Ballet Jérôme auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access 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. specialized taxation responsibility buffet syndrome crowding out 021 094 60 4 685-687 2007 0921-8009 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010037886 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.10.006 0921-8009 [F B010037886] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010037886 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2007/04/010037886.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2007-04-27 2017-08-23 fdi:010037886 fre