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Investment with Uncertain Tax Policy : Does Random Tax Policy Discourage Investment?

Hassett, Kevin - 1994

In models with irreversible investment, increasing uncertainty about prices has been shown to increase the required rate of return (hurdle rate) and delay investment (e.g., Pindyck, 1988). One serious form of uncertainty faced by firms, a form that policy makers could conceivably control, is tax...

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The Role of Federal Taxation in the Supply of Municipal Bonds : Evidence From Municipal Governments

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 1991

This paper considers ways in which federal tax policy affects municipal asset and debt holdings. The tax treatment of municipal bonds and income creates an arbitrage opportunity for communities to issue tax exempt debt and invest in financial assets. I present evidence that suggests the rules in...

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Investment in Energy Infrastructure and the Tax Code

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2009

Federal tax policy provides a broad array of incentives for energy investment. I review those policies and construct estimates of marginal effective tax rates for different energy capital investments as of 2007. Effective tax rates vary widely across investment classes. I then consider...

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Tax Policies for Low-Carbon Technologies

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2009

key policy goals with subsidies as opposed to using taxes to raise the price of pollution-related activities. In …

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Analysis of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Tax Proposals

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2008

The U.S. Congress is considering a set of bills designed to limit the nation's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This paper complements the analysis by Paltsev et al. (2007) of cap-and-trade bills and applies the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model to carry out an analysis of...

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Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2008

Tax expenditures are a major source of support for energy related activities in the federal budget exceeding direct budget support for energy by a factor of nearly six. Focusing on the policy goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum consumption, I find these tax expenditures...

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Federal Tax Policy Towards Energy

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2006

On Aug. 8, 2005, President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (PL 109-58). This was the first major piece of energy legislation enacted since 1992 following five years of Congressional efforts to pass energy legislation. Among other things, the law contains tax incentives worth over $14...

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Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions

Marion, Justin - 2011

The incidence of taxes on consumers and producers plays a central role in evaluating energy tax policy, yet the … state gasoline and diesel taxes to retail prices, and importantly we estimate the dependence of pass-through on factors … constrained, and the constraint is plausibly unrelated to shifts in demand, the pass-through rate of fuel taxes declines. We …

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Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior

Li, Shanjun - 2012

Gasoline taxes can be employed to correct externalities from automobile use and to raise government revenue. Our … understanding of the optimal gasoline tax and the efficacy of existing taxes is largely based on empirical analysis of consumer … responses to gasoline price changes. In this paper, we directly examine how gasoline taxes affect gasoline consumption as …

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Ideology, Incidence and the Political Economy of Fuel Taxes : Evidence from the California 2018 Proposition 6

Epstein, Lucas; Muehlegger, Erich - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In 2018, California voters rejected Proposition 6, a ballot initiative that sought to repeal state gasoline taxes and … transportation and energy taxes than liberal areas, heterogeneity in the response to economic burdens has important implications for … the popular support for environmental taxes and the ongoing policy debate about how to finance future road infrastructure …

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