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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 … erheblich ab. Über weitreichende Ausnahmen wird die ökologische Lenkungswirkung stark abgeschwächt. Umweltschutz wird damit … die geringe Zahlungsbereitschaft der Wähler für Umweltschutz und die starke sektorale Konzentration von Anpassungskosten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298107
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Family Tax Splitting: A Microsimulation of its Potential Labour Supply and Intra-household Welfare Effects in Germany
Laisney, François; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam - 2003
This paper assesses the effects that an introduction of the French family splitting mechanism would have on German families' labour supply and intra-household consumption behaviour. We use simulated real world microdata created by means of a 'deterministic' collective labour supply model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297284
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Impact of tax rate cut cum base broadening reforms on heterogeneous firms: Learning from the German tax reform 2008
Finke, Katharina; Heckemeyer, Jost Henrich; Reister, Timo; … - 2010
base broadening. Its implications are thus not unique to Germany. Especially in view of the current economic crisis … heart of the academic and political debate in Germany and other countries. In this paper we present a new corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300509
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Impact of tax rate cut cum base broadening reforms on heterogeneous firms: Learning from the German tax reform 2008
Finke, Katharina; Heckemeyer, Jost H.; Reister, Timo; … - 2011
base broadening. Its implications are thus not unique to Germany. Especially in view of the current economic crisis … heart of the academic and political debate in Germany and other countries. In this paper we present a new corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304812
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297783
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Tax Progressivity and the Trade Union's Fallback-Option
Boeters, Stefan - 2002
When we analyse the labour market consequences of labour tax reforms in a model of firm-union wage bargaining, minor changes in the formulation of the union`s fallback option can have drastic effects. This paper compares two variants of the model in which either workers have no reemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298106
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Romania's development to a low-tax country: Effective corporate tax burden in Romania from 1992 to 2010 and Romania's current ranking among the eastern European member states
Spengel, Christoph; Lazar, Sebastian; Evers, Lisa; … - 2012
We trace back Romania's development to a low-tax country among the Member States of the European Union by analysing the major tax law changes in corporate taxation since 1992. We find that the significant reduction of the corporate income tax rate from 45% in 1992 to 16% since 2005 has not been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307853
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Substitution elasticities between capital, labour, material, electricity and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors
Koschel, Henrike - 2000
In this paper, substitutional relationships between capital, labour, material, electricity, and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors are estimated using a translog cost function. Estimates are based on a pooled time-series cross-sectional data sample for the period 1978-90 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297693
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Environmental tax differentiation between industries and households - implications for efficiency and employment: a multi-sector intertemporal CGE analysis for Germany
Böhringer, Christoph - 2002
This paper investigates the economic impacts of environmental tax reforms designed to reach given emission reduction targets for the German economy. Our focus is on the efficiency and employment implications of alternative schemes for emission tax differentiation between the production sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298113
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Differentiation of Green Taxes: A Political-Economy Analysis for Germany
Anger, Niels; Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - 2006
. Empirical data underpin our theoretical findings: A regression analysis of Germany?s green tax reform explains environmental tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297511