The incidence of taxes on consumers and producers plays a central role in evaluating energy tax policy, yet the … literature testing the main predictions of the tax incidence model is sparse. In this paper, we examine the pass-through rate of … describe several potential implications for tax policy, including tax breaks during peak driving season and during times of …

policies in the Indian car market. We simulate the effects of petrol and diesel fuel taxes and a diesel car tax, taking into … account their interactions with the pre-existing petrol fuel tax and car sales taxes. At levels sufficient to reduce total … about 4 (2010) Rs./L. However, at levels sufficient to reduce total fuel consumption by 2%, the increased petrol fuel tax …

Several policy makers and economists have proposed the adoption of a carbon tax in the United States. It is widely … recognized that such a tax in practice must take the form of a tax on the consumption of energy products such as gasoline … not be appropriate for evaluating the effectiveness of such a tax. First, most of these studies fail to address the …

tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers …

A tax on vehicle emissions can efficiently induce all of the cheapest forms of abatement. Consumers could drive less …, the technology is not yet available to measure and tax each car's total emissions. We thus investigate alternative … combination of a tax on gas, a tax on engine size , and a subsidy to PCE. In a model with heterogeneous consumers, the same …

policy uses a subsidy for clean R&D to hasten the transition to renewable energy and an increasing emission tax to control … residual fossil fuel use. A standalone clean research subsidy is more valuable than a standalone emission tax unless climate …

We propose a model consistent with two observations. First, the tax rates adopted by different countries are generally … their growth performance. In our model, the effects of taxation on growth are highly non-linear. Low or moderate tax rates … have a very small impact on long-run growth rates. But as tax rates rise, their negative impact on growth rises …

without commitment. This policy features a state-contingent macroprudential debt tax that is strictly positive at date t if a …

I examine Ronald Coase's criticism of standard regulatory and tax policies to address environmental externalities. I …. Regulation, tax, and Coasean exchange, such as through cap-and-trade regimes, are presented as substitutes, based on the relative … and tax policies, although these costs have received somewhat more attention with cap and trade regimes. Coasean exchange …

The paper studies the effects of tax policy on venture capital activity. Entrepreneurs pursue a single high risk … managerial advice. It considers dierential wage and capital income taxes, a comprehensive income tax, incomplete loss offset …