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Anticipation, Tax Avoidance, and the Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand

Coglianese, John M. - 2016

Least-squares estimates of the response of gasoline consumption to a change in the gasoline price are biased toward … zero, given the endogeneity of gasoline prices. A seemingly natural solution to this problem is to instrument for gasoline … prices using gasoline taxes, but this approach tends to yield implausibly large price elasticities. We demonstrate that …

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Too Little Oil, Too Much Coal : Optimal Carbon Tax and When to Phase in Oil, Coal and Renewables

van der Ploeg, Rick - 2015

Our main message is that it is optimal to use less coal and more oil once one takes account of coal being a backstop which emits much more CO2 than oil. The way of achieving this is to have a steeply rising carbon tax during the initial oil-only phase, a less-steeply rising carbon tax during the...

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A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan

Fullerton, Don - 2014

calculate elasticities and to simulate the effects of alternative pollution control policies such as taxes on gasoline, on … taxes on cars or to taxes on gas or distance. Thus emissions are more affected by taxes on gasoline than by taxes on …

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The Role of Fiscal Instruments in Environmental Policy

Kosonen, Katri - 2009

Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change problem. This paper takes a policy-making perspective and...

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The Optimal Energy Mix in Power Generation and the Contribution from Natural Gas in Reducing Carbon Emissions to 2030 and Beyond

Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo; Longden, Thomas; … - 2021

This paper analyses a set of new scenarios for energy markets in Europe to evaluate the consistency of economic incentives and climate objectives. It focuses in particular on the role of natural gas across a range of climate policy scenarios (including the Copenhagen Pledges and the EU Roadmap)...

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Climate Policies : A Burden or a Gain?

Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - 2021

That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...

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EU-Type Carbon Emissions Trade and the Distributional Impact of Overlapping Emissions Taxes

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rudiger - 2021

The European Union fulfills its emissions reductions commitments by means of an emissions trading scheme covering some part of each member state's economy and by national emissions control in the rest of their economies. The member states also levy energy/emissions taxes overlapping with the...

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Carbon Pricing in the EU : Evaluation of Different EU ETS Reform Options

Brink, Corjan - 2015

This paper studies various options to support allowance prices in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), such as adjusting the cap, an auction reserve price, and fixed and variable carbon taxes in addition to EU ETS. We use a dynamic computable general equilibrium model that explicitly allows...

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Cross-Border Loss Offset Can Fuel Tax Competition

Haufler, Andreas - 2013

Following recent court rulings, cross-border loss compensation for multinational firms will likely be introduced, at least in Europe. This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a coordinated cross-border tax relief in a setting where multinational firms choose the size of a risky investment...

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The Efficient Combination of Taxes on Fuel and Vehicles

Bjertnæs, Geir H. - 2018

traffic. The tax on fuel is implemented to curb externalities linked to both consumption of fuel and road use. The heavier tax …

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