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The Macroeconomic Impact of Europe’s Carbon Taxes
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2020
Policy makers often express concern about the impact of carbon taxes on employment and GDP. Focusing on European countries that have implemented carbon taxes over the past 30 years, we estimate the macroeconomic impacts of these taxes on GDP and employment growth rates for various specifications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481343
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Tax Distortions and Global Climate Policy
Babiker, Mustafa H. - 2002
We consider the efficiency implications of policies to reduce global carbon emissions in a world with pre-existing tax … environmental taxes are returned in a lump sum fashion, need not hold in a world with multiple distortions. We then present a large …-scale computable general equilibrium model of the world economy with distortionary taxation. We use this model to evaluate a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469575
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The Macroeconomic Effects of a Carbon Tax to Meet the U.S. Paris Agreement Target : The Role of Firm Creation and Technology Adoption
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze the quantitative labor market and aggregate effects of a carbon tax in a framework with pollution externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of adjustment influenced by carbon taxes: (1) firm creation and (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533344
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Five Myths About Carbon Pricing
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While carbon pricing, in general, and carbon taxes, in particular, are popular with economists, they are subject to considerable misunderstanding among policy makers and the public. In this paper I consider and refute five myths about carbon taxes: 1) that a carbon price will hurt economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250122
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What is the Risk of European Sovereign Debt Defaults? Fiscal Space, CDS Spreads and Market Pricing of Risk
Aizenman, Joshua - 2011
We estimate the pricing of sovereign risk for sixty countries based on fiscal space (debt/tax; deficits/tax) and other … and economically important determinants of market-based sovereign risk. Although the explanatory power of fiscal space … emergence of TED spread as a key pricing factor. However, risk-pricing of the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries is not …
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Fiscal Stimulus and Commercial Bank Lending Under COVID-19
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Spiegel, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate the implications of extra-normal government spending under the COVID-19 pandemic for commercial bank lending growth between 2019Q4 and 2020Q4 in a large sample of over 3000 banks from 71 countries. We control for pre-pandemic structural factors, bank characteristics and government...
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Intrinsic Openness and Endogenous Institutional Quality
Jiao, Yang - 2017
Quality of public institutions has been recognized as a crucial determinant of macroeconomic outcomes. We propose that a country's intrinsic level of openness (due to population size, geography, or exogenous trade opportunities) affects its incentives in investing in better institutions. We...
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When Is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage?
Ju, Jiandong - 2008
Does finance follow the real economy, or the other way around? This paper unites the two competing schools of thought in a general equilibrium framework. Our key result is that there are threshold effects defined by a set of deep institutional parameters (cost of financial intermediation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464662
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Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization
Ju, Jiandong - 2007
the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465505
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Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2010
Many distributional analyses of carbon pricing focus on the uses-side incidence of carbon pricing. This is the differential burden resulting from heterogeneity in consumption across households. Once one allows for sources-side incidence (i.e. differential impacts of changes in real factor...
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