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Fiscal policy and CO2 emissions of new passenger cars in the EU
Gerlagh, Reyer; Bijgaart, Inge van den; Nijland, Hans; … - 2015 - This version: 16 January 2015
To what extent have national fiscal policies contributed to the decarbonisation of newly sold passenger cars? We construct a simple model that generates predictions regarding the effect of fiscal policies on average CO2 emissions of new cars, and then test the model empirically. Our empirical...
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2012
Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687266
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Spatial policies and land use patterns : optimal and market allocations
Kyriakopoulou, Efthymia; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2014
-off between the agglomeration and dispersion forces, in the form of pollution from stationary forces, environmental policy …
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A fuel tax decomposition when local pollution matters
Gauthier, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny - 2018
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Regulating the environmental consequences of preferences for social status within an evolutionary framework
Sartzetakis, Eftichios Sofokles; Xepapadeas, Anastasios; … - 2015
Taking as given that we are consuming too much and that overconsumption leads to environmental degradation, the present paper examines the regulator's choices between informative advertisement and consumption taxation. We model overconsumption by considering individuals that care about social...
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Are environmentally related taxes Effective?
Miller, Sebastián; Vela, Mauricio - 2013
taxes contribution to reducing pollution and improving environmental quality has not been fully explored. This paper …
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The strategic use of abatement by a polluting monopoly
Martín Herrán, Guiomar; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2016
larger steady-state pollution stock. Moreover, the increase of environmental damages because of the increase in the pollution …
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A user's guide for economic instruments in domestic and international climate change policy : what role can they play in a Belgian climate change strategy?
Van Ierland, W. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Second best environmental policies under uncertainty
Antoniou, Fabio; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Koundouri, Phoebe - 2010
local pollutant. Governments use environmental policies, i.e., an emissions standard or a tax, to control pollution and for … demand, the cost of abatement and the damage caused from pollution. Under these modes of uncertainty we derive sufficient … Policy ; Pollution ; Choice of Policy Instrument ; Uncertainty …
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Emission taxes, feed-in subsidies and the investment in a clean technology by a polluting monopoly
García-Alaminos, Ángela; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2019
The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the same good with a technology that employs a polluting input and a clean technology. The second-best tax and subsidy are calculated solving a two-stage policy game between the...
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