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Taxing vehicles, fuels, and road use : opportunities for improving transport tax practice
Van Dender, Kurt - 2019
This paper discusses the main external costs related to road transport and the design of taxes to manage them. It provides an overview of evolving tax practice in the European Union and the United States and identifies opportunities for better alignment of transport taxes with external costs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012135999
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Environmental innovation in Germany
Hašc̆ic̆, Ivan - 2012
This paper reviews the recent experience of Germany in encouraging innovation to reduce negative environmental impacts … transportation. The paper covers environmental and general innovation policies and the cross-cutting issue of policy co … promote advanced transportation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685842
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Projecting the fuel efficiency of conventional vehicles : The role of regulations, gasoline taxes and autonomous technical change
Tikoudis, Ioannis - 2022
The fuel efficiency of conventional private vehicles is a key input in the design of several economic and environmental policies. Reliable projections of the fuel efficiency variable can improve estimates on the future emission savings from policies promoting vehicle replacement, and on future...
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How Regressive are Mobility-Related User Fees and Gasoline Taxes?
Glaeser, Edward L.; Gorback, Caitlin S.; Poterba, James M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Pigouvian taxes and user fees can address environmental externalities and efficiently fund transportation …-tradable goods that do not require transportation. User charges for airports, subways and commuter rail are progressive, while bus …
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An assessment of the social costs and benefits of vehicle tax reform in Ireland
Ryan, Lisa; Petrov, Ivan; Kelly, Andrew; Guo, Yulu; La … - 2019
This paper presents the results of an ex post evaluation of the impacts of a vehicle tax reform in Ireland, by carrying out a full social cost benefit analysis of a vehicle tax reform that began in Ireland in 2008 and shows that whilst successful in improving the fuel economy of new passenger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180342
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Exploring the relationship between environmentally related taxes and inequality in income sources : an empirical cross-country analysis
Oueslati, Walid; Zipperer, Vera; Rousselière, Damien; … - 2016
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of the macroeconomic relationship between environmentally related taxes and inequality in income sources. The analysis also investigates whether this relationship differs between countries which have implemented environmental tax reforms (ETRs)...
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The environmental tax and subsidy reform in Mexico
Arlinghaus, Johanna; Van Dender, Kurt - 2017
In a bold policy effort, Mexico recently moved away from subsidies to transport fuels, increased tax rates on these fuels and introduced a carbon tax. This paper analyses these reforms using a broad set of criteria that consider the main practical dimensions of environmental policy design:...
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Towards consistent and effective carbon pricing in Germany?
Capozza, Ivana; Curtin, Joseph - 2012
Germany committed itself to challenging greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets to 2020 and beyond. It has …-based instruments in Germany: energy taxes, vehicle taxes and the EU Emissions Trading System. It also reviews the use of feed … Review of Germany: http://www.oecd.org/environment/environmentalcountryreviews/oecdenvironmentalperformancereviewsge rmany …
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The use of revenues from carbon pricing
Marten, Melanie; Van Dender, Kurt - 2019
The paper collects comprehensive and detailed data on what 40 OECD and G20 economies do with the revenues from carbon taxes, emissions trading systems, and excise taxes on energy use. It notes that constraints – which can take the form of political commitments or legal earmarks – on revenue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012135991
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Pass-through of temporary fuel tax reductions : evidence from Europe
Drolsbach, Chiara Patricia; Gail, Maximilian M.; Klotz, … - In: Energy policy 183 (2023), pp. 1-18
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