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Pigouvian

Pigouvian adjective: of or relating to Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), English economist.

Adjective

Pigouvian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), English economist.
    • This steady state distortion could be eliminated by appealing to a constant Pigouvian subsidy to labor, as is commonplace in the New Keynesian literature on optimal monetary policy.2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, Ji Zhang, “The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model”, in The Review of Economics and Statistics, volume 105, number 4, →DOI, (online appendix D), pages 931–947

Forms of Pigouvian

alternative formPigovian

Origin of Pigouvian

From Pigou + -v- + -ian.

Words formed from Pigouvian

Phrases with Pigouvian

Questions about Pigouvian

What does Pigouvian mean?
Pigouvian means of or relating to Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), English economist.
What part of speech is Pigouvian?
Pigouvian is an adjective.

Words near Pigouvian in the dictionary

  1. Pigou
  2. Pigou effect
  3. Pigou effects
  4. pigout
  5. pigouts
  6. Pigouvian
  7. Pigouvian tax
  8. Pigouvian taxes
  9. Pigovian
  10. Pigovian tax
  11. Pigovian taxes

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