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Towards a European Constitution: Fiscal Federalism and the Allocation of Economic Competences
Stehn, Jürgen - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002
national policies cause strong spillovers (externalities) to other jurisdictions. Based on this approach, the paper proposes an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755141
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Capital mobility, tax competition, and lobbying for redistributive capital taxation
Lorz, Jens Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996
This paper analyzes the impact of international capital mobility on redistributive capital taxation and on lobbying … taxes or subsidies decline as international tax competition intensifies. Second, lobbying activities of certain interest … groups may explain international differences in the capital tax rate. Third, capital mobility may lead to declining lobbying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276384
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Fair, Optimal or Detrimental? Environmental vs. Strategic Use of Border Carbon Adjustment
Weitzel, Matthias; Hübler, Michael; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
We carry out a detailed sensitivity analysis of border carbon adjustment (rates) by applying a global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) GTAP7-based model. We find different incentives for the regions in the climate coalition to raise carbon-based border tax rates (BTAX) above the standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886854
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The WTO and Environmental Provisions: Three Categories of Trade and Environment Linkage
Khalilian, Setareh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566201
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Can Carbon Based Import Tariffs Effectively Reduce Carbon Emissions?
Hübler, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
We estimate CO2 implicitly contained in traded commodities based on the GTAP 7 data: While net carbon imports into the industrialized countries amount to 15% of their total emissions, net carbon exports of the developing countries amount to 12% of their total emissions, and net carbon exports of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559254
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The Euro’s Trade Effect under Cross-Sectional Heterogeneity and Stochastic Resistance
Herwartz, Helmut; Weber, Henning - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper investigates if the euro's effect on euro-area trade differs across trade sectors and across country pairs, and to what degree heterogeneity matters for estimating the aggregate euro effect. Time-varying latent variables, which are specific to each sector in each country pair, control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550503
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Emissions embodied in Chinese exports taking into account the special export structure of China
Weitzel, Matthias; Ma, Tao - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Quantification of CO2 emissions embodied in China's trade is important for an informed debate on whom to blame for the recent rise in Chinese emissions or the calculation of border carbon adjustments. Applying input output techniques, we calculate these emissions in (1) a standard model, (2) a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886856
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Trading hot-air : the influence of permit allocation rules, market power and the US withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol
Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005
After the conferences in Bonn and Marrakech it is likely that international emissions trading will be realized in the near future. Major influences on the permit market are the institutional detail, the participation structure and the treatment of hot-air. Different scenarios do not only differ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955660
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Marginal abatement cost curves in general equilibrium: The influence of world energy prices
Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
Marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) are a favorite instrument to analyze international emissions trading. This paper focusses on the question of how to define MACCs in a general equilibrium context where the global abatement level influences energy prices and in turn national MACCs. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955744
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The EU emissions trading scheme allowance prices, trade flows and competitiveness effects
Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004
The upcoming European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is one of the more controversial climate policy instruments. Predictions about its likely impact and its performance can at present only be made to a certain degree. As long as the National Allocations Plans are not finally settled the overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955995