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The Evolution of the Income Tax for Microenterprises in Romania

CUCOSEL, Constantin - In: EuroEconomica (2010) 24, pp. 5-21

During the interwar period, especially after the great economic crisis of 1929-1933, the capitalist economic conception replaced the noninterventionist state with the interventionist one. This situation is similar with our present financial and economic conditions, when the financial crisis...

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The influence of taxation on energy products price and consequences on the global economy

Nicolau, Mihaela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The dynamic of energy prices influences the entire economic activity, both at macro and micro level. Unlike other economic goods price determination, based specially on offer-demand relationship, the energy price determination is strongly influenced by the taxation policy and political factor,...

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Tax Policy; Recent Trends and Coming Challenges

Khan, Tehmina S.; Norregaard, John - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper provides an overview of the key economic factors that shape tax policy reform in many high-income countries, developing countries, and/or transition economies. The paper describes and evaluates global and regional developments with respect to tax rates and revenue ratios over the last...

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Taxes and Tradable Permits As Instruments for Controlling Pollution; Theory and Practice

Norregaard, John; Reppelin-Hill, Valérie - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper examines the relative merits of two dominant economic instruments for reducing pollution—”green” taxes and tradable permits. Theoretically, the two instruments share many similarities, and on balance, neither seems preferable to the other. In practice, however, most countries...

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Income, Energy Taxation, and the Environment: An Econometric Analysis

Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

This thesis consists of four papers: two of them deal with the relationship between consumption, energy taxation, and emissions on macro level, and two of them focus on the effects of changes in consumption and income on the environmental quality on a micro level. <p> The main objective of paper...</p>

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Energy and carbon taxes in the EU: Empirical evidence with focus on the transport sector

Kettner-Marx, Claudia; Kletzan-Slamanig, Daniela - 2018

This paper provides an overview of energy and (implicit) CO2 taxation in the EU member countries. Against the … background of the EU energy taxation directives, energy and implicit CO2 tax rates in the EU countries are discussed, focussing … be on the rise in the EU. Evidence on the economic impacts of energy and carbon taxes furthermore shows that a double …

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Modelling Consumer Demand and Household Labour Supply: Welfare Effects of Increasing Carbon Taxes

Brännlund, Runar; Nordström, Jonas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2001

The main objective of this paper is to analyse consumer response and welfare effects due to changes in energy or environmental policy. To achieve this objective we formulate and estimate an econometric model for non-durable consumer demand in Sweden that utilises micro- and macro-data. In the...

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Carbon Tax Simulations Using a Household Demand Model

Brännlund, Runar; Nordström, Jonas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 1999

The main objective of this paper is to analyse consumer response due to changes in energy or environmental policy. To achieve the objective we for-mulate and estimate an econometric model for non-durable consumer demand in Sweden that utilises micro- as well as macro-data. The micro-economic...

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Too Hot to Handle? Benefits and costs of stimulating the use of biofuels in the Swedish Heating Sector

Brännlund, Runar; Kriström, Bengt - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 1999

This paper evaluates the impact of changes in current Swedish energy taxation by analyzing a panel of approximately 150 district heating plants in Sweden. We estimate plant-specific production functions and derive the economic repercussions of the tax. We also estimate the resulting changes of...

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Household Transport Demand in a CGE-framework

Berg, Charlotte - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 37 (2007) 3, pp. 573-597

The main objective of this study is to improve the modelling of household demand for transport services in a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. The new extended model is then used for numerical calculations to test how the Swedish economy reacts to a carbon target. Special attention...

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