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City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2020
This paper develops a model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when key activities in the city are associated with emissions that harm consumers. In contrast to extant research, our model is fully micro-founded with respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827112
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Trade, Leakage, and the Design of a Carbon Tax
Weisbach, David A.; Kortum, Samuel S.; Wang, Michael; … - 2022
Climate policies vary widely across countries, with some countries imposing stringent emissions policies and others doing very little. When climate policies vary across countries, energy-intensive industries have an incentive to relocate to places with few or no emissions restrictions, an effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079652
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Pricing for a Cooler Planet : An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Taxing Carbon
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021
Finland introduced the planet's first carbon tax in 1990 to experiment with, to most economists, the best policy to reverse carbon emissions. I estimate the causal effect of taxing carbon on Finnish emissions using the Synthetic Control Approach. The results suggest that taxing carbon reduces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219618
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Kantians Defy the Economists’ Mantra of Uniform Pigovian Emissions Taxes
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rudiger - 2021
This paper analyzes the efficient emissions taxation in economies with individuals who are morally motivated to reduce their emissions footprint. They are heterogenous with respect to their morality and their consumption preferences. We distinguish between the concepts of moral and conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314813
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Taxes and the financial structure of German inward FDI
Ramb, Fred; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2004
tax rate of the German affiliate. From our study of a panel of more than 8,000 non-financial affiliates in Germany, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261101
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Evaluating the German inventory cycle : using data from the Ifo business survey
Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2004
Inventory fluctuations are an important phenomenon in business cycles. However, the preliminary data on inventory investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose the current stance of the inventory cycle. The Ifo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261202
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Drifting together or falling apart? : The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany
Colavecchio, Roberta; Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael - 2005
The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261325
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Efficient revenue sharing and upper level governments : theory and application to Germany
Büttner, Thiess; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Schwager, Robert - 2006
in Germany. The results suggest that attempts of state level governments to extract fiscal resources from the local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261409
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Was Germany ever united?: evidence from intra- and international trade 1885 - 1933
Wolf, Nikolaus - 2008
When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of … about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885-1933, I explore the … internal fragmentation resulted from cultural heterogeneity, from administrative borders within Germany, and from geographical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264457
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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266077