reduced by roughly 25 percent or taxes will need to be increased by about 33 percent, or some combination to avoid benefit …

Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption … steeply declines with income, so that richer households pay a substantially larger share of their income in taxes. Our …

whole tax system is affected by the externalities caused by the consumption of positional goods, notably also the taxes on …This articles studies the optimal tax mix (taxes on income and commodities) under asymmetric information in a two …

multi-externality setting. While taxes on income and on 'clean' commodities are still unaffected by the externalities, which …This paper extends the previous literature on optimal redistributive taxation in the presence of externalities to a … implications for the optimal Pigouvian tax rates. In general the Pigouvian parts of taxation depend also on the externalities …

to play that role, getting the energy prices right is crucial because this sends clear signals to both producers and … consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China’s energy pricing reform since 1984 has been moving away from the prices … pace and scale of the reform differ across energy types. This article discusses the evolution of price reforms for coal …

competitiveness. The 2014 energy and climate package and its 2030 targets were therefore not only comparably unambitious but also … policies, the thesis especially concentrates on where Poland and its coal-based energy system have stood as things developed … place, finding that the conventional energy sector has a tremendous impact on policy making. While Poland absorbed the …

This paper analyzes the effect of environmental policies on the direction of energy innovation across countries over …