Browsing Working Papers by Author "Poterba, James M."

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    • Global warming : a public finance perspective 

      Poterba, James M. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1993)

    • Implementing environmental taxes on intemediate goods in open economies 

      Poterba, James M.; Rotemberg, Julio (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1994)
      Many proposed and actual environmental taxes are taxes on intermediate goods. These goods, such as fossil fuels, are typically tradable, and they are also used in the production of many tradable final goods. How should ...

    • Is the gasoline tax regressive? 

      Poterba, James M. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1990)
      Claims of the regressivity of gasoline taxes typically rely on annual surveys of consumer income and expenditures which show that gasoline expenditures are a larger fraction of income for very low income households than ...

    • Tax policy to combat global warming : on designing a carbon tax 

      Poterba, James M. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1991)
      This paper develops several points concerning the design and implementation of a carbon tax. First, if implemented without any offsetting changes in transfer programs, the carbon tax would be regressive. This regressivity ...