We study the connection between corporate taxation and carbon emissions in the US. Counter to optimal taxation of negative externalities, we find that dirty firms pay lower profit taxes. This relationship is driven by dirty firms benefiting disproportionately more from the tax shield of debt,...

Dieser Beitrag quantifiziert die Auswirkungen einer ökologischen Steuerreform nach einem Vorschlag von Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen auf Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Branchen aus einzelwirtschaftlicher Sicht. Dabei werden die wichtigsten Einflußfaktoren isoliert und in ihrer Wirkung analysiert....

This paper shows that corporate tax provisions can lead to different effective tax rates (ETRs) if there is a capital cost-intensive and a variable cost-intensive way of producing the same output. It develops a framework for analysing sources of the difference in ETRs and adapts existing models...

The revenues from a carbon tax could help finance lower corporate tax rates, extending business tax preferences, or other corporate tax reforms. Such a tax swap would reduce the environmental risks of carbon emissions and improve the efficiency of America’s corporate tax system. But it would...

Understanding the relationship between international trade and CO2 emissions is crucial for designing appropriate measures to address climate change. This article focuses on CO2 emissions as one of the trade flow determinants of the EU countries, along with other factors including remoteness,...

While there is some hope that the ongoing climate change negotiations will soon come up with concrete, time scheduled and binding emission reduction commitments, the question of how to achieve these targets is still unsolved. The objective of this paper is to analyse alternative settings of an...