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<Para ID="Par1">We investigate political economy determinants of energy tax differentiation across industries. Based on a theoretical common agency model, we show that differences in the ease of energy demand reductions across industries explain the pattern of tax differentiation: if the government is...</para>
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The topic of this paper is the question of what would be an optimum solution for a country or a greater region that wants to become a forerunner in the abatement of greenhouse gases. Tradeable emission permits are identified as being most beneficial from an environmental efficiency point of view...
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an expenditure basis, taxes on transport fuels are not regressive on average, as households in lower expenditure deciles … spend a lower proportion of their expenditure on taxes on transport fuels. While the unweighted 21-country average of the … proportion of income spent on transport fuel taxes is highest for households in the lowest and in the middle deciles, there is …
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This paper analyses the effects of energy taxation on the Austrian economy. Simulations are carried out with a linked input-output macromodel. The macroeconomic effects of an energy tax on economic growth, employment, the rate of inflation (change in the consumer price index), the budget deficit...
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We investigate whether or not the imposition of a common EC energy-tax will penalize more the poorer Southern European economies and if this will harm convergence at the EC level. We start by surveying briefly the existing studies and empirical evidence. Then we exploit the results obtained when...
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This chapter examines the economic and environmental effects of the interaction between regulated early closure of coal-fired power plants and new energy taxation rules on such plants using a dynamic general equilibrium model of the Portuguese economy. Simulation results show that regulated...
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