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Taxes Versus Cap-and-Trade in Climate Policy When Only Some Fuel Importers Abate

Strand, Jon - 2010

I study climate policy choices for a “policy bloc” of fuel-importers, when a “fringe” of other fuel importers have no climate policy, fuel exporters consume no fossil fuels, and importers produce no such fuels. The policy bloc and exporter blocs act strategically in fossil fuel markets....

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The Carbon-Budget Approach to Climate Stabilization : Cost-Effective Subglobal Versus Global Action

Eichner, Thomas - 2010

Scientific expertise suggests that mitigating extreme world-wide climate change damages requires avoiding increases in the world mean temperature exceeding 2° Celsius. To achieve the two degree target, the cumulated global emissions must not exceed some limit, the so-called global carbon...

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Why Does Environmental Policy in Representative Democracies Tend to Be Inadequate? A Preliminary Public Choice Analysis

Kollmann, Andrea - 2010

. To identify the reasons for this insufficient implementation in the past decade the Public Choice theory is used. The …

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Search Costs and Corporate Income Tax Competition

Konrad, Kai A. - 2010

This paper studies corporate tax competition if it is costly to learn some of the elements that determine the effective tax burden. Search cost may, but need not, eliminate the tax competition pressure. The outcome depends on the boundaries of tax rate and tax base choices. Search cost can...

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How Should Financial Intermediation Services Be Taxed?

Lockwood, Ben - 2010

This paper considers the optimal taxation of savings intermediation and payment services in a dynamic general equilibrium setting, when the government can also use consumption and income taxes. When payment services are used in strict proportion to final consumption, and the cost of...

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The Welfare Gains of Age Related Optimal Income Taxation

Bastani, Spencer - 2010

Using a calibrated overlapping generations model we quantify the welfare gains of an age dependent income tax. Agents face uncertainty regarding future abilities and can by saving transfer consumption across periods. The welfare gain of switching from an age-independent to an age-dependent...

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Even Small Trade Costs Restore Efficiency in Tax Competition

Becker, Johannes - 2010

We introduce transport cost of trade in products into the classical Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) model of capital tax competition. It turns out that even small levels of transport cost lead to a complete breakdown of the seminal result, the underprovision of public goods. Instead, there is a...

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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that...

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State Corporation Income Taxation - An Economic Perspective on Nexus

Wildasin, David E. - 2010

Acting in the interest of their residents, within limits imposed by Federal statute and by the Constitution, states have incentives to impose taxes on the profits of corporations owned by nonresidents. This paper presents a model within which a state, using an apportionment formula that includes...

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Rank Dependent Utility, Tax Evasion and Labor Supply

Eide, Erling - 2010

payers act according to some non-expected utility theory, and (2) Individual ethical norms and social stigma induce people … subjective probabilities of being penalised according to the rank dependent utility theory, and (2) Tax payers' beliefs about … utility theory. The model explains data 53% better than pure random choices and predicts hours worked in the regular economy …

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