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Green technology and optimal emissions taxation

Macdonald, Stuart; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna - 2014

We examine the impact of an optimal emissions tax on research and development of emission reducing green technology (E-R&D) in the presence of R&D spillovers. We show that the size and effectiveness of the optimal emissions tax depends on the type of the R&D spillover: input or output spillover....

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Optimal environmental policy with network effects : will Pigovian taxation lead to excess inertia?

Greaker, Mads; Midttømme, Kristoffer - 2014

We study a dynamic model with two competing durable goods; one dirty, the other clean. Due to network effects a consumer who adopts the dirty good today will increase the incentive future consumers have to adopt the dirty good. Thus, a consumer who chooses the dirty good, in a sense causes more...

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Taxing pollution : agglomeration and welfare consequences

Berliant, Marcus C.; Peng, Shin Kun; Wang, Ping - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 55 (2014) 3, pp. 665-704

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Ecological tax reform and unemployment : competition and innovation issues in the double dividend debate

Budzinski, Oliver - 2002

advantage) has recently become a widely discussed topic both in real-world economic policy and in economic theory. The subject … specific circumstances (e.g. involuntary unemployment and sub-optimal initial tax system). However, there is a considerable … number of unsuitable assumptions which create doubt when questioning how appropriate the use of optimal taxation theory is …

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Second-best pollution taxes : revisited and revised

Kampas, Athanasios; Horan, Richard D. - In: Environmental economics and policy studies 18 (2016) 4, pp. 577-597

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Externalities in risky resource markets : optimal taxes, leakage and divestment : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics, October 2015

Habermacher, Florian - 2016

We consider a global externality of resource use, with the example of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. A region concerned about climate change may reduce its fuel deposit offer, reduce fuel consumption, and withdraw investments into global fuel extraction. We study leakage rates and...

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Optimal tax policies with private-public clean-up, cross-border pollution and capital mobility

Hadjiyiannis, Costas; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Michael, … - 2002

This paper builds a model of a region with two non-identical countries, cross-border pollution and free movements of goods and capital within the region. Pollution reduces welfare and there is simultaneous private and public pollution abatement. Public pollution abatement is financed with the...

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Abatement innovation in a cournot oligopoly : emission versus output tax incentives

Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C. D. - 2016

This study compares energy and emission taxes used to control pollution and provide incentives for the adoption of an advanced abatement technology in a Cournot oligopoly. We examine multistage games where the government may intervene in order to maximize social welfare by setting an...

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Does the adverse announcement effect of climate policy matter? : a dynamic general equilibrium analysis

Riekhof, Marie-Catherine; Bröcker, Johannes - 2016 - This version: August 2016

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The emission taxes refunding scheme based on output subsidies with an exogenous abatement target

Li, Changsheng; Fan, Ying; Zhu, Lei - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 52 (2016) 4/6, pp. 1385-1394

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