Optimal taxation in the case of environmental and ecological externalities. An application to Belgium with an integrated micro-macro modelling approach. KU Leuven
The research builds on and extends the literature on optimal taxation with externalities, e.g. climate change. Moreover, as some distributional concerns related to taxing climate externalities are related to impacts on the labour market, namely by reducing labour demand and wages for specific types of employees, I include general equilibrium impacts in the analysis. As a result I am able to analyse whether the introduction of a carbon tax ...