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Ökosteuer hat zu geringerer Umweltbelastung des Verkehrs beigetragen
Steiner, Viktor; Cludius, Johanna - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 13/14, pp. 2-7
Allein durch die ökologische Steuerreform sind die Preise für Benzin und Diesel zwischen 1998 und 2003 in Deutschland … fiskalischen Ziel auch einen Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Reduktion des Verkehrsaufkommens der privaten Haushalte in Deutschland, somit … dieser Fragen setzt die Kenntnis der Preiselastizität der Verkehrsnachfrage in Deutschland voraus, für die bisher kaum …
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Diesel fuel and passenger cars receive preferential tax treatment in Europe : reform of taxation needed in Germany
Kunert, Uwe - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 32, pp. 289-298
Duties and taxes on cars are an important source of revenue for European governments and the tax systems are also designed with the goal of achieving environmental policy objectives. A systematic and quantitative comparison of passenger car taxation in 30 European countries shows significant...
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Who pays for higher carbon prices? : illustration for Lithuania and a research agenda
Immervoll, Herwig; Linden, Jules; O'Donogue, Cathal; … - 2023
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Who pays for higher carbon prices? : Illustration for Lithuania and a research agenda
Immervoll, Herwig - 2023
This paper lays out an approach, and a research agenda, for assessing the impact of carbon pricing on household budgets. It relies on a rich set of available data and policy models and combines them in a way that is informative for mapping the gains and losses at the household level in the short...
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Who Pays for Higher Carbon Prices? Illustration for Lithuania and a Research Agenda
Immervoll, Herwig; Linden, Jules; O'Donoghue, Cathal; … - 2023
This paper lays out an approach, and a research agenda, for assessing the impact of carbon pricing on household budgets, and of possible compensatory government transfers that can be financed through carbon-tax revenues. It relies on a rich set of available data and policy models and combines...
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Modelling electric vehicles as an abatement technology in a hybrid CGE model
Schmelzer, Stefan; Miess, Michael; Scasny, Milan; … - 2018
We present a novel methodology to quantify the social costs and benefits (net social costs) of electric vehicles as an endogenous, demand-driven abatement technology in a general equilibrium framework. This new costing approach relates general equilibrium effects resulting from an increased...
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The incidence of the European Union Emissions Trading System and the role of revenue recycling : empirical evidence from combined industry- and household-level data
Beznoska, Martin; Cludius, Johanna; Steiner, Viktor - 2012
We calculate the expected incidence of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) using industry and household-level data. By combining data on direct CO2 emissions by production sector from the German Environmental Account with the German Input-Output Accounts, we calculate the CO2...
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The Incidence of the European Union Emissions Trading System and the Role of Revenue Recycling : Empirical Evidence from Combined Industry- and Household-Level Data
Beznoska, Martin - 2012
We calculate the expected incidence of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) using industry and household-level data. By combining data on direct CO2 emissions by production sector from the German Environmental Account with the German Input-Output Accounts, we calculate the CO2...
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The Simple Economics of Motor Vehicle Pollution : A Case for Fuel Tax
Montag, Josef - 2017
The volume of pollution produced by an automobile is determined by driver's behavior along three margins: (i) vehicle selection, (ii) kilometers driven, and (iii) on-road fuel economy. The first two margins have been studied extensively, however the third has received scant attention. How...
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Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change
Kaplow, Louis - 2010
This essay revisits the question of instrument choice for the regulation of externalities in the context of climate change. The central point is that the Pigouvian prescription to equate marginal control costs with the expected marginal benefits of damage reduction should guide the design of...
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