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) emissions. This paper deals with emissions from oil combustion in transport, which accounts for about 40 percent of \co2 …\ emissions. In the benchmark specification, we find that six countries (accounting, in turn, for more than 40 percent of motor …-fuel GHG world emissions) would be undertaxing motor fuel. We evaluate the sensitivity of the results to the values of the …
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Climate change ranks high on the policy agenda of the European Union (EU) which considers itself as a leading force in the battle against anthropogenic climate change. The EU is committed to the objective of limiting the rise in global average temperature to no more than 2°C above...
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This paper explores how the costs of meeting given aggregate targets for pollution emissions change with the imposition … regulation.Using analytically and numerically solved equilibrium models, we compare the incidence and costs of emissions taxes … emissions tax than under the command-andcontrol policies (performance standards and mandated technologies) - a reflection of the …
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involving auctioned emissions allowances influences these policies' economic costs. Third, it addresses the question whether … between CO2 emissions-pricing instruments (carbon taxes and cap and trade) and other climate policy instruments. …
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China's resource tax reform, beginning with Xinjiang as a pilot area in June 2010, marked a new stage in the progression of China's resource tax system. Based on the 2007 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Xinjiang, constructed by ourselves, this paper takes a regional perspective on China's...
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carbon emissions and increase GDP. …
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This article provides an overview of specific and systemic applications of energy taxes and environmental (or green) tax reforms. To do so it combines a theoretical and empirical assessment of the literature, with anon-exhaustive description of the practice of these instruments and packages in...
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emissions directly, policy makers may tax gasoline even though per-gallon emissions vary across vehicles. This paper estimates …. First, we show that vehicle emissions are positively correlated with vehicle elasticities for miles traveled with respect to … performs very poorly in eliminating deadweight loss associated with vehicle emissions; in many years in our sample over 75 …
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réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Cet examen recommande en particulier de se détourner de l’imposition des … pour la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre et appuie la réforme de la taxation des véhicules. Ce Document de …
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Employing the by-production approach to modelling emission-generating technologies proposed in Murty, Russell, Levkoff [2012] and Murty [2015] and adapting the policy reform approach to taxation policy in public economics due to Feldstein [1975] and Guesnerie [1977], we propose a methodology to...
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