Bureaucratic tax-seeking: The Danish waste tax

Energy and Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 355-366

  Christoffersen, Henrik ^a   Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bureaucratic tax seeking; Common pool resource model; Green taxation; Troop leader; Waste tax

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS; NATURAL RESOURCES; TAXATION;

FISCAL POLICY; WASTE TAXES;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TAX; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0347662276     PISSN: 0958305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/095830502320268223     Document Type: Article

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