Environmental fiscal effort : spatial convergence within economic policy on taxation

Environmental fiscal effort, when compared with environmental fiscal pressure, represents a far more precise parameter when measuring a country’s environmental sacrifice given that it introduces GDP per capita as an analysis variable. This paper focuses on the analysis of convergence in environmenta...

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Autores: Villar Rubio, Elena, Quesada Rubio, José Manuel, Molina Moreno, Valentín
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repositorio:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/13726
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10272/13726
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Environmental taxes
Fiscal policy
Spatial autocorrelation
Moran’s index
Impuestos medioambientales
Política fiscal
Autocorrelación espacial
Índice de Moran
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Sumario:Environmental fiscal effort, when compared with environmental fiscal pressure, represents a far more precise parameter when measuring a country’s environmental sacrifice given that it introduces GDP per capita as an analysis variable. This paper focuses on the analysis of convergence in environmental fiscal effort amongst the EU-15 Member States between 1987 and 2008, employing, to this end, the techniques of sigma, beta and gamma convergence. On a complementary level, a spatial autocorrelation study is carried out in order determine whether or not the geographical proximity of countries has any bearing on similar fiscal effort.