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Fiscal Federalism and Tax Administration: Evidence from Germany

Bönke, Timm; Jochimsen, Beate; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

In many federations, fiscal equalization schemes soften fiscal imbalances across the member states. Such schemes usually imply that the member states internalize only a small fraction of the additional tax revenue from an expansion of the state-specific tax bases, while the remainder of the...

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Is There Still a Case for Merchant Interconnectors?: Insights from an Analysis of Welfare and Distributional Aspects of Options for Network Expansion in the Baltic Sea Region

Gerbaulet, Clemens; Weber, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

, we analyze the impact of profit-maximizing merchant transmission investment as compared to welfare-maximizing regulated … transmission investment. We apply the model to the Baltic Sea region, which has in the past been subject to rapid interconnector … development and still would benefit from increased interconnection. We obtain stable results indicating that merchant investment …

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Development Scenarios for the North and Baltic Sea Grid: A Welfare Economic Analysis

Egerer, Jonas; Kunz, Friedrich; Hirschhausen, Christian von - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

capacities, and much of the investment will have to be regulated to come about. We also find strong interdependencies between …

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Determinants of Trade with Solar Energy Technology Components: Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis?

Groba, Felix - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

Studies analyzing renewable energy market development usually investigate additional capacity or investment …

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Trade and the Environment: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity

Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalisation on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced not only by the long-established scale effect, but also by a reallocation effect resulting from an...

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Ecological Labelling in North-South Trade

Althammer, Wilhelm; Dröge, Susanne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

We investigate in a horizontal product differentiation model with North-South trade the implications of a home bias in consumers' demand for labelled goods. We compare mutual recognition and international harmonisation of ecological labels with respect to firms' profits and welfare. Northern...

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Chinese Renewable Energy Technology Exports: The Role of Policy, Innovation and Markets

Cao, Jing; Groba, Felix - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Chinese companies have become major technology producers, with the largest share of their output exported. This paper examines the development of solar PV and wind energy technology component (WETC) exports from China and the competitive position of the country`s renewable energy industry. We...

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Global Warming, Technological Change and Trade in Carbon Energy: Challenge or Threat?

Stephan, Gunter; Müller-Fürstenberger, Georg - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

Is it possible to combat global climate change through North-to-South technology transfer even without a global climate treaty? Or do carbon leakage and the rebound effect imply that it is possible to take advantage of technological improvements under the umbrella of a global arrangement only?...

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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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Increasing Block Tariffs in the Water Sector: An Interpretation in Terms of Social Preferences

Meran, Georg; Hirschhausen, Christian von - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

Many developing countries around the world apply progressive water tariffs, often structured in the form of discretely increasing block tariffs (IBTs). These tariffs have been criticized in the welfare economic literature due to their perceived inefficiency: many of the prices charged under IBTs...

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