A tax on fuel combined with tax exemptions or subsidies for fuel-efficient vehicles is implemented in many countries to fulfill the Paris agreement and to curb mileage-related externalities from road traffic. The present study shows that a tax on fuel should be combined with heavier taxation of...

The article analyses the implications of reduced subsidies for electric cars in Germany, to be implemented 2023. In addition to high electricity price increases, rising costs for lithium-ion batteries habe cut into the incentive and will lead to decreasing sales of electric vehicles in the...

In December 2022, the German Pension Insurance announced an estimated surplus of €2.1 billion for the past year. President Roßbach partly explained this balance was due to the 'Corona Pandemic, which has led to an increase in mortality, especially among older people'. Here, the author takes a...

In der Januarausgabe 2023 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz mit dem Titel 'Dürrezeit für das Elektroauto steht bevor' von Ferdinand Dudenhöffer und Helena Wisbert. Robert Seiler und Dieter Wermuth vertreten in einer Replik eine andere Auffassung, im Anschluss erläutern...

We evaluate German purchase subsidies for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) using data on new vehicle registrations in Germany during 2015-2022. We account for confounding time trends and interacting EU-level CO2 standards using neighboring countries...

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 around...

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of car scrappage schemes implemented in the European Union (EU) during the economic crisis of 2009. The study uses a synthetic control variable and a difference-in-differences method to evaluate these policies. Using monthly data on new passenger...

This paper investigates second-best congestion pricing in a monocentric city characterized by distortionary, rigid regulatory mechanisms in the housing market (building height restrictions, zoning and property taxation). The Pigouvian toll is shown to retain its optimality under any setting with...