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Koskela, Erkki - 1999

This paper develops a model of a small open economy that produces an export good with domestic labour and imported energy and is stuck in an unemployment situation resulting from an excessive fixed net-of-tax wage rate. We study a revenue-neutral green tax reform that substitutes energy for wage...

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A Distributional Analysis of an Environmental Tax Shift

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 1998

I use data from the 1994 Consumer Expenditure Survey as well as other sources to measure the distributional impact of green tax reforms and consumption tax reforms using both annual income and lifetime income approaches to rank households. A modest tax reform in which environmental taxes equal...

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Environmental Taxes

Fullerton, Don - 2008

This chapter provides an overview of key economic issues in the use of taxation as an instrument of environmental policy in the UK. It first reviews economic arguments for using taxes and other market mechanisms in environmental policy, discusses the choice of tax base, and considers the value...

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Tax Reform and Environmental Taxation

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2005

I measure the industry impacts of an environmental tax reform where a carbon tax is used to finance full or partial corporate tax integration. I find that the industry impacts of such a reform are likely to be modest (in the sense of impacts on returns on equity)

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Rational Atrophy : The US Steel Industry

Tornell, Aaron - 1997

During the seventies and eighties the US steel industry received trade protection. However, these rents were not used to improve competitiveness. Instead, they were reflected in higher wages and a greater share of profits invested in sectors not related to steel. Moreover, the steel industry...

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China’s Industrial Policy : an Empirical Evaluation

Barwick, Panle Jia - 2019

evaluate its welfare consequences. This paper examines an important industrial policy in China in the 2000s, aiming to propel … model of firm entry, exit, investment, and production, we find that the scale of the policy was massive and boosted China …

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Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock?

Bombardini, Matilde - 2020

In the two decades straddling China's WTO accession, the China Shock, i.e. the rapid trade integration of China in the … about the extent of China Shock's repercussions in their district at the time when they voted on China's Normal Trade … U.S. House of Representatives on China's Normal Trade Relations status, we formally test what information politicians …

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On the persistence of the China shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

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The Long-Term Effects of Industrial Policy

Choi, Jaedo; Levchenko, Andrei A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper provides causal evidence of the impact of industrial policy on firms' long-term performance and quantifies industrial policy's long-term welfare effects. Using a natural experiment and unique historical data during the Heavy and Chemical Industry (HCI) Drive in South Korea, we find...

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How Does State-Level Carbon Pricing in the United States Affect Industrial Competitiveness?

Casey, Brendan J. - 2020

Pricing carbon emissions from a jurisdiction could harm the competitiveness of local firms, causing the leakage of emissions and economic activity to other regions. Past research concentrated on national carbon prices, but the impacts of subnational carbon prices could be more severe due to the...

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