Seit 2011 werden Flugreisen von inländischen Standorten mittels der Luftverkehrsteuer belastet. Im DSi-kompakt Nr. 1 wird erläutert, warum die Luftverkehrsteuer ihre auferlegten Ziele nicht erreichen kann. So ist sie weder zur Sicherung ausreichender Steuereinnahmen geeignet noch mit einer...

We use a model of domestic and international tourist numbers and flows to estimate the impact of the recent and proposed changes in the Air Passenger Duty (APD) of the United Kingdom. We find that the recent doubling of the APD has the perverse effect of increasing carbon dioxide emissions,...

A simulation model of international tourist flows is used to estimate the impact of a carbon tax on aviation fuel. The effect of the tax on travel behaviour is small: A global $1000/tC would change travel behaviour to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from international aviation by 0.8%. This is...

The tax incidence is central to the effectiveness of taxation. In this paper, I examine the pass-through rate of an air passenger tax to airfares. Additionally, I analyse its impact on passenger numbers, air transport capacity, and the interaction with supply and demand elasticity. For...