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Taxation, Industry Integration and Production Efficiency

Moriconi, Simone - 2016

economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate … production units. The present paper investigates the effects of taxation on production efficiency, accounting for the … effect of this "tax induced organizational change" on production efficiency ultimately depends on the characteristics of the …

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Market Liberalization in the European Natural Gas Market - The Importance of Capacity Constraints and Efficiency Differences

Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles; van … - 2021

In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...

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The Fossil Episode

Hassler, John; Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021

We build a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model with one-sided substitutability between fossil carbon and biocarbon. One shock only, the discovery of the technology to use fossil fuels, leads to a transition from an initial pre-industrial phase to three following phases: a pure fossil...

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Faustmann and the Climate

Hoel, Michael; Holtsmark, Bjart; Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine - 2021

The paper presents an adjusted Faustmann Rule for optimal harvest of a forest when there is a social cost of carbon emissions. The theoretical framework takes account of the dynamics and interactions of forests’ multiple carbon pools and assumes an infinite time horizon. Our paper provides a...

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Incentive Schemes for Local Government : Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England

Lockwood, Ben - 2011

, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency of service provision. We test these predictions using a difference in … not subject to the same CPA regime. To do this, we construct original indices of service quality and efficiency, using … efficiency indices. There is evidence of heterogeneous effects of CPA on efficiency, with some evidence that CPA impacted more on …

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Income Taxation, Tuition Subsidies, and Choice of Occupation : Implications for Production Efficiency

Bjertnæs, Geir H. - 2006

The desirability for production efficiency is re-examined in this study, where agents choose occupation based on … lifetime income net of tuition costs. Efficient revenue raising implies that the government should trade off efficiency in … production for efficiency in intertemporal consumption, as capital income is taxed in optimum. The subsequent wage difference …

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Efficiency Potential and Efficiency Variation in Norwegian Lower Secondary Schools

Borge, Lars-Erik - 2006

The paper performs an efficiency analysis of the lower secondary school sector in Norway. The efficiency potential is … background) as outputs. The analysis of the determinants of efficiency indicates that a high level of municipal revenue, a high … efficiency. The negative effects of the share of socialists and party fragmentation seem to reflect both higher resource use and …

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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Revisited in African Countries

Eggoh, Jude Comlanvi - 2014

The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for 21 African countries over the period from 1970 to 2006, using recently developed panel cointegration and causality tests. The countries are divided into two groups:...

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Energy Use and Economic Growth in Africa : A Panel Granger-Causality Investigation

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi - 2014

We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is...

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The Effectiveness of Taxing Carbon Content of Energy Consumption

Sen, Suphi - 2016

We estimate the long-run effect of a uniform carbon tax on energy consumption by using a new and unique dataset in which effective tax rates of OECD countries are calculated in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. The effective tax rates account for the widely discussed tax deductions for specific...

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