Die zur Jahresmitte 2009 in Kraft tretende Reform der Kraftfahrzeugsteuer, mit der die Bundesregierung klimaschutzpolitische Zielsetzungen verfolgt, sieht ei-ne kombinierte CO2- und hubraumbezogene Besteuerung für Neufahrzeuge vor. Danach soll der über 120 g/km hinausgehende CO2-Ausstoß mit 2...

Environmental taxes have been discussed as one of the main mechanisms to deal with environmental problems. Nonetheless, instruments of this type have rarely been implemented, and the adoption of new or higher environmental taxes has faced resistance in some countries. The purpose of this work is...

This paper examines the environmental effects of mineral taxes in a framework that recognizes the importance of rates and cumulative externalities and proposes an appropriate corrective tax. It concludes that mineral resources taxation should combine neutral taxes with a dynamic Pigovian type...

The paper studies the setting of optimal fiscal policy in a second-best world with environmental externalities. The optimal second-best pollution tax is shown to lie below the first-best Pigovian tax, particularly if substitution between labor and polluting intermediate inputs is easy, the labor...

This paper presents a model where an interest group gathering the polluters lobby an environmental regulator in charge of selecting an environmental policy instrument. Three policy instruments are analyzed: an emission standard, an emission tax and an Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). We show that...