Welfare Effects of the Tax Reforms in Two Vertically-Related Oligopolies with Environmental Externality
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본 논문에서는 산업구조상 수직적으로 연결된 과점산업들을 상정한 뒤, 상류 및 하류 산업의 과점으로 인해 발생하는 최적에 미달하는 산출수준, 하류부문의 투입물 사용에서 발생하는 비효율성, 그리고 상류부문 과점산업의 환경오염으로 인해 발생하는 네 가지 비효율성을 모두 고려할 수 있는 이론 모형으로 정식화하고, 정책당국이 세수중립적인 세제개혁을 통해서 어떻게 후생증진을 도모할 수 있는지 논증한다. 이를 위해서 상류부문이 생산하는 중간재와 하류부문이 생산하는 최종재에 각각 산출세를 부과하는 경우와 환경오염 자체에 피구稅를 부과하는 경우를 분리 상정하고, 각각의 후생변화를 수식으로 도출한다. 그 결과, 오염에 부과되는 생산요소간 대체를 가능하게하는 피구稅가 생산감축을 통한 환경오염감소를 허용하는 산출세에 비해서 더 효과적으로 후생을 증진시킬 수 있는 논거가 경쟁적 단일산업에서뿐만 아니라 수직적으로 연결된 과점산업구조하에서도 여전히 타당함을 증명하고, 세수중립적인 조세-보조금 정책조합을 이용한 조세개혁을 통해 정책당국이 후생증진을 도모할 수 있는 조건을 명시적으로 도출한다. 그 결과, 상하류 과점산업들의 한계적 이윤비용구조 및 한계적 환경오염의 상대적 크기가 각 산업에 대한 조세-보조금 정책조합의 방향을 결정하는데 매우 중요한 역할을 한다는 점을 밝힌다.
Abstract
In this paper, I examine the welfare effects of various revenue-neutral tax reforms in the case of two vertically-related oligopolies (downstream and upstream), where the upstream industry is polluting. I show analytically when and how government can improve welfare by initiating various tax reforms, regardless of either the feasibility of a lump sum transfer or the availability of a tax on pollution. The profit wedge that is the difference between the unit price and the unit cost and the marginal environmental damages (MED) becomes important to decide the direction of a tax reform and is crucial to determine the direction of welfare-improving tax-subsidy schemes. I also show that a tax on pollution (Pigouvian tax) is superior to a tax on intermediate good even in the case of vertically-related oligopolies, because the former always brings in positive welfare effect from the upstream firms’ input substitutability, which a tax on intermediate good cannot provide. Some policy implications for ‘reducing environmentally-harmful subsidies’ are also discussed.
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