Optimal oil taxation in a small open economy

  1. Miguel Palacios, Carlos de
  2. Manzano, Baltasar
Libro:
IX encuentro de economía pública, hacienda y medio ambiente: [Vigo]. 7 y 8 de febrero de 2002

Editorial: Vigo : Universidad de Vigo, 2002

Ano de publicación: 2002

Congreso: Encuentro de Economía Pública (9. 2002. Vigo)

Tipo: Achega congreso

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Resumo

The international oil market has been very volatile over the past three decades. In industrialized economies, especially in Europe, taxes represent a large fraction of oil prices and governments do not seem to react to oil price shocks by using oil taxes strategically. The aim of this paper is to analyze optimal oil taxation in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of a small open economy that imports oil. We obtain that in general it is not optimal to distort the oil price paid by �rms with taxes. Extending the model in several ways this result could be reversed depending on environmental considerations and available �scal instruments.

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