Identifying Common Fallacies in the Choice of Environmental Taxes for Agricultural Pollution Control: The Absence of Transaction Costs and the Normality of Agricultural Pollutants

dc.creatorKampas, Athanasios
dc.date2017-04-01T19:19:42Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T03:54:42Z
dc.descriptionThe choice of environmental taxes is one of the central themes in policy design for agricultural pollution control, which dominates both empirical and theoretical research. This paper examines two assumptions very often employed in applied research, namely the absence of transaction costs and the normality of agricultural pollutants. Our results indicate that the well-known superiority of emission taxes over input taxes may not always be valid, when transaction costs are taken into account. Further more, the assumption of normal distributed agricultural pollutants overestimate the relative abatement costs.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.26422
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/26422/files/02020016.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/26422
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/541836
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/26422
dc.titleIdentifying Common Fallacies in the Choice of Environmental Taxes for Agricultural Pollution Control: The Absence of Transaction Costs and the Normality of Agricultural Pollutants
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