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Do gasoline prices converge in a unified Europe with non-harmonized tax rates?

Dreher, Axel; Krieger, Tim - 2004

The paper presents univariate and panel unit root tests for gasoline and oil price convergence over the last decade. We …

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Do gasoline prices converge in a unified Europe with non-harmonized tax rates?

Dreher, Axel; Krieger, Tim - 2005

The paper presents univariate and panel unit root tests for gasoline and oil price convergence over the last decade. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285905

Car User Taxes, Quality Characteristics and Fuel Efficiency: Household Behavior and Market Adjustment

de Borger, Bruno; Rouwendal, Jan - 2012

We study the impact of fuel taxes and kilometer taxes on households' choices of vehicle quality, on their demand for kilometers driven, and on fuel consumption. Moreover, embedding this information in a model of the car market, we analyze the implications of these taxes for the opportunity costs...

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Taxation and development: A review of donor support to strengthen tax systems in developing countries

Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge - 2013

Recent years have seen a growing interest among donors on taxation in developing countries. This reflects a concern for domestic revenue mobilization to finance public goods and services, as well as recognition of the centrality of taxation for growth and redistribution. The global financial...

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Tax Policy and CO2 Emissions – An Econometric Analysis of the German Automobile Market

Vance, Colin; Mehlin, Markus - 2009

In addition to efficiency standards and consumer information, car-related taxes constitute one of three pillars of the European Commission¿s strategy to reduce CO2 emissions from passenger cars. A longstanding question concerns the effectiveness of such taxes in determining the car-purchasing...

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Optimum Tariffs and Exhaustible Resources: Theory and Evidence for Gasoline

Daubanes, Julien; Leinert, Lisa - 2012

optimum-tariff tax component in explaining national gasoline taxes. We find strong evidence that this component plays a … crucial role in countries’ taxation of gasoline. …

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Do High Oil Prices Matter? – Evidence on the Mobility Behavior of German Households

Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - 2008

Focusing on travel survey data from Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of automobile travel, with the specific aim of quantifying the effects of fuel prices and fuel economy. The analysis is predicated on the notion that car mileage is a two-stage decision process, comprising the...

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Verschwörung oder Marktwirtschaft? Was bestimmt die Benzinpreise?

Kasten, Christiane; Klepper, Gernot - 2001

Die starken Preissteigerungen für Benzin in den letzten 2 Jahren sind häufig auf mangelnden Wettbewerb zurückgeführt …

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Is arbitrage tying the price of ethanol to that of gasoline? Evidence from the uptake of flexible-fuel technology

Salvo, Alberto; Huse, Christian; Goldbaum, Sergio; … - 2007

developing a successful substitute for gasoline merits attention. Brazil is the only sizable economy to date to have developed a … consumers, across ethanol and gasoline at the pump. We show that the model stands up well to the empirical covariation in prices … the retail price of ethanol to that of gasoline. Of relevance to the current food-versus-fuel" debate, the outward shift …

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Taxation of Oil Products and GDP Dynamics of Oil-rich Countries

Daubanes, Julien - 2009

This article proposes a complementary explanation for why oil-rich economies have experienced a relative low GDP growth over the last decades: the proportion of taxes in the prices of petroleum products have been globally increasing for the four last decades, thus making oil revenues grow slower...

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