Inequality, Environmental Protection and Growth
Inequality, Environmental Protection and Growth
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不平等、环境保护与增长
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.235083
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发表时间：
2000
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通讯作者：
T. Renstrom
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作者：
L. Marsiliani;T. Renstrom
我们分析了在代议制民主国家中，收入分配如何影响环境政策和经济增长的严格程度。个人（能力不同）会经历两个时期，年轻时工作，年老时拥有资本。外部性是由污染因素引起的。污染税和资本所得税的收入被一次性重新分配给老百姓。在每个时间点，由多数选举产生的代表做出财政决策。在政治经济均衡中，更多的不平等（就分配的偏度而言）会产生较低的污染税、较高的资本税和较低的增长。
We analyse how, in representative democracies, income distribution influences the stringency of environmental policy and economic growth. Individuals (who differ in abilities) live for two periods, working when young and owning capital when old. Externalities are caused by a polluting factor. The revenue from pollution taxation, as well as capital-income taxation, is redistributed in a lump-sum to the old. A majority-elected representative takes the fiscal decision, at each point in time. In politico-economic equilibrium, more inequality (in terms of the skewedness of the distribution) yields a lower pollution tax, a larger capital tax, and lower growth.