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The Ifo Industry Growth Accounting Database
Roehn, Oliver - 2007
In this paper we present a new database that allows deep industry-level growth accounting from 1991-2003. The database … allows for the first complete analysis of the German industry performance drivers based on the contributions of 12 asset … types in 52 different industries. The industry sources of productivity and output growth are crucial to the understanding of …
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Age, Wage and Productivity
van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2021
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
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Emissions Taxes and Abatement Regulation under Uncertainty
Christiansen, Vidar - 2013
We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of uncertainty about subsequent abatement cost, but can subsequently adjust output in the light of true marginal abatement cost. Where an emission tax is the only available instrument,...
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Can a Unilateral Carbon Tax Reduce Emissions Elsewhere?
Elliott, Joshua - 2013
One country that tries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may fear that other countries get a competitive advantage and increase emissions (“leakage”). Estimates from computable general equilibrium (CGE) models such as Elliott et al (2010a,b) indicate that 15% to 25% of abatement might be...
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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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Abatement Innovation in a Cournot Oligopoly : Emission Versus Output Tax Incentives
Aoyama, Naoto - 2016
This study compares energy and emission taxes used to control pollution and provide incentives for the adoption of an advanced abatement technology in a Cournot oligopoly. We examine multistage games where the government may intervene in order to maximize social welfare by setting an...
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Trade Liberalization and Environmental Taxation in Federal Systems
Fredriksson, Per G. - 2014
The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization leads to a decline in pollution taxes regardless of...
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Limit Pricing and the (In)Effectiveness of the Carbon Tax
Andrade de Sa, Saraly - 2014
Demand for oil is very price inelastic. Facing such demand, an extractive cartel induces the highest price that does not destroy its demand, unlike the conventional Hotelling analysis: the cartel tolerates ordinary substitutes to its oil but deters high-potential ones. Limit-pricing equilibria...
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Short-Term Price Effects of a Carbon Tax and Implications for Sectors Competitiveness in Small Open Economies
Gonne, Nicolas - 2021
Asymmetric climate policies are expected to distort the level-playing field regarding international trade, singularly to the detriment of small open economies. The paper develops a flexible method that provides essential input regarding the design of offsetting measures. It builds on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316128
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Sources of the German Productivity Demise - Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment
Eicher, Theo S. - 2007
dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth … accounting database that provides detailed industry-level investment information. While much attention has focused on the …) experienced negative TFP growth. This second major difference between the US and German industry performance explains Germany …
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