Energy subsidies account for about 7% of Ecuador's yearly public spending, or two thirds of the fiscal deficit. Removing these subsidies would yield clear economic and environmental benefits and help implement climate targets set in the Paris Agreement. However, expected adverse effects on...

Energy subsidies account for about 7% of Ecuador's yearly public spending, or two thirds of the fiscal deficit. Removing these subsidies would yield clear economic and environmental benefits and help implement climate targets set in the Paris Agreement. However, expected adverse effects on...

The recent downward trend in the international energy prices, combined with the rapid transition in the national energy mix and widespread efforts towards national energy market liberalization have challenged the mitigation potential of the global fossil-fuel subsidy reform. In this paper, we...

“Lifting or keeping the subsidy” has been a controversial issue, precisely in Egypt it has always been too “hot to touch” when it comes to the right of the unfortunate few. But this has proved for over 50 years to be a sheer myth. Billions of subsidized money has been landing in the...

Empirical researchers are used to fix a common distribution of income before tax for all tax schedules being compared. Is this realistic for accurate intertemporal, or international, comparisons when, as a matter of fact, schedules operate on different original income distributions? It is...

Nach langem Ringen und begleitet von großer öffentlicher Aufmerksamkeit ist das Gesetz zur grundlegenden Neuordnung des Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetzes nunmehr zum 1.8.2014 in Kraft getreten und löst das keine drei Jahre alte Vorgängergesetz ab. Eine grundlegende Neuordnung ist zwar nicht...

Nach der Reform ist vor der Reform. Es ist mittlerweile unbestritten, dass es nach Abschluss der Föderalis - musreform II im Jahr 2009 einen weiteren Anlauf zur Reform der bundesstaatlichen Finanzordnung geben wird. Ausgehend von der These, dass es im Bundesstaat zwangsläufig ein Geflecht an...