Ecological Economics, 2007,
60 (4), p. 685-687 ISSN 0921-8009
In a recent article, Bazin et al. (Bazin, D., Ballet, J., Touahri, D., 2004. Environmental responsibility versus taxation. Ecological Economics 49 (2), 129-134.) argue that taxation produces a crowding out effect on responsible behaviours. This crowding out effect is linked to the buffet syndrome, e.g. wherein an environmental tax is like a food buffet in that when you pay you could consume as much as you want. This article means to offer a perspective on this syndrome. it shows that this syndrome comes into play only in certain circumstances and that explicit policies may avoid it. in particular, the development of clean goods and technologies may avoid the buffet syndrome.
Plan de classement
Sciences du milieu [021]
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Economie générale / Macroéconomie [094]
