This study examines the relationship between train traffic and the accident risk for road users at level crossings. The marginal effect of train traffic on the accident risk can be used to derive the marginal cost per train passage that is due to level crossing accidents. Based on Swedish data...

In the existence of trade interaction, a sub-global climate change policy can generate externality, which can cause competitiveness issues for the producers in compliant regimes. However among compliant regions, a small economy also receives a significant spillins effect when a large economy...

This study examines the complex relation among environmental taxes, productive capacities, urbanization, and their collective effects on environmental quality in Africa, drawing on two decades of data from twenty African countries. It situates the study within the broader discourse on...

This paper is the first to investigate the effectiveness of fuel taxation to jointly deliver climate and health benefits in a quasi-experimental setting. Using the synthetic control method, we compare carbon and air pollutant emissions of the actual and synthetic German transport sector...

Human activity has transformed the planet at a pace and scale unprecedented in recorded history, causing irreversible damage to communities and ecosystems. Countries have focused their capacities on economic growth, with too little attention to externalities in terms of environmental quality....

Menschliche Aktivitäten haben den Planeten in einem in der Geschichte beispiellosen Tempo und Ausmaß verändert und irreversible Schäden an Gemeinschaften und Ökosystemen verursacht. Die Länder haben ihre Kapazitäten auf das Wirtschaftswachstum konzentriert und dabei den damit verbundenen...

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s largest environmental tax reform. We compare carbon and air pollutant emissions of the German transport sector and synthetic counterfactuals following the 1999 eco-tax reform, and find average reductions in external damages of...

En este trabajo evaluamos un esquema redistributivo alternativo para Uruguay. Concretamente analizamos los impactos que en términos de equidad y eficiencia tendría la sustitución del nuevo sistema de transferencias condicionadas (asignaciones familiares AFAM) y de los impuestos directos...

El presente trabajo estima el valor óptimo de un impuesto sobre los flujos de capital, que permite que los agentes privados internalicen el costo social de sus decisiones de deuda en una economía que está sujeta a restricciones financieras. Usando datos de la economía colombiana para el...

En este trabajo se emplea el algoritmo de Ivaldi-Vibes para modelar el mercado de combustibles de EE.UU. bajo el escenario hipotético en el que los subsidios a la producción de etanol fueron eliminados desde 1995 hasta 2005. En esta situación hipotética, los individuos no sólo estaban...