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The transport sector is the only sector where carbon emissions continue to grow. This has led policy makers to propose … model has gasoline fuelled cars (GV) compete with battery electric cars (EV). Both types of cars have endogenous … of cars by 37,5% in 2030. We assess the cost-efficiency of three types of policy instruments evaluating production costs …
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Aiming to reduce the number of brown (polluting) cars on the road, several countries currently promote the purchase and … use of green (emission-free) cars through financial and non-financial incentives. We study how such incentives affect … consumers who continue to drive brown cars. Using a simple model, we analyze the effects of policy instruments such as …
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This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian rate due to such avoidance. The current US tax rate...
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. About one third of this cost is borne by public transport users. Most roads are never hypercongested, but some are …
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What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these...
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Based on data from a comprehensive benchmarking study on buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry, we show that more trust in a relationship is associated with higher idiosyncratic investment by suppliers and better part quality - but also with more competition among...
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We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement...
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The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
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Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
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influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …
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