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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 … reduction possibilities elsewhere. One concrete option for Germany would be to enter joint implementation with developing … countries such as India where Germany pays emission reduction abroad rather than meeting its reduction target solely by domestic …

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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...

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Combining international cap-and-trade with national carbon taxes

Heindl, Peter; Wood, Peter J.; Jotzo, Frank - 2014

This paper examines the effects of combining an international cap-and-trade scheme with national carbon taxes. We consider a two-country stochastic partial equilibrium model with log-normally distributed uncertainty. The situation is analogous to the situation where European countries impose...

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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

(loses) in comparative advantage. We use a computable general equilibrium model for Germany to examine the effects of a …

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In search of a rationale for differentiated environmental taxes

Böhringer, Christoph; Rutherford, Thomas F. - 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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Self-financing tax/subsidy mechanisms in environmental regulation with many firms

Breitscheidel, Jörg (contributor) - 2005

We consider the application of self-financing tax/subsidy mechanisms in environmental regulation and explore the question whether these mechanisms yield strong investment incentives in a market with many firms under Cournot competition. It turns out that the tax/subsidy mechanism with the...

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From less promising to green? : technological opportunities and their role in (green) ICT innovation

Cecere, Grazia; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2015

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative; (2) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas...

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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations

Steiner, Viktor - 1996

whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …

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Price indexes for PC database software and the value of code compatibility

Harhoff, Dietmar; Moch, Dietmar - 1996

matched-model price indexes for personal computer database software. Our database covers the price development in Germany from …

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Robust GMM estimation of an Euler equation investment model with German firm level panel data

Janz, Norbert - 1997

In this paper the outlier robust GMM panel data estimator recently proposed by Lucas, van Dijk, and Kloek (1994) is applied to an Euler equation model of firm investment behaviour with imperfectly competitive product markets for a small panel of German nonfinancial stock companies. Plots for...

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