This paper analyses and compares the performance of carbon taxes and capital taxes in financing public goods with positive effects on private firm productivity. It is motivated by Franks et al. (2017), who ask whether using carbon taxes could be motivated on fiscal grounds rather than by...

Infrastructure regulation has faced transitions not just in recent years, but also throughout much its existence over the last century. Among the many crucial issues in these transitions has been how to handle network effects. These can both cause monopoly and complicate the management of...

Investment decisions are usually affected by what firms perceive as government supply constraints: when a firm considers whether to increase its capital stock it takes into account possible constraints due to the lack of public productive services. Introducing this consideration in a simple...

Investments in large, long-lived, energy-intensive infrastructure investments using fossil fuels increase longer-term energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, unless the plant is shut down early or undergoes costly retrofit later. These investments will depend on expectations of retrofit costs...

Investments in large, long-lived, energy-intensive infrastructure investments using fossil fuels increase longer-term energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, unless the plant is shut down early or undergoes costly retrofit later. These investments will depend on expectations of retrofit costs...

Investments in large, long-lived, energy-intensive infrastructure investments using fossil fuels increase longer-term energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, unless the plant is shut down early or undergoes costly retrofit later. These investments will depend on expectations of retrofit costs...

Öffentliche Investitionen in Infrastrukturprojekte sind aus der politischen Diskussion nicht mehr wegzudenken, und es wird Außerordentliches von diesen Investitionen erwartet. Zuletzt wurde das durch die global aufgelegten Konjunkturprogramme deutlich, die im Zuge der Weltwirtschaftskrise...