European Green Deal: Environmental Taxation and Its Sustainability in Conditions of High Levels of Corruption

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F25840886%3A_____%2F21%3AN0000003" target="_blank" >RIV/25840886:_____/21:N0000003 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/47813059:19520/21:A0000255 RIV/00216224:14560/21:00124224

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/4/1981?type=check_update&version=1" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/4/1981?type=check_update&version=1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041981" target="_blank" >10.3390/su13041981</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

European Green Deal: Environmental Taxation and Its Sustainability in Conditions of High Levels of Corruption

Original language description

Despite environmental taxation's presumed advantages for long-term sustainable development goals, the problematic institutional conditions associated with high levels of corruption could become a significant obstacle undermining these efforts. Taking the example of the Czech Republic as a benchmark, the aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of corruption and its implications on the size of the official and the shadow economy in the sector burdened with environmental excise tax while confronting it with the sector not burdened with such tax. In terms of methodology, an extended DSGE (Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) model has been used. In the case of the shadow economy, the two sectors, burdened and not burdened with environmental taxes, followed a similar trend. However, concerning the official economy, this research found out that if environmental taxation is not applied, then lower, non-systemic corruption has a positive effect on the size of production as the effect of increased workforce motivation clearly dominates, suppressing the effect of reduced capital accumulation. Conversely, in the sector burdened with environmental taxation, corruption has an almost unequivocally negative effect on the production economy. In this sense, corruption has the capacity to limit the implementation of sustainable development policies including the European Green Deal, especially if it is systemic in nature.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

000624791000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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