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Six Distributional Effects Of Environmental Policy, Don Fullerton
Six Distributional Effects Of Environmental Policy, Don Fullerton
Don Fullerton
While prior literature has identified various effects of environmental policy, this note uses the example of a proposed carbon permit system to illustrate and discuss six different types of distributional effects: (1) higher prices of carbon-intensive products, (2) changes in relative returns to factors like labor, capital, and resources, (3) allocation of scarcity rents from a restricted number of permits, (4) distribution of the benefits from improvements in environmental quality, (5) temporary effects during the transition, and (6) capitalization of all those effects into prices of land, corporate stock, or house values. The note also discusses whether all six effects …
The Distribution Of Tax Burdens: Introduction, Don Fullerton, Gilbert Metcalf
The Distribution Of Tax Burdens: Introduction, Don Fullerton, Gilbert Metcalf
Don Fullerton
This paper summarizes important developments in tax incidence analysis over the past forty years. We mark the date of the beginning of modern tax incidence analysis with the publication of Harberger (1962) and discuss the relation of subsequent work to this seminal paper.