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Turner, Sidney C. - 2012

A small but growing body of empirical research underscores the relationship between a city's status as a political capital and its status within an urban hierarchy. Both theoretical and empirical work has attributed this to the agglomeration effects of government activity in the capital. The...

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Subsidy Regulation in WTO Law : Some Implications for Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy

Marhold, Anna-Alexandra - 2017

This contribution discusses WTO subsidies disciplines in the context of the energy sector. After laying out the relevant disciplines, it will discuss the paradox of WTO law with respect to subsidies towards fossil fuels vis-à-vis those towards renewable energy. It is clear that subsidies on...

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Energy and Fossil Fuels as a Topic of WTO Accession Protocols

Marhold, Anna-Alexandra - 2018

This contribution seeks to analyse and compare WTO Accession Protocols, particularly the interpretations given relevant commitments made in them regarding energy and fossil fuels. After first providing an outline of the accession process and its importance for the natural resources and energy...

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform in the WTO : Options for Constraining Dual Pricing in the Multilateral Trading System

Marhold, Anna-Alexandra - 2018

Dual pricing is a practice through which resource-endowed states sell their energy resources at significantly lower prices on the domestic market, as compared to the price on the export market. Dual pricing could be considered an environmentally harmful fossil fuel subsidy: States that maintain...

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Supporting carbon taxes : the role of fairness

Sommer, Stephan; Mattauch, Linus; Pahle, Michael - 2020

pro-environment and trust the government. Second, when restricted to options for direct revenue redistribution, Germans …

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Your place in the world relative income and global inequality

Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021

There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of...

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Carbon pricing: swift introduction of a climate dividend needed, reduce at higher incomes

Bach, Stefan; Hamburg, Mark; Meemken, Simon; Merker, Marlene - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 14 (2024) 43/44, pp. 251-259

With the transition from the German national emissions trading system to the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS2) from 2027, final consumer prices for fossil motor and heating fuels are likely to rise significantly. This increase will affect low-income households more noticeably, as they...

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Why do preferences for redistribution differ across countries? : an experimental analysis

Grimalda, Gianluca; Farina, Francesco; Conte, Anna; … - 2022 - This draft: January 2023

We test for different theories purporting to explain cross-country differences in income redistribution through … standardized experimental choices. US Americans and Italians demand less redistribution than Norwegians and Germans, regardless of … overconfidence by US Americans and Italians further reduces their demand for redistribution under uncertainty. The "Prospect of …

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Climate Change, Strict Pareto Improvements in Welfare and Multilateral Income Transfers

Kotsogiannis, Christos - 2018

This paper explores the role of multilateral transfers in achieving strict Pareto improvements in welfare, focusing on identifying conditions under which their use is warranted when carbon prices differ internationally and there are impediments to international trade. Using a general equilibrium...

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Changes in income distribution and the role of tax-benefit policy during the great recession : an international perspective

Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - 2013

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear...

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