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The efficient combination of taxes on fuel and vehicles

Bjertnæs, Geir H. M. - 2017

A tax on fuel combined with tax-exemptions or subsidies for purchase of fuel-efficient vehicles is implemented in many countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other negative externalities from road traffic. This study, however, shows that a tax on fuel should be combined with heavier...

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Efficient taxation of fuel and road use

Bjertnæs, Geir H. M. - 2019

This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian rate due to such avoidance. The current US tax rate...

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Is carbon tax truly more salient? : evidence from fuel tourism at the France-Germany border

Bonnet, Odran; Fize, Etienne; Loisel, Tristan; Wilner, … - 2024

This paper exploits the introduction of the German carbon tax in 2021 as well as excise tax rebates on fuel in both France and Germany, consecutive to the 2022 oil crisis, to infer how fuel tourism responds to changes in relative prices. Based on French high-frequency transaction-level data...

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Trimmed mean group estimation of average treatment effects in ultra short T panels under correlated heterogeneity

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yang, Liying - 2023

if the time dimension of the panel is as small as the number of its regressors. Extensions to panels with time effects …

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Bootstrap panel Granger-causality between government budget and external deficits for the EU

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2009

period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based … effective real exchange rate in the SUR system does not substantially alter the results. -- Panel causality tests ; budget …

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Long-run determinants of sovereign yields

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2010

We study sovereign bond yields in OECD countries with a dynamic panel by checking for cross-section dependence …; assessing panel cointegration; and estimating panel error-correction models. The results show that markets consider budgetary … and external imbalances and inflation as relevant determinants of sovereign yields. -- long-term yields ; panel …

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Donor ideology and types of foreign aid

Brech, Viktor; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960]2009 and distinguish between multilateral and bilateral aid, grants and loans, recipient characteristics such as income and political institutions,...

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Do labor market institutions influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis

Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period …

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Wage indexation and the monetary policy regime

De Schryder, Selien; Peersman, Gert; Wauters, Joris - 2014

We estimate a New Keynesian wage Phillips curve for a panel of 24 OECD countries, and allow the degree of wage …

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Partisan politics : the empirical evidence from OECD panel studies

Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

This paper describes the empirical evidence on partisan politics in OECD panel studies. I elaborate on the research …. Discussing about 100 panel data studies, the results indicate that leftwing and rightwing governments pursued different economic …

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