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Environmental tax differentiation between industries and households - implications for efficiency and employment : a multi-sector intertemporal CGE analysis for Germany

Böhringer, Christoph - 2002

This paper investigates the economic impacts of environmental tax reforms designed to reach given emission reduction targets for the German economy. Our focus is on the efficiency and employment implications of alternative schemes for emission tax differentiation between the production sector...

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Taxation and unemployment : an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany

Böhringer, Christoph (contributor); … - 2002

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Decomposing general equilibrium effects of policy intervention in multi-regional trade models : method and sample application

Böhringer, Christoph; Rutherford, Thomas F. - 1999

Policy interventions in large open economies do not only affect the allocation of domestic resources but change international market prices. The change in international prices implies an indirect secondary burden or benefit for all trading countries. This secondary terms of trade effect may have...

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Decomposing the cost of Kyoto : a global CGE analysis of multilateral policy impacts

Rutherford, Thomas F.; Böhringer, Christoph - 2000

We decompose the economic implications of the Kyoto Protocol at the cross-country level, splitting the total economic impact for each region into contributions from its own emission abatement policy and those from other regions. Our analysis which is based on a large-scale computable general...

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Clean and productive? : evidence from the German manufacturing industry

Böhringer, Christoph; Moslener, Ulf; Oberndorfer, Ulrich; … - 2008

We analyze the productivity effects of environmental (green) investment as well as of environmental expenditures and energy expenditures. For this purpose, we follow a production function approach where we account for these investment and expenditure categories as inputs. Based on a panel...

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Economic effects of VAT reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Büttner, Thiess; … - 2006

quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has …

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The cost of phasing out nuclear power : a quantitative assessment of alternative scenarios for Germany

Böhringer, Christoph; Hoffmann, Tim; Vögele, Stefan - 2000

In the debate on the premature phase-out of nuclear power generation in Germany, there is an intense dispute on the …-out scenarios for Germany and its specific plant structure as well as plant-ownership by companies. However, the issues and …

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Carbon taxes and general joint implementation : an applied general equilibrium analysis for Germany and India

Böhringer, Christoph; Conrad, Klaus; Löschel, Andreas - 2000

Germany has committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions by 25 percent in 2005 as compared to 1990 emission levels … reduction possibilities elsewhere. One concrete option for Germany would be to enter joint implementation with developing … countries such as India where Germany pays emission reduction abroad rather than meeting its reduction target solely by domestic …

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Die Ökologische Steuerreform in Deutschland : ein umweltpolitisches Feigenblatt

Böhringer, Christoph; Schwager, Robert - 2002

We assess the design of the recent environmental tax reform in Germany. Based on fundamental welfare economics we argue …

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Assessing voluntary commitments : monitoring is not enough!

Böhringer, Christoph; Frondel, Manuel - 2002

This paper deals with a special type of voluntary approach to protect the environment, for example, that we would like to term voluntary commitment. Its major characteristic is that it represents a unilateral declaration without a decisively active role of regulators. In other words, voluntary...

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