Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: A fundamental issues in designing any fiscal regime for non-renewable resources is the balance between rent taxes and royalties.This paper reviews the core issues that arise, in terms of both efficient rent extraction and correcting various market failures.Issues of asymmetric information, for instance, can rationalize using both instruments.The paper also shows that, even though they effectively involve the choice of distinct parameters at several dates, rent taxes are not subject to the time consistency problem that is central to the extractive industries, but royalties are (although time consistent royalty policy is efficient conditional on initial resource stocks).
Source: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Authors: Robin Boadway, Michael Keen
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1519829654