The regulation of hunting: A game population based tax on hunters

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Jens Abildtrup (jens.abildtrup@nancy.inra.fr) and Franck Jensen
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Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - Revue d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement, 2014, vol. 95, issue 3, pages 281-298

Abstract: This paper examines a tax/subsidy on hunters based on game population. The tax/subsidy is the difference between actual and optimal population multiplied by an individual, variable tax rate. The tax rate is, among other things, based on the difference between the marginal value of the game population to the hunter and the regulator and differences in user costs of the population. The paper shows that the population tax/subsidy secures a first-best optimum.

Keywords: Hunting; population tax; regulation; forest; externality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q23 Q28 D62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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