joel Landry, Antonio Bento
On The Trade-Offs Of Regulating Multiple Unpriced Externalities With A Single Instrument: Evidence From Biofuel Policies, Joel Landry, Antonio Bento
Antonio M. Bento
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Environmental Policy In The Presence Of An Informal Sector, Antonio Bento, Mark Jacobsen, Antung Liu
Environmental Policy In The Presence Of An Informal Sector, Antonio Bento, Mark Jacobsen, Antung Liu
Antonio M. Bento
We demonstrate how the presence of an untaxed informal sector can sharply lower the cost of environmental and energy tax policy. The mechanism involves substitution between formal and informal labor supply: energy or environmental taxes can improve the efficiency of the tax system by drawing activity into the formal sector. Our result applies to broad classes of corrective taxes and we first present it in a simple analytical framework. We then investigate its magnitude in a simulation model using the case of an energy tax in the U.S., where the informal sector is relatively small. Even so, we find the …
Designing Efficient Markets For Carbon Offsets With Distributional Constraints, Antonio Bento, Ravi Kanbur, Benjamin Leard
Designing Efficient Markets For Carbon Offsets With Distributional Constraints, Antonio Bento, Ravi Kanbur, Benjamin Leard
Antonio M. Bento
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Does Titling Matter? Evidence From Housing Markets In India, Antonio Bento, Somik Lall, Joel Landry
Does Titling Matter? Evidence From Housing Markets In India, Antonio Bento, Somik Lall, Joel Landry
Antonio M. Bento
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