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An alternative way to model merit good arguments

Schroyen, Fred
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2002
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Abstract
Besley (1988) uses a scaling approach to model merit good arguments

in commodity tax policy. In this paper, I question this approach on the grounds

that it produces ’wrong’ recommendations—taxation (subsidisation) of merit (demerit)

goods—whenever the demand for the (de)merit good is inelastic. I propose

an alternative approach that does not suffer from this deficiency, and derive the

ensuing first and second best tax rules, as well as the marginal cost expressions to perform tax reform analysis.
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Revised October 2003
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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Discussion paper
2002:21

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