"This book provides a wealth of information and a critically required framework for sustainable automobile policy development in major Asian countries. It also gives a wide ranging policy options, ranging from technological and institutional solutions to automobile emission problems, based on...

Die staatlichen Aktivitäten haben vielfältige Konsequenzen auf die privaten Haushalte. Häufig bleiben die finanziellen Effekte staatlichen Handelns jedoch im Dunkeln. Für den Gebietsstand der Bundesrepublik Deutschland nach 1990 existiert kein empirisches Mikrosimulationsmodell, das die...

Conventional wisdom dictates that those goods which are said to cause harm or impose costs on society deserve a special tax. For centuries, governments have levied these "sin taxes" on alcohol and tobacco, but the list of taxable sins has now grown to include soda and marijuana, with calls to...