In der bundesdeutschen Debatte über ein wünschenswertes Finanzausgleichssystem werden Effizienzaspekte weitgehend vernachlässigt. Es läßt sich jedoch zeigen, daß Finanzausgleichsregelungen Allokationsstörungen hervorrufen. Dies wird in dieser Arbeit anhand einer theoretischen Analyse...

In der bundesdeutschen Debatte über ein wünschenswertes Finanzausgleichssystem werden Effizienzaspekte weitgehend vernachlässigt. Es läßt sich jedoch zeigen, daß Finanzausgleichsregelungen Allokationsstörungen hervorrufen. Dies wird in dieser Arbeit anhand einer theoretischen Analyse...

Germany like many other European countries subsidize commuting by granting the right to deduct commuting expenses from the income tax base. This regulation has often been changed and has regularly been under debate during the last decades. The pros (e.g. causing efficiency gains with respect to...

The objective of this paper is to examine efficiency, distributional, environmental (CO2 emissions) and spatial effects of increasing different kinds of transport subsidies discriminating between household types, travel purposes and travel modes. The effects are calculated by applying a...

Germany like many other European countries subsidize commuting by granting the right to deduct commuting expenses from the income tax base. This regulation has often been changed and has regularly been under debate during the last decades. The pros (e.g. causing efficiency gains with respect to...

The objective of this paper is to examine efficiency, distributional, environmental (CO2 emissions) and spatial effects of increasing different kinds of transport subsidies discriminating between household types, travel purposes and travel modes. The effects are calculated by applying a...

Many governments subsidize electric mobility (E-mobility) to increase the share of electric vehicles (EV) in the car fleet. This aims at reducing carbon emissions. Despite that there is not much research on the full economic costs and benefits of this measures. There are only a few Cost Benefit...

Germany like many other European countries subsidize commuting by granting the right to deduct commuting expenses from the income tax base. This regulation has often been changed and has regularly been under debate during the last decades. The pros (e.g. causing efficiency gains with respect to...