Influence of clime conditions on tax revenues

Mutascu, Mihai (2012): Influence of clime conditions on tax revenues. Forthcoming in:

Abstract

The paper investigates the effects of clime conditions on collected tax revenues, based on a panel-model approach. The data-set includes 123 countries and covers the period 1996-2010. The main results show that the assumed function is linear, the clime conditions heaving a significant impact on collected tax revenues. Overall, the collected tax revenues tend to increase under cool, polar or boreal climate. The paper extends the literature in the field by focusing on the clime implications in economy and finds new evidences regarding the determinants of collected tax revenues.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Climate conditions, Tax revenues, Panel-model, Effects, Tax policy
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H20 - General; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C2 - Single Equation Models ; Single Variables > C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming

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