Growing populations and economies have increased the public's awareness that the world's environmental resources are finite. The issues of global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer have given universal significance to what were once local and regional pollution problems. What is...

Gerhard Scherhorn ist Ordinarius des in Deutschland einzigen Lehrstuhls für Konsumtheorie und Verbraucherpolitik an der Universität Hohenheim. Aus Anlaß seiner Emeritierung im Frühjahr 1998 haben ihm seine Schülerinnen und Schüler diese Schrift gewidmet. -- In den Arbeiten von Gerhard...

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...

The main aim of this article is to discusses theoretical issues regarding the use of carbon taxes in climate policy. The issues include inter alia: the definition of carbon and CO2 taxes, the objectives of these instruments and the tax design (the point at which the tax is levied, tax rates, tax...