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Why Finance Ministers Favor Carbon Taxes, Even if They Do not Take Climate Change into Account
Franks, Max; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Lessmann, Kai - 2015
demand for public expenditures such as infrastructure investments but they are constrained by international tax competition …. We develop a multi-region model of tax competition and resource extraction to assess the fiscal incentive of imposing a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307268
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284018
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Interjurisdictional competition and the efficiency of the public sector: The triumph of the market over the state?
Rauscher, Michael - 1996
It has been argued in the literature that, interjurisdictional competition forces the public sector to increase its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275473
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The political economy of sin taxes
Haavio, Markus; Kotakorpi, Kaisa Ilona - 2009
We analyse the determination of taxes on harmful goods when consumers have self-control problems. We show that under reasonable assumptions, the socially optimal corrective tax exceeds the average distortion caused by self-control problems. Further, we analyse how individuals with self-control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274049
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Perfecting Imperfect Competition
Seißer, Goetz - 2008
This paper addresses the reduction of market failure under imperfect competition. It proposes a taxscheme that provides … profit margin the unique tax-rate it is charged on absolute profits. In theory the firm´s tax-rate would be the mark-up over … tax-condition does not seem to distort profit incentives or markets; under perfect competition the tax-rate would be zero …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298564
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The economics of credence goods: on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271236
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The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294835
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Laffer strikes again: Dynamic scoring of capital taxes
Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2010
We set up a neoclassical growth model extended by a corporate sector, an investment and finance decision of firms, and a set of taxes on capital income. We provide analytical dynamic scoring of taxes on corporate income, dividends, capital gains, other private capital income, and depreciation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289002
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How far are we from the slippery slope? The Laffer curve revisited
Trabandt, Mathias; Uhlig, Harald - 2010
We characterize the Laffer curves for labor taxation and capital income taxation quantitatively for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries by comparing the balanced growth paths of a neoclassical growth model featuring ”constant Frisch elasticity” (CFE) preferences. We derive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605220
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The Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation
Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2010
We characterize the Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation. We show how the second-best frontier which incorporates incentive constraints due to private information on productive abilities relates to the first-best frontier which takes only resource constraints into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270434