Trading Taxes vs. Paying Taxes to Value and Finance Public Environmental Goods

Bergstrom, John C.; Boyle, Kevin J.; Yabe, Mitsuyasu

doi:10.1023/b:eare.0000036779.58923.02

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“…In fact, respondents are more inclined to pay for a noise policy that is financed reallocating a quota of the resources normally destined to other public services than for one financed with a new local tax -see Table 5. This is an important result that confirms and extends to CE the results presented by Bergstrom et al (2004) in the case of a CV study to assess ground water protection policy in Georgia and Maine.…”

Section: Ce Estimation Resultssupporting

confidence: 85%

“…The coefficient of PVTAX_P is in fact negative and statistically significant, resulting in a lower evaluation of those noise policies financed via the introduction of a new local tax by 37 percent -see Table 5. As in Bergstrom et al (2004) in the field of ground water protection policies, the empirical results of our case study indicate that people in our sample were willing to pay more for noise reduction using a tax reallocation financing mechanism as compared to a special tax financing mechanism. In addition to Bergstrom et al (2004), whose CV study does not specify the bundle of public services to be traded off for environmental goods, in our survey we used caution to describe them to the respondents and referred to two types of public services: public administration and public transport.…”

Section: Welfare Analysis and Policy Discussionmentioning

confidence: 67%

“…As in Bergstrom et al (2004) in the field of ground water protection policies, the empirical results of our case study indicate that people in our sample were willing to pay more for noise reduction using a tax reallocation financing mechanism as compared to a special tax financing mechanism. In addition to Bergstrom et al (2004), whose CV study does not specify the bundle of public services to be traded off for environmental goods, in our survey we used caution to describe them to the respondents and referred to two types of public services: public administration and public transport. The former and the latter one being perceived by the residents of the Province of Trento, respectively, as relatively important and very much important.…”

Section: Welfare Analysis and Policy Discussionmentioning

confidence: 67%

“…We therefore explained that the local administration was considering two alternative project financing strategies. Following, Bergstrom et al (2004), the first one consisted in reallocating the public budget for 2006, and transferring on the noise project the financial resources usually allocated on some other public service, as described in survey stated, without burdening the households with any additional local tax. The second option was to introduce a new local tax una tantum for the year 2006, set according to the household income level.…”

Section: Ce Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Comparing Tax and Tax Reallocations Payments in Financing Rail Noise Abatement Programs: Results from a CE Valuation Study in Italy

Nunes

Travisi

2006

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Comparing Tax and Tax Reallocations Payments in Financing Rail Noise Abatement Programs: Results from a CE valuation study in Italy SummaryThe paper examines the use of choice experiments (CE) to assess the economic value of alternative rail noise reduction interventions on the so-called Brennero railway, Italy. The novelty of this paper is threefold. To our knowledge, this is the first study on the valuation of noise conducted in Italy and it is the first example of CE applied in the field of rail noise valuation. Second, we consider not only the economic value assessment of noise reduction but also how this reduction is achieved, ranging from policy instruments such as barriers or train technology. Third, the paper provides an original contribution in the valuation literature since we test formally the econometric robustness of the CE estimates under three payment vehicles. In fact, we consider (a) a special regional tax, (b) reallocation of financial resource within the provincial budget on the public transport sector, and (c) reallocation of financial resource of the provincial budget from the administration and entertainment sector.

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Section: Ce Estimation Resultssupporting

confidence: 85%

Section: Welfare Analysis and Policy Discussionmentioning

confidence: 67%

Section: Welfare Analysis and Policy Discussionmentioning

confidence: 67%

Section: Ce Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Comparing Tax and Tax Reallocations Payments in Financing Rail Noise Abatement Programs: Results from a CE Valuation Study in Italy

Nunes

Travisi

2006

SSRN Journal

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“…This result is consistent with the results of Swallow & McGonagle (2006), who found that willingness to transfer public funds was over 3 times as great as WTP for land conservation programs funded by tax increases. Bergstrom et al (2004) also found substantially higher WTP for tax payment reallocations relative to special new taxes for groundwater protection programs. While this is not surprising, Bergstrom et al (2004) note that there could be potentially important welfare implications if tax reallocations were used to finance conservation efforts instead of new taxes, depending on the nature of respondent heterogeneity.…”

Section: Willingness To Pay For Conservation Program Attributesmentioning

confidence: 97%

National values for regional aquatic species at risk in Canada

Rudd¹

2009

Endang. Species. Res.

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The goal of the present analysis was to assess the geographic scope and magnitude of non-market values for 6 regional aquatic species listed, or being considered for listing, as endangered under the Canadian Species at Risk Act. I used latent class analysis to partition responses from a national Internet-based survey that asked respondents about their preferred conservation program from amongst scenarios that varied according to target species (Atlantic salmon Salmo salar, Atlantic whitefish Coregonus huntsmani, leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea, North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis, porbeagle shark Lamna nasus, and white sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus), program performance, cost, and method of payment. The large sample of the Canadian public (n = 2761) cleaved into 9 distinct segments that varied significantly in their patterns of preferences. Mean implicit prices, calculated using regression coefficients, ranged as high as CAD $85.99 annually for Atlantic salmon Salmo salar. There was strong support for programs that had a high probability of success even though increases in population abundance and improvements in listing status were each only significant for 4 of the 9 segments. I also found evidence that members of 1 segment were unwilling or unable to make tradeoffs between the program attributes (i.e. they exhibited 'lexicographic preferences'). Members from all 9 segments were distributed across Canada, implying that the proper geographic scope of benefits assessments should be expanded beyond the regions in which regional aquatic species at risk actually occur. These findings should help ensure that the broad societal benefits of conservation are captured when making endangered species listing and investment decisions in Canada in the future.

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Preferences for policy attributes and willingness to pay for water quality improvements under uncertainty

Mullen

Calhoun

Colson

2017

Water Resources Research

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When exploring environmental policy options, sometimes neither the current state of the environmental good being analyzed nor the effectiveness of the proposed policy is known with certainty. This is the case with privately owned, residential, onsite wastewater treatment systems (septic systems)—there is ample evidence that they can contribute to water quality impairment, but their contribution is generally stochastic in nature and the efficacy of technological solutions is uncertain. Furthermore, the benefits of ameliorating water quality impairments are public in nature. Septic system owners are legally responsible for maintaining their systems, but requiring them to upgrade otherwise properly functioning tanks is outside the scope of water quality regulations. An incentive structure is necessary to induce private homeowners to invest in septic upgrades that deliver both private benefits in addition to the positive externality for the wider public and environment. The question for policy makers is how these private incentives should be financed, and whether public support can be garnered. Results of a choice experiment in Gwinnett County, Georgia, accounting for both sources of uncertainty—the current state of water quality and the efficacy of the intervention—in the design of water quality policy are presented. We find baseline water quality conditions and policy efficacy significantly affect public support for a policy transferring public funds to private homeowners, in terms of both sentiment and willingness to pay. The manner in which costs are shared across stakeholders also affects the selection of a policy option, but not willingness to pay for it.

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Trading Taxes vs. Paying Taxes to Value and Finance Public Environmental Goods

Cited by 57 publications

References 15 publications

Comparing Tax and Tax Reallocations Payments in Financing Rail Noise Abatement Programs: Results from a CE Valuation Study in Italy

Comparing Tax and Tax Reallocations Payments in Financing Rail Noise Abatement Programs: Results from a CE Valuation Study in Italy

National values for regional aquatic species at risk in Canada

Preferences for policy attributes and willingness to pay for water quality improvements under uncertainty

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