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Environmental Taxes: Analytical Framework

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Environmental Policy Between Regulation and Market

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This overview of environmental taxes addresses the following questions:

  • What are environmental taxes?

  • How should revenues from environmental taxes be used?

  • Can an environmental tax be used to raise revenues?

  • Do legal issues matter for the last two questions?

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  1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Philippe Thalmann

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  1. Philippe Thalmann
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  1. Institut de Recherches Economiques et Régionales (IRER), Université de Neuchâtel, Pierre-à-Mazel 7, CH-2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Claude Jeanrenaud

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Thalmann, P. (1997). Environmental Taxes: Analytical Framework. In: Jeanrenaud, C. (eds) Environmental Policy Between Regulation and Market. Themenhefte Schwerpunktprogramm Umwelt. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9012-0_2

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9012-0_2

  • Publisher Name: Birkhäuser Basel

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-7643-5319-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-0348-9012-0

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