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Efficiency Losses from Overlapping Economic Instruments in European Carbon Emissions Regulation

Böhringer, Christoph; Koschel, Henrike; Moslener, Ulf - 2006

Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states – especially in Germany – are subject to a diverse set of policies related to climate change. We analyse the potential efficiency losses from simultaneous application of emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative...

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Green technology policies versus carbon pricing: An intergenerational perspective

Rausch, Sebastian; Yonezawa, Hidemichi - 2023

Technology policy is the most widespread form of climate policy and is often preferred over seemingly efficient carbon pricing. We propose a new explanation for this observation: gains that predominantly accrue to households with large capital assets and that influence majority decisions in...

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Die Ökologische Steuerreform in Deutschland: Ein umweltpolitisches Feigenblatt

Böhringer, Christoph; Schwager, Robert - 2002

werden. Dann wird Umweltschutz dort geleistet, wo er am wenigsten kostet. Aus theoretischer Sicht können Abweichungen von … oder wenn Verzerrungen durch andere Steuern bestehen. Für die Praxis sind die aus der Theorie ableitbaren Empfehlungen zur … erheblich ab. Über weitreichende Ausnahmen wird die ökologische Lenkungswirkung stark abgeschwächt. Umweltschutz wird damit …

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Modelling of foreign trade in applied general equilibrium models: theoretical approaches and sensitivity analysis with the GEM-E3 model

Schmidt, Tobias F. N.; Koschel, Henrike - 1998

The specification of the world closure, i.e. the way of closing the domestic economy model by incorporating the external sector, is a crucial component for those models in which production and consumption is not specified endogenously for all countries. This paper looks explicitly at the...

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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. To achieve this goal, the government has recently launched an environmental tax reform which entails a continuous increase in energy taxes in conjunction with a...

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Environmental taxation and structural change in an open economy: a CGE analysis with imperfect competition and free entry

Böhringer, Christoph; Welsch, Heinz; Löschel, Andreas - 2001

The economic effects of environmental taxes depend on the market structure. Under imperfect competition with free entry and exit, environmental taxes have an impact on economies of scale by changing the number and size of firms. Whether economies of scale rise or fall in a particular industry...

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Energy taxes and employment: a do-it-yourself simulation model

Böhringer, Christoph; Ruocco, Anna; Wiegard, Wolfgang - 2001

Our paper deals with the welfare and employment effects of green tax reforms. In the first part we develop a flexible, interactive simulation model which is accessible under http://brw.zew.de. Users can specify their own green tax reforms or emission quotas and quantify welfare and employment...

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Green tax reform and employment: the interaction of profit and factor taxes

Boeters, Stefan - 2001

The employment effects of an ecological tax reform depend decisively on the presence of a profit tax and on the extent to which profits are taxed. This is shown in a model where firms have monopoly power on product markets and bargain over wages with unions on the labour market. In the setting,...

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Recycling of eco-taxes, labor market effects and the true cost of labor: a CGE analysis

Löschel, Andreas; Conrad, Klaus - 2002

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling has provided a number of important insights about the interplay between environmental tax policy and the pre-existing tax system. In this paper, we emphasize that a labor market policy of recycling tax revenues from an environmental tax to lower...

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In Search of a Rationale for Differentiated Environmental Taxes

Rutherford, Thomas F.; Böhringer, Christoph - 2002

Environmental tax schemes in OECD countries often involve tax rates differentiated across industrial, commercial and household sectors. In this paper, we investigate four potentially important arguments for these deviations from uniform taxation: pre-existing tax distortions, domestic equity...

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