Market Instruments for a Sustainable Economy: Environmental Fiscal Policy and Manifest Divergences

The introduction of environmental taxation policies had reached most European countries by the late 1990s. The pricing of activities considered harmful to the environment has given rise to the design of various economic instruments, such as environmental taxes, aimed at promoting environmental respo...

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Published in:The Review of policy research 2017-03, Vol.34 (2), p.255-269
Main Authors: Villar‐Rubio, Elena, Huete‐Morales, María‐Dolores
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Convergence
Economic models
Economics
Environmental policy
Environmental protection
Environmental tax
environmental taxes
European Union
Fiscal policy
Kyoto Protocol
Sustainability
Taxation
Taxes
unit roots
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Summary:The introduction of environmental taxation policies had reached most European countries by the late 1990s. The pricing of activities considered harmful to the environment has given rise to the design of various economic instruments, such as environmental taxes, aimed at promoting environmental responsibility and at enabling the Kyoto Protocol targets to be met, and at the same time generating a marked increase in tax revenues. The aim of this article is to examine whether convergence in environmental taxation has taken place among 27 EU countries, doing so by analyzing time series and applying unit root tests. Our findings show there has been no such convergence, overall, despite the existence of groups of countries with common patterns of behavior.
ISSN:1541-132X
1541-1338
DOI:10.1111/ropr.12211