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Environmental regulation, taxes, and activism

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posted on 2023-03-22, 14:26 authored by Morakinyo AdetutuMorakinyo Adetutu, Kayode OdusanyaKayode Odusanya, Eleni Stathopoulou, Tom Weyman-Jones

Social activism is a burgeoning human response to pressing problems around the world, and nowhere is this response more apparent than in the ongoing global push back against environmental externalities. In this article, we explore—for the first time—whether there are degrees of activism that relate to degrees of regulatory stringency. Using data on environmental conflicts resulting from fossil fuel production across 68 countries over the period 1995–2014, we find that, for a given tax rate, a move from a lax to more stringent regime lowers the rate of environmental conflicts. These findings underscore the contingent role of policy stringency as a trigger for intense social movements.

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School

  • Loughborough Business School

Department

  • Business
  • Economics

Published in

Oxford Economic Papers

Volume

75

Issue

2

Pages

460-489

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© Oxford University Press

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Oxford University Press under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2022-05-24

Publication date

2022-06-14

Copyright date

2022

ISSN

0030-7653

eISSN

1464-3812

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Kayode Odusanya. Deposit date: 23 June 2022

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